English Department Events Calendar

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			Premodern Studies: Emily Steiner (Penn) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge	KWH: Reading and Book Party with Herman Beavers 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Kelly Writers House Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street	First GEA Meeting of 2017-2018 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 330, Graduate Lounge
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	Material Texts: Jeffrey Kallberg (Music, Penn): “Chopin’s Chaise longue: Sociability and Homosocial Exchange” 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	KWH: Lunch with YA Novelist Jennifer Yu (C'16) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Arts Cafe at the Kelly Writers House	Africana Media Colloquium: Ellen Scott, “Cinema’s Peculiar Institution: Screen Slavery in 1939.” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330 Wendy Steiner: "What We Are Looking At When We Look At Nudes" 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 219 S. 6th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106	Latitudes: Prof. Natalie Melas (Cornell) @ Latitudes, "The Rise and Fall of Postcolonial Critique: Reflections on Situatedness" 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 330 Graduate Lounge English Department Collation and Welcome Party 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM McNeil Center for Early American Studies 34th and Walnut	Counterpublics/The Concordia-Penn Graduate Student Conference 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
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	Material Texts: Lynne Farrington (Penn): "A Very Good Book Indeed: Selling Bibles by Subscription in Nineteenth-Century America" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center 6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library AmLit: Welcome Back Reading: Discussion of Angela Naimou's Salvage Work 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330	Faculty Meeting 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM FBH Professor Peter Decherney, "Global Migration Crisis." 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Philadelphia Ethical Society (1906 Rittenhouse Square)	Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Jason Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Graduate Student Center 3615 Locust Walk 2nd Floor Conference Room	I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton - Penn Book Center 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Penn Book Center 34th & Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104	JRS Fall Instructors Meeting 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330 Against Conquest 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street
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	M@P: Discussion of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis (excerpts) 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Location: TBD Latitudes: South Africa, Writing & Social Justice 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM Meyerson Seminar Room Second Floor, Van Pelt Library Material Texts: Marissa Nicosia (English, Penn State-Abington): "'Chronicled at home': Perkin Warbeck and the Popularity of English History Plays" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center 6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library	Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop: Accessibility and Inclusion for Students and Instructors with Disabilities 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher–Bennett Hall 330 (Grad Lounge) CTL, Accessibility and Inclusion for Students and Instructors with Disabilities 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett 330 Graduate Lounge	Gen/Sex, Latitudes, Premodern Studies: Conversation with Dr. Ania Loomba and Dr. Melissa Sanchez on "Studying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Earlier Periods: Lessons, Limits, and Intersections" 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 330, Graduate Lounge Ghosts, Zombies, and the Afterlives of Slavery 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street	Paleography: Working Group Meeting 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Van Pelt 623	First Years GEA Workshop: The Seminar/Paper 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge