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Tomorrow, Dr. Qadir will be giving short talk as part of the OII hosted ​FIRE Lecture series (w/ co-panelist Dr. Ghulam Nadri, an economic historian). Each speaker has 15 minutes, leaving room for ample conversation with audiences.

Supported by a 2025 grant, Dr. Qadir traveled to Kenya and Qatar last summer as part of her monograph research on cultural histories of Indian Ocean slavery and capitalism. She'll be speaking about how literary and cultural studies scholars engage the museum space for the study of narrative and historical memory.

FIRE Lecture: Society and Capitalism Across the Indian Ocean Discover unique opportunities at! Find and attend events, browse and join organizations, and showcase your involvement.

Last Fall 2025, English lecturer Anna Barattin turned downtown Atlanta into an immersive research lab for writing! Students in her Advanced Composition (English 1103) course explored the city through walking, observation, and multimodal ethnography. By grounding their writing in place-based inquiry, they transformed abstract ideas into impactful, lived experiences. Read CETLOE's recent interview with Barattin here: https://t.gsu.edu/4qYz8Af

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If you’re free on Friday, check out this showcase organized and hosted by student interns who spent this semester putting their writing and communication skills to work learning the business of arts & entertainment promotion at the Masquerade!

Dec. 6 | 7 pm | Purgatory | $10 cover/$5 tarot readings

Masquerade is just a 5 minute walk from campus! Come support our majors in the internship program and celebrate the end of the semester!

Attn. GTAs: You are invited to join us for this semester’s last meeting of the Pedagogy Reading Group this Friday, 11/14, at 11 am, in person, in the 24th floor conference room.

During this week’s meeting, we’ll be covering selected essays from a special issue of the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, titled “Teaching Beyond Dread.”

Check your email for more details. Hope to see you there!

The weather outside is frightful, so come spread some pre-holiday cheer with the GEA at our Winter Read Book Swap/Donate and Bake Sale:

Tuesday December 9
12pm-1pm
Troy Moore Library, 25 Park Place 23rd Floor

Free hot beverages! Baked goods for sale; bring your unwanted books for swapping or donation. Proceeds will support the GEA’s 2026 New Voices conference.

Anyone who would like to donate homemade baked goods for the bake sale, please contact Marian Russell directly for coordinating: [email protected].

And look for our CFP for the 2026 GEA New Voices Conference, February 19-20, 2026. This year’s theme is “The Border Is a Sentence: Writing Across Diaspora, Empire, and Erasure”- inviting creative and critical work that investigates the boundaries between language, nation, and identity.

We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation! Majors and prospective majors at all levels can benefit.