Merchants of Debt: A Collaboration (Eula Biss & Maryann Bylander)
When:
Thursday, January 12, 2017
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, Room #2351 (Kaplan Humanities Institute), 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact:
Jill Mannor
(847) 467-3970
Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Eula Biss (English/Northwestern) and Maryann Bylander (Sociology/Lewis & Clark College).
Drawn from Professor Bylander's research in Cambodia on micro-lending practices and threading in references to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice about how the intent of a loan might shape its terms, Biss and Bylander will reflect on debt, predatory lending, and their collaborative process of researching and writing a non-fiction essay for a general audience.
This talk is co-presented by the Center for the Writing Arts, the Department of English, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities as part of the Institute's 2016-2017 Debt Dialogue Series.