English Department Events Calendar

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	Material Texts: Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins), "John Milton in the Printing House (1644)" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library KWH: Poems (in Color) by Bernadette Mayer 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	Graduate Revision Workshop: Martine Tchitchihe, "Extremist Insurgency: the Case of Boko Haram" 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 Anthropocene and Animal Studies, Poetry & Poetics: Graduate Student Lunch with Brian Teare and Allison Cobb 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, dining room Poetry & Poetics: KWH: Informal Discussion with Ecopoets and Environmental Humanists Brian Teare and Allison Cobb 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	Premodern Studies: Erika Lin 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) "Revolution is the Solution": A Public Conversation with BOOTS RILEY 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM International House, Lightbox Film Center, 3701 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA KWH: Stand-Ups Sit Down with Lew Schneider, Judy Gold, and Laurie Kilmartin 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk Penn Theatre Arts: Of Government 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Bruce Montgomery Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street		Gen/Sex: Conference - Queer Urgencies (All day) TBD
KWH: Readings by Kai Davis and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
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	Material Texts: Sarah Horowitz (Haverford), “Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Illustrators of the Wig and Powder School: British Gift Books of the 1890s” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library KWH: Alternative Theatre Festival Preview 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	KWH: Katie Degentesh Poetry Reading 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk Faculty Meeting 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) AmLit: Elias Rodriques (WIP) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge, room 330 KWH: Breaking Through: A. H. Jerriod Avant and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	GEA Meeting 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) Brown Bag Lunch with Career Services: Resources and Career Paths for English Majors 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) Penn Libraries: Research Tea with Professor Dagmawi Woubshet 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Van Pelt Library, 2nd Floor, Meyerson Conference Room KWH: STITCHED! Weaving Together Creative Nonfiction and Philadelphia’s Fiber Arts Community 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	Paleography: Working Group Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Van Pelt 623 CTL Faculty-to-Faculty Lunch Discussion: Making the Most of Office Hours 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM CTL/OLI Seminar Room, 134 Van Pelt Library Latitudes: Prof. P.K. Datta, “Tagore’s Experiments in Nationalism: Viswabharati” 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) KWH: RealArts@Penn Presents The Music of Lou Reed and Beyond 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	TIMFEST! Timothy Corrigan's Retirement Symposium 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt Library
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	CTL Workshop: "Digital Media in the Classroom" with Rahul Mukherjee 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn), “The Book as Body, the Life as Editions: From Quevedo to Machado (de Asssis)” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Mod/Con: Discussion of Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss" and "Je ne parle pas français" 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)	Dissertation Defense: Eleni Palis, “Theorizing Film Quotation: Re-Membering Classical Hollywood in Contemporary American Cinema” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) KWH: Poetry is for Breathing: A Reading Against Islamophobia 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk Open Notebook Event for English Majors and Minors 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) Dissertation Defense: Mariah Min, "Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot and the Invention of Medieval Literary Character" 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)		Haverford College: Paul Hendrickson, "The Color of Memory" 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM 104 Chase Auditorium, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
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	M@P: Discussion of Carissa Harris's "Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain" 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM 440 Williams Hall One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom) Material Texts: Michael Suarez (Virginia), “Annotation, Editing, and the Material Text: The Case of Alexander Pope and His Contemporaries” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Slought: Forced Migrations & Poetry as Encounter 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Rosanne Cash 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Rosanne Cash 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom) Xfic Launch Party 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Golkin room, Houston Hall	Reading Group Coordinators Workshop 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 310C One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom) Workshop: Clint Williamson (WIP), "‘In Which a Variety of Characters Appear’: The Ragged Formations of a Nebula in Melville’s The Confidence Man" 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) KWH: A Conversation with Douglas Brinkley 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe	KWH: 13th Annual Marathon Reading of Emily Wilson's The Odyssey 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom) CTL Workshop: "The Art of the Syllabus" with Dagmawi Woubshet 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)	Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Working Group Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Graduate Student Center Conference Room (2nd floor) One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom) Counter-Histories of Theory Symposium 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
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	Graduate Revision Workshop: Aylin Malcolm, "'Le Diable qui parle par ta bouche': Vulgar Language from Mankind to Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs" 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330

KWH: Readings by Kai Davis and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Material Texts: Sarah Horowitz (Haverford), “Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Illustrators of the Wig and Powder School: British Gift Books of the 1890s”

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

KWH: Alternative Theatre Festival Preview

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

KWH: Katie Degentesh Poetry Reading

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Faculty Meeting

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

AmLit: Elias Rodriques (WIP)

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge, room 330

KWH: Breaking Through: A. H. Jerriod Avant and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

GEA Meeting

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Brown Bag Lunch with Career Services: Resources and Career Paths for English Majors

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Penn Libraries: Research Tea with Professor Dagmawi Woubshet

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Van Pelt Library, 2nd Floor, Meyerson Conference Room

KWH: STITCHED! Weaving Together Creative Nonfiction and Philadelphia’s Fiber Arts Community

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Van Pelt 623

CTL Faculty-to-Faculty Lunch Discussion: Making the Most of Office Hours

12:00 PM to 1:15 PM

CTL/OLI Seminar Room, 134 Van Pelt Library

Latitudes: Prof. P.K. Datta, “Tagore’s Experiments in Nationalism: Viswabharati”

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

KWH: RealArts@Penn Presents The Music of Lou Reed and Beyond

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

TIMFEST! Timothy Corrigan's Retirement Symposium

9:00 AM to 5:30 PM

Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt Library

CTL Workshop: "Digital Media in the Classroom" with Rahul Mukherjee

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn), “The Book as Body, the Life as Editions: From Quevedo to Machado (de Asssis)”

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

Mod/Con: Discussion of Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss" and "Je ne parle pas français"

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)

Dissertation Defense: Eleni Palis, “Theorizing Film Quotation: Re-Membering Classical Hollywood in Contemporary American Cinema”

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

KWH: Poetry is for Breathing: A Reading Against Islamophobia

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Open Notebook Event for English Majors and Minors

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Dissertation Defense: Mariah Min, "Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot and the Invention of Medieval Literary Character"

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Haverford College: Paul Hendrickson, "The Color of Memory"

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

104 Chase Auditorium, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

M@P: Discussion of Carissa Harris's "Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain"

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

440 Williams Hall

One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center

12:00 PM to 12:45 PM

Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom)

Material Texts: Michael Suarez (Virginia), “Annotation, Editing, and the Material Text: The Case of Alexander Pope and His Contemporaries”

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

Slought: Forced Migrations & Poetry as Encounter

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Rosanne Cash

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Rosanne Cash

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center

12:00 PM to 12:45 PM

Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom)

Xfic Launch Party

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Golkin room, Houston Hall

Reading Group Coordinators Workshop

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 310C

One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center

12:00 PM to 12:45 PM

Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom)

Workshop: Clint Williamson (WIP), "‘In Which a Variety of Characters Appear’: The Ragged Formations of a Nebula in Melville’s The Confidence Man"

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

KWH: A Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

KWH: 13th Annual Marathon Reading of Emily Wilson's The Odyssey

11:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center

12:00 PM to 12:45 PM

Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom)

CTL Workshop: "The Art of the Syllabus" with Dagmawi Woubshet

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Working Group Meeting

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Graduate Student Center Conference Room (2nd floor)

One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center

12:00 PM to 12:45 PM

Marching from the Button outside Van Pelt Library to Penn Book Center (34th & Sansom)

Counter-Histories of Theory Symposium

1:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401

Graduate Revision Workshop: Aylin Malcolm, "'Le Diable qui parle par ta bouche': Vulgar Language from Mankind to Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs"

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330

April, 2019

Monday, April 1, 2019