Calendar of Events - 2006/2007
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September
Friday, September 11
Seth Lerer
"Commerce Court, and Cloister: the Literatures of Medieval Childhood"
6191 H.C. White, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 12
Peter Matthiessen
"The
Threat to Indigeous People and Our Ice Age Wildlife: Travels on the North Slope of Alaska."
State Historical Museum , 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 14
Roundtable discussion
"Global Interiors"
Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 21
Timothy Glenn
Workshop
"'I suppose we would not act at all': Irony and Land Claim in Louise Erdrich's Four Souls. "
Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
October
Thursday, October 5
Roland Murray
The Americanist Speakers and Colloquium Series
Title TBA
6191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 12
Taryn Okum
Workshop
"Henry Green and the Perspective of the Non-Combatant"
Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 24
Forest Kyle
"Keats' Weakness"
Middle Modernity Colloquia
6191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
November
Thursday, November 2
Professor Paula Geyh
"Urban Interiority"
6191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Friday, November 3rd
Professor Paula Geyh
Roundtable with graduate students
"Postmodernism and the City"
7101 H.C. White, 11:00 a.m.
Co-sponsored by the Americanist Literature and Culture Research Circle.
Moderator: Brian Williams.
Monday, Novemeber 5
James Buzard - Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Autoethnography, Narrative, Interruption"
Middle Modernity Colloquia
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 9
Roundtable
"Contemporary LIterature and Pedagogy"
Organizer: Mitch Nakaue
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Monday, November 27
Jonathan Franzen
Public Reading
State Historical Society Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 30
Provessor Jed Etsy
"Empire of Youth: the Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity"
Co-sponsored by the Modernisms/Modernity Colloquium,
the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies
program, the Department of History (pending), and the Cosmopolitan
Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop
Organizer: Keving Piper
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Friday, December 1
Professor Jed Esty
Roundtable with graduate students
"Postmodernism and the City"
7101 H.C. White, 12:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Modernisms/Modernity Colloquium,
the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies program, the Department of History (pending), and the Cosmopolitan Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop Moderator: Mitch Nakaue
the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies program, the Department of History (pending), and the Cosmopolitan Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop Moderator: Mitch Nakaue
Thursday, December 14
Tim Glen
Workshop
"Biological Thresholds of Modernity: Camp Life as Critical Ontology of the Present in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go."
Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
January
Thursday, January 25
Mitch Nakaue
Workshop
"A House where the Father's never in': The Butcher Boy and Other (Irish) Myths."
Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
Organizer: Tim Glenn
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
February
Thursday, February 8
Professor James English
"UK America: Centers of Power and the Problems of Translation in the Empire of Global English" Co-sponsored by
the Americanist Literature and Culture Research Circle, the Border and
Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies program, and
the Cosmopolitan Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop Organizer: Taryn Okuma 6191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
March
Thursday, March 1Forum:
"Melodrama and Film Narrative "
Roundtable discussion
Organizers: Amy Johnson and Krista Kaufmann 7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 8
Amy Johnson
Workshop
"French Decadence, English Aestheticism: Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot" Organizer: Tim Glenn Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 15
Seth Koven - Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"The Match Girl and the Heiress: Love, Friendship, and Social Justice in Early Twentieth-Century Britain"
Middle Modernity Colloquia
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 22
Christopher Reed
"Japonisme and Occidentalism"
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 22
Fleda Brown and Betsy Andrews
Public Reading
6191 H.C. White, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 29
Professor Diana Fuss, Princeton University
Roundtable with graduate students
"Postmodernism and the City"
7191 H.C. White, 12:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Middle Modernity Group, the Americanist Literature and Culture Research Circle, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Women's Studies Program
Moderator: Kim Rostan
Thursday, March 29
Diana Fuss - Professor of English. Princeton University
"Literary Corpses"
Middle Modernity Colloquia
Co-sponsored by the Middle Modernity Group, the Americanist Literature and Culture Research Circle, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Women's Studies Program Organizer: Taryn Okuma
6191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
April
Thursday, April 26
Debora Epstein Nord
"Dickens's Other Jew: Riah, London Caricature, and Conversion"
Middle Modernity Colloquia
7191 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26
Krista Kauffmann
Workshop "Visualizing Britain"
Organizer: Tim Glenn Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
May
Thursday, May 10
Thom Dancer
Workshop
"Ian McEwan's Modesty: The Limits of Fiction in Atonement's Ends."
Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture Series
7101 H.C. White, 4:00 p.m.
Professor Michael Bernard-Donals - Chair
Professor Jane Zuengler - Associate Chair
Professor Jacques Lezra - Director of Graduate
Studies
Professor Sherry Reames - Undergraduate Director
