Red Talks Season 5

2024 Fall Red Talk

The University in Deep Time and the Common Good Now  

With Professor Charles Tung, PhD

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm | Pigott Auditorium

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About Charles Tung, PhD

Charles M. Tung is a Professor of English at Seattle University, where he  teaches courses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, temporal  scale, and representations of racial anachronism.  His book Modernism and  Time Machines (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) connects the obsession with time in modernist literature and art to the rise of time machine narratives and alternate history fantasies.  His work on timescales and modernity has appeared in Modernism and the Anthropocene, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology, Timescales: Ecological Temporalities across Disciplines, Time and Literature, ASAP/Journal, and Modernism/Modernity; new work on the datafication of race and fantasies of transracial transfer is forthcoming in Techno-Orientalism, Volume 2.  He was the principal investigator on a three-year grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State to host the Study of the US Institute (SUSI) on Contemporary American Literature, and is currently the principal investigator on the SUSI on US Culture, Identity, and Society.  He is the co-principal investigator on a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Race, Racialization, and Resistance. 

RED TALKS SEASON FIVE

The theme for Red Talks Season Five is Educating for an Inclusive Democracy.  This theme offers a forum to focus attention on the role of education in fostering civic engagement, cultivating respect for diverse perspectives, and embracing our shared humanity.