Annette Damayanti Lienau, assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will present “Muslim ‘Racialization’ and the Conceptual Limits of the Arabophone: Translational Disjunctures and Comparative Horizons across the Global South,” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University park campus.

Ethan Knapp, associate professor in the Department of English at Ohio State, will present “Revisiting the Rising of 1381: Allegory and Politics in the Late 14th Century” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Sam Tenorio, a postdoctoral fellow with the Africana Research Center at Penn State, will present “Pip's Jumps: Black Politics and White Authorities in Melville's Moby Dick” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, in 102 Kern Building at University Park.

Jill Stockwell, director of the Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton University, will present “A Shared Longing: Rewriting Nazim Hikmet in Turkish and Turkish-German Literature, 1963-2017” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Mark Rifkin, director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will present “Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Tribal Identity” at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 15 in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.