FIRE Speaker Series. “Tears Over Fallen Hungary”: Transnational Questions of Region and Belonging

From the venue:

Gina Caison, the Kenneth M. England Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University, explores the intertwined histories of Hungary and the southern United States in terms of region, race, and belonging within literary and cultural contexts. Starting with Lajos Kossuth’s 19th-century visit to the U.S. and extending through the 1950s events like the Hungarian Revolution and southern desegregation, Caison examines how white southerners appropriated Hungarian causes for their political narratives and how Hungarians related U.S. events to their own political struggles. Caison, who served as president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature from 2020-22 and was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest during the 2020-21 academic year, is an acclaimed author. Her notable works include Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies (2018), which won the 2019 C. Hugh Holman Award, and her latest book, Erosion: American Environments & the Anxiety of Disappearance (2024). Learn more.

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Free Food
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• Atlanta Campus