Please join us for the Edmund S. and Nathalie Rumowicz Annual Lecture 2019: 

Archipelagic Thinking and the Borderwaters: A US Eccentric View

By Brian Russell Roberts, Associate Professor of  English and Director of American Studies, Brigham Young University

Thursday, April 25, 4-6PM • Hoffman Room, Swan Hall

Brian Russell Roberts will join us to discuss his current book project. He is the author of Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era (2013), co-editor of Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference (2016), collaborator of a translation, Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories (2018), a book of short stories by Indonesian writer Sitor Situmorang, and co-editor of Archipelagic American Studies (2017) a volume of essays that departs from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagos, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans.

Free and open to the public.  Refreshments served.

Lecture to commence immediately after the awards ceremony for the winners of the Edmund S. and NathalieRumowicz Undergraduate Maritime Essay Contest.