Upcoming Events

I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton

Book Signing, Reading & Reception with Kathryn Watterson

Penn Book Center34th & Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104 

Free and Open to the Public!

Against Conquest

A conversation with Sandra de la Loza, Fran Ilich and Jennifer Ponce de León on history as insurgency

Slought Foundation4017 Walnut Street

How does history forge our sense of the world and possibilities for changing it? How has it represented capitalist conquest, dispossession, and colonial logics as natural or inevitable, while attempting to eradicate all traces of alternative social projects or make them appear senseless, minor, or anachronistic? How have artists modeled other ways of thinking about history and the insurgency of practices and worldviews that (while consigned, by some, to the past or to the margins) are a vital compass for charting a path beyond ongoing conquest, environmental destruction, and genocide?

Material Texts: Marissa Nicosia (English, Penn State-Abington): "'Chronicled at home': Perkin Warbeck and the Popularity of English History Plays"

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

Please join us Monday, September 25th, for this semester's next meeting of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts. We will convene at our usual time and place: 5:15pm in the Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.

We will be welcoming Marissa Nicosia for a talk entitled: “‘Chronicled at home’: Perkin Warbeck and the Popularity of English History Plays.” Marissa writes:

Latitudes: Conversation with Dr. Ania Loomba and Dr. Melissa Sanchez on "Studying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Earlier Periods: Lessons, Limits, and Intersections"

Fisher-Bennett Hall 330, Graduate Lounge

Material Texts: Mary Channen Caldwell (Music, Penn): “Inscribing Performance: Cueing Repetition in Medieval Song”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

Rita Barnard: Chronotopes of the Global Novel

Helen C. White Hall 6191600 N. Park StreetMadison, WI 53706

Presented by the Modernisms/Modernities Colloquium

Res-Vic: Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa)

FBH Grad Lounge 330

Graduate Seminar on Poetics and Race with Dorothy Wang (Williams College)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge

Screening: Iffat Fatima's film Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves Its Trail)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

The film follows the trail of the thousands of young men of Kashmir who “have been disappeared” since 1990, the personal loss and agony their families are going through, and the resistance offered by them to the state. Raising issues that resonate with the movement of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, this film offers a compelling, and moving documentation of both state repression and resistance. Made over nine years, the film offers rare footage of Kashmiri women, both outside and inside the home, and bears witness to their understanding of this political moment.

Latitudes: Adam Shellhorse, "Affect, Immanence, and Politics, in Latin American Anti-Literature."

Meyerson Conference Center in Van Pelt Library

Material Texts: Anuradha Mathu (Landscape Architecture, Penn) and Dilip da Cunha (Graduate School of Design, Harvard): “Designing the Place of Water through Archival Work, Field Work, and Studio Work”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

Material Texts: Joseph Farrell (Classical Studies, Penn): “Ancient and Modern Materialities”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

Med/Ren: Eric Weiskott (Boston College)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/faculty/facalpha/weiskott.html

Res-Vic: Tim Chandler WIP (Penn)

FBH Grad Lounge 330

Faculty Colloquium

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

Mods: Sarah Cole

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Material Texts: Aden Kumler (Art History, and Romance Languages & Literatures, Chicago): “Lyric vessels”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

AmLit: Roy Scranton (University of Notre Dame)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 330, Graduate Lounge

Pedagogy Workshop on Sexual Violence Response featuring Jessica Mertz, director of Sexual Violence Prevention at Penn

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330

Material Texts: Steffi Dippold (English, Kansas State): “A Prince Went Up a Tree and Climbed into Colonial Typography”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

Department Lecture - Christina Sharpe

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

https://ase.tufts.edu/english/people/sharpe.htm

CTL Workshop with Karen Redrobe

Fisher-Bennett hall 330, Graduate Lounge

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

Material Texts: Rachel Sagner Buurma (English, Swarthmore) and Laura Heffernan (English, University of North Florida): “The Materiality of Syllabi and the History of Literary Study”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center6th Floor of Van-Pelt Library

English Department Job Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

English Department Job Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

English Department Job Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

Gen/Sex: Victor Mendoza Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

On February 8th, the Gender/Sexuality Reading Group; LGBT Center; Asian American Studies Program (ASAM); and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Department (GSWS) will host Victor Mendoza, Associate Professor and Director of the Race, Colonialism, and Sexualities Initiative at the University of Michigan in Fisher Bennett Hall Room 401 from 5-6:30 pm.

Faculty Colloquium

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

Med/Ren: Alice Dailey (Villanova)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge

https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/english/gradenglish/faculty_...

Swift in the 21st Century

Goldstein Family Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, sixth floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

For more information, please see here:

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/swift350.html

Med/Ren: Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge

https://www.brynmawr.edu/people/colby-gordon

Res-Vic: Christopher Chan WIP (Penn)

FBH Grad Lounge 330

Graduate Student Recruitment Visit

FBH

Anthropocene and Animal Studies, Latitudes, Mods: Environments of Modernity Conference

Slought Foundation

Gen/Sex, Med/Ren: Carolyn Dinshaw

TBA

http://as.nyu.edu/sca/people.carolyn-dinshaw.html

Leo Bersani Lecture

TBA

Northeast Victorian Studies Association at Penn (NVSA)

Please save the date April 13th to the 15th, 2018 for the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference at Penn, more details to follow.

WIPs Workshop

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Reading, Writing, Printing: A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, sixth floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

 

The English Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts invite you to:

Reading, Writing, Printing
A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass

April 19-20, 2018

Undergraduate Awards & Party

Fisher-Bennett Hall