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<\/a>Formally known as the Emily Carroll \u201999 Carleton English Guest Lecture,<\/em><\/strong> this college event is\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>funded by the King Family Charitable Lead Trust in honor of the positive experiences of Emily Carleton \u201999 at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, and also her graduation from the institution. This fund will, at the discretion of the English department, support guest lecturers on campus for the benefit of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students and faculty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n

For more information on this year’s lecture, click here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. D. Vance Smith is a scholar whose work focuses on African and decolonial literature and theory, the history of anthropology, ecocriticism, and medieval philosophy and literature, and their intersections. His 2020 book Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2002) is the third book in a series examining the medieval limit experience\u2014the philosophy and literature of beginnings, middles, and ends. The first, The Book of the Incipit<\/em>, concerns beginnings, and the second, Arts of Possession<\/em>, examines the concept of dwelling in medieval romance and economic theory and practice. His most recent book, Atlas\u2019s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe, <\/em>will be published by the University of Chicago Press in November. Atlas\u2019s Bones<\/em> is an intellectual history about 1) the classical and medieval production of knowledges in Africa, and 2) the imposition of medieval structures of knowledge and governance on African colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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