English Department Events Calendar

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			Cliff Mak Mock Job Talk : "The White Man's Fable: Virtuosic Empire and Kipling." 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge	CTL Workshops: Rita Copeland, “Teaching Classical Reception.” 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Claudia Cohen Hall 251 Candidate Talk 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401	Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Grad Center, 2nd floor conference room
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	Mod/Con: A welcome back discussion: Adorno, Sartre and the politics of art and literature 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Grad Lounge Material Texts: Hannah Marcus (Harvard): “Censoring Medicine: Processes of Expurgation, Forgetting, and Remembering in Early Modern Italy” 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Professor Herman Beavers reading at the Free Library of Philadelphia 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)	Dianne Mitchell Mock Job Talk 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM English Department Grad Lounge Candidate Talk (Digital Humanities) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401	Cinema and Media Studies: Julio Sebastián Figueroa, “A Planetary Scale of Memory: Geontology, Deep Time and the Documentary in Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button by Patricio Guzmán.” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH 330 Premodern Studies: Patricia Dailey (Columbia University) “Feeling Backward: Deor’s Poetics of Recall.” 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330	Candidate Talk 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401 ResVic: Jesse Molesworth (Indiana) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBH Graduate Lounge 330	Gen/Sex, Latitudes: Gen/Sex, Latitudes, Alice Paul Center, LGBT Center: Trish Salah, “Trans Literatures: Notes Towards Their Emergence.” 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk) - note updated location
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	Material Texts: Michael Witmore (Folger) 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Kislak Center, 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library	Disability Studies: David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, talk: "The Biopolitics of Disability: Alternative Ethical Maps of Living" 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Grad Lounge 330 Candidate Talk (Digital Humanities) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM FBH 401	Faculty Meeting 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge	Workshop against Sexual Violence and Harassment 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett faculty lounge (FBH 135) ResVic: Hyeuk Kyu Joo (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBh Graduate Lounge 330 Disability Studies, Gen/Sex: Jasbir Puar's "Bodies with new Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled" (with Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge	Gen/Sex: Queer Internet Studies Workshop (All day) Institute for Contemporary Art (http://icaphila.org)
Admissions Meeting 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
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	CTL Workshop: Designing Creative Assignments for Undergraduate Classes with Julia Bloch and Orchid Tierney. 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM FBH Grad Lounge Material Texts: Rita Copeland, "An Emotional Anthology of Style: Glasgow Hunterian MS V.8.14." 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Graduate Revision Workshop: Zach Fruit discusses "A General Drama of Pain”: Global Unemployment in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge." 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge GEA Workshop: Information Management 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, 330 English UAB Student-Faculty Tea with Jean-Michel Rabaté and Pearl Brilmyer 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM FBH Faculty Lounge 135 Kelly Writers House: Anna Holmes, Salamishah Tillet and Julia Bloch, “Feminist Journalism Now 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Arts Cafe	Lunch in honor of Non-Standing Faculty and Lecturers in English 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge Cinema and Media Studies: Karen Redrobe, Peter Decherney, Meta Mazaj and Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve, “And the Oscar Goes To...” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Amado Recital Hall CTL Workshops: Najnin Islam, “Teaching an Undergraduate Research Seminar.” 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM CTL/OLI Seminar Room, 134 Van Pelt Library Premodern Studies: Richard Rambuss (Brown University) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330		Premodern Studies: The Futures of Medieval Historiography (All day) Kislak Center on the 6th floor of Van Pelt
GEA Workshop on 50-Book Exams 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM FBH Faculty Lounge Disability Studies: Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), work-in-progress: “Gestures of Inclusion: What’s a Deaf Literary Canon?” 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM FBH 330 Grad Lounge GEA Meeting 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM FBH 330
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	Material Texts: Georgianna Ziegler (Folger), "Greatness in Small Things: the Miniature Books of Esther Inglis" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	CTL Workshop: Rethinking Pedagogy in the Contemporary Moment with Prof. Ania Loomba. 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM FBH Faculty Lounge "English and the Digital Humanities." 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Van Pelt 124 Faculty Meeting 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM FBH Faculty Lounge AmLit: Brian Hochman (Georgetown): "Judith Coplon's Telephone: Electronic Eavesdropping and the Origins of the American Surveillance State." 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge