Upcoming Events

Sep

19

4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Geosocial Encounters

Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street

The event features films and ideas from Adam Diller, Leo Goldsmith, Cymene Howe, Ernst Karel, Shambhavi Kaul, Toby Lee, Peter Bo Rapmmund, Selmin Kara, Rizvana Bradley, Rea Tajiri, Deborah Thomas, and more to be announced!
Sep

19

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Mods: Discussion of Adrienne Brown's "The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race"

Graduate Lounge of Fisher-Bennett Hall Room, 330

Join the Mods Graduate Group for a discussion of The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race. Please contact Devin Daniels (devindan@sas.upenn.edu), Alex Millen (millen@sas.upenn.edu), or JS Wu (jswu@sas.upenn.edu) for a copy of the reading.
Sep

20

10:00 AM to 5:30 PM

Geosocial Encounters

Humanities Conference Room, Room 623 Williams Hall

The event features films and ideas from Adam Diller, Leo Goldsmith, Cymene Howe, Ernst Karel, Shambhavi Kaul, Toby Lee, Peter Bo Rapmmund, Selmin Kara, Rizvana Bradley, Rea Tajiri, Deborah Thomas, and more to be announced!
Sep

25

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Meghan Hall Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Sep

26

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Latitudes: Rovel Sequeira Work in Progress Presentation: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Sexual Science and the Biography of Sodomy in Colonial North India"

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135

Please email David Buchanan (dbuchan@sas.upenn.edu) or Rovel Sequeira (rovelseq@sas.upenn.edu) to request a copy of the work-in-progress.
Oct

3

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Lunch Meeting with Graduate Students and Prof. Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin)

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Please note change of date.
Oct

3

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Department Lecture: Prof. Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin), "A 9th Century Arab Dhow and Its Stories of Early Globalism: Art, World-Voyaging, and Industrial Modernity in the Global Middle Ages”

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401

Please note change of date.
Oct

10

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Latitudes: Discussion of Said and Aboul-Ela

Graduate Student Lounge of Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330

Please join Latitudes for a group discussion of two important works of literary criticism: Edward Said's canonical Culture and Imperialism and Hosam Aboul-Ela's recently published Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens, which uses Said's text as a model to explore U.S. imperialism.
Oct

11

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up Deadline

FBH

WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Deadline
Oct

16

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Paul Hendrickson on Frank Lloyd Wright

Kelly Writers House Arts Cafe

Join us for a discussion with Paul Hendrickson, the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway’s Boat and Sons of Mississippi, whose newest book about Frank Llyd Wright is an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.
Oct

17

(All day)

The Legacy of 1619: The 2019 Annual Callaloo Conference

TBA
Oct

18

(All day)

Field Exams Scheduled

Third Years and Faculty Committees
FBH
Dates for written and oral portions of Field Exams should be scheduled. Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10, 2018). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place with 2 weeks of the written exam no later than Thursday, December 20, 2018.
Oct

18

(All day)

Graduate Fall Language Exam

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Oct

24

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Latitudes: Professor Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology) on "The Promise of Infrastructure" and More

Graduate Lounge of Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330

Latitudes welcomes Associate Professor Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology) for a talk about his recently-published The Promise of Infrastructure as well as other projects.
Nov

4

7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Paul Hendrickson | Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

Parkway Central Library1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
215-686-5322

Paul Hendrickson’s books include Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Sons of Mississippi, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, a National Book Award finalist. A creative writing teacher at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 20 years and a feature writer at the Washington Post for the two decades before that, he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize six times.
Nov

6

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Med/Ren: Phyllis Rackin Lecture: Jennifer Higginbotham Medieval/Renaissance

Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401
Nov

7

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Poetry & Poetics / Mods: Christopher Nealon (Johns Hopkins University)

TBD
Nov

8

(All day)

Kislak Fellowship Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Nov

8

(All day)

Graduate Field Exams (Written)

Third Years and Faculty Committees
FBH
Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10, 2018). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place within 2 weeks of the written exam no later than Thursday, December 20, 2018.
Nov

18

6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Paul Hendrickson In Conversation with Witold Rybczynski

Penn Book Center
130 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Join us for a discussion with Paul Hendrickson, the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway’s Boat and Sons of Mississippi, whose newest book about Frank Lloyd Wright is an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.
Nov

20

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Nov

20

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Emily Thornbury (Yale University) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Engliah Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Nov

21

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Mods: Talk by Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Yale)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Student Lounge, Room 330
Dec

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Alicia Meyer Work in Progress Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Feb

1

(All day)

Graduate SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

FBH

SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

(Students who expect to complete their dissertation in 2019-20 are ineligible)
Feb

1

(All day)

Critical Writing Graduate Teaching Fellowships Applications Due to Val Ross

FBH
Feb

7

(All day)

King’s College Fellowship Applications Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Feb

7

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Deadline

FBH
Feb

7

10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Graduate Admissions Final Meeting

Graduate Admissions Committee
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

12

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

50-Book and Field Exam Discussion

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm)

(First Years)

Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm)

(Second Years)
Feb

15

(All day)

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Graduate Division

FBH
Feb

19

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

1

(All day)

Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Mar

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) Work in Progress Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

13

(All day)

50-Book Exam Committee Chair must be selected; notify Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Mar

17

(All day)

Graduate Recruitment Days

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

25

(All day)

CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Apr

1

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Simone Chess (Wayne State University) Work in Progress Lecture

English Graduate Longe, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

8

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Student Town Hall - CANCELED

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Town Hall to coordinate Department Speaker Series and Graduate Group Coordinators for 2019-20.
Apr

12

(All day)

Graduate Spring Language Exams

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

12

(All day)

50-Book Exam Lists Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

19

(All day)

Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

24

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)
Apr

26

(All day)

Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Aug

24

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Graduate 50 Book Exams and Welcome Back

Faculty Offices
Aug

24

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Orientation Luncheon

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Aug

24

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Graduate 50-Book Exam Party

Graduate Lounge
Sep

4

(All day)

Graduate 50 Book Exams Reports due to Ann Marie Pitts

FBH
Sep

10

7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Collation and Department Party

Log in with Penn Key for location details

Mods: Discussion of Adrienne Brown's "The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race"

Med/Ren: Meghan Hall Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Latitudes: Rovel Sequeira Work in Progress Presentation: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Sexual Science and the Biography of Sodomy in Colonial North India"

Latitudes: Discussion of Said and Aboul-Ela

Latitudes: Professor Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology) on "The Promise of Infrastructure" and More

Med/Ren: Phyllis Rackin Lecture: Jennifer Higginbotham Medieval/Renaissance

Poetry & Poetics: Poetry & Poetics / Mods: Christopher Nealon (Johns Hopkins University)

Med/Ren: Emily Thornbury (Yale University) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Mods: Talk by Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Yale)

Med/Ren: Alicia Meyer Work in Progress Lecture

Med/Ren: Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Med/Ren: Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) Work in Progress Lecture

Med/Ren: Simone Chess (Wayne State University) Work in Progress Lecture