English Department Graduate Program Calendar

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	Dissertation Defense: Omari Weekes 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) Public Portion beginning at 9:30 AM Celebration Toast beginning at Noon! Please plan to attend the public portion as well as the celebration! Material Texts: Whitney Trettien (Penn), “Edward Benlowes’ Queer Books: Experiments in Digital Book History” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library		GEA Workshop: Being in Coursework 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
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	CTL Workshop: Josephine Park, "Evaluating Student Work, " 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) Material Texts: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale), “Unread: A History of the Book in Colonial South Asia” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Poetry & Poetics: KWH - Renee Gladman, a discussion of selected readings 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk	Pedagogy Workshop: Responding to Student Disclosure of Sexual Violence and Title IX Workshop with Jess Mertz (Penn Violence Prevention) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)		Black Cultural Studies Collective, Latitudes: Event featuring Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi on The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)	Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Eduardo Kohn's "How Forests Think" (2015) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room
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	M@P: Medievalists @ Penn meeting 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Williams Hall 440 Material Texts: J.M. Duffin (Penn), “Draining the Swamp of Arcane Legal Text: Reclaiming the Geography of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Poetry & Poetics: Alexis Pauline-Gumbs, a discussion of selected readings 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)	Gen/Sex: Anjali Arondekar, "Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive" 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)	Poetry & Poetics: New Disability Poetics Symposium 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street GEA Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) Premodern Studies: 2018 Phyllis Rackin Lecture: Will Stockton (Clemson University) 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401 AmLit: CANCELED - Professor Mai-Linh Hong (Bucknell) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
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	Material Texts: Katie Chenoweth (Princeton), “Printers’ Devices, or, How French Got Its Accents” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Graduate Revision Workshop: Knar Gavin, “Geo-Poetic Archives of Revolt in This, Our Madhouse” 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 Graduate Student Coffee with Alexis Pauline Gumbs 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Fisher Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge) Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Code Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter Oracle" 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401	Mod/Con: Emily Hyde (Rowan University), WIP: "African Art and the Camera Eye: Eliot Elisofon’s Experimental Photography" 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)	AmLit: Elizabeth McHenry (NYU) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
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	Material Texts: Sarah Guérin (Penn), “On Ivory, Wax, and Paint: New Insights on Devotional Booklets” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library