The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a lecture titled “9/11 Chronomania: Terror and the Temporal Imagination” Friday, Sept. 11, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Justin Neuman, assistant professor of English at Yale University, will address the ways 9/11 altered time consciousness by tracking the rhetoric of temporality in The 9/11 Commission Report, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Jess Walter’s The Zero.
Beginning with the lexicon of the war on terror, including the use of words such as “the homeland,” “preemption” and “fundamentalism” and the name-date “9/11,” this talk will consider the obsession with time and temporal disruption that characterizes representations of 9/11 across a variety of media forms.
The Baker-Nord Center’s Religion and Secularium Across the Humanities seminar group will sponsor this event.
This event is free and open to the public. To register, visit humanities.case.edu/wpgforms/registration-911-chronomania/.