Upcoming Events

Sep

19

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

AmLit: Welcome Back Reading, “Introduction to Kyla Schuller’s The Biopolitics of Feeling”

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Please email Jane Robbins Mize (jrmize@sas.upenn.edu) for more information.
Sep

20

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Latitudes: Ania Loomba, "Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India"

Fisher Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)

Professor Ania Loomba will be speaking about her new book, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India.
Sep

24

(All day)

Carlo Ginzburg visit

TBD
Sep

24

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

CTL Workshop: Dana Cypress, “Making Group Work Work”

Van Pelt Library, room 134

To register, sign up at https://www.ctl.upenn.edu/events
Sep

24

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Dead Parents Society Meets Modern Loss

A conversation with Rebecca Soffer, hosted by Jamie-Lee Josselyn
Kelly Writers House, Class of 1942 Garden

rsvp to: wh@writing.upenn.edu or (215-746-POEM)
Sep

24

12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Latitudes: Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)
Sep

24

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Sixth floor

The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

Speaker: Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Monday, September 24: "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Tuesday, September 25: "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"
Sep

25

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Newly Renovated Undergraduate Study Center

Fisher-Bennett Hall, 2nd floor, Judith S. Rodin - Class of 1966 Undergraduate Study Center

Join your fellow English majors and minors for a RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY of the redesigned Judith S. Rodin - Class of 1966 Undergraduate Study Center in Fisher-Bennett Hall.

Celebrate Byrne Fahey's ('17) winning design with cookies and (fake) bubbly!
Sep

25

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"

The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Sixth floor

The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

Speaker: Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Monday, September 24: "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Tuesday, September 25: "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"
Sep

25

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: David Bromige Memorial Reading

Kelly Writers House, Class of 1942 Garden

Please join Jack Krick and Ron Silliman and several guest readers to celebrate the work and life of the late, great David Bromige with the launch of his if wants to be the same as is: The Essential Poems of David Bromige. With Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Steve Dolph, Ryan Eckes, George Economou, Rochelle Owens, Eli Goldblatt, Tom Mandel, Chris McCreary, Ariel Reznikoff, Frank Sherlock, and Orchid Tierney.
Sep

25

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Mods: Welcome Back Reading: Discussion of Simon During's Exit Capitalism

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Join Mods as we start the new semester with a discussion of Simon During's Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity. Email Devin Daniels at devindan@sas.upenn.edu or Alex Millen at millen@sas.upenn.edu for more information.
Sep

26

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Arthur Bahr

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Sep

26

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Wolf Humanities Center: Acts, Facts, and Artifacts - The Stuff of Black Culture

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, with Kevin Young and Herman Beavers
Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut St

Cosponsored by the Departments of Africana Studies and English and the Center for Africana Studies.
Sep

26

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Other Women Don't Tell You

The Poetics of Motherhood
Kelly Writers House, Class of 1942 Garden

What makes poetry a fitting vessel for the experience of motherhood? Motherhood’s intergenerational quality complicates temporal movement as well as the voice of a singular “I,” bridging present experience with a legacy of mothers past and the futurity of our children. ANANDA LIMA, URSULA RUCKER, SARA BURNETT, and JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH — poet mothers from diverse backgrounds — will read their work and discuss motherhood not merely as subject matter, but as an integral element of poetics.
Sep

27

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Again"

The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Sixth floor

The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

Speaker: Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Monday, September 24: "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Tuesday, September 25: "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"
Oct

1

9:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Dissertation Defense: Omari Weekes

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

1

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Whitney Trettien (Penn), “Digital Book History”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Oct

1

6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Renee Gladman, a discussion of selected readings

Kelly Writers House
Oct

1

6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Reading and Conversation with Jennifer Egan, Artist in Residence

Bob Lucid Fiction Program
Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk, room: World Forum

RSVP requested: wh@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 746-POEM

Co-sponsored by English Department and Kelly Writers House
Oct

3

10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

GEA Workshop: Being in Coursework

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Oct

8

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

CTL Workshop: Josephine Park, "Evaluating Student Work, "

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Oct

8

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale), “Unread: A History of the Book in Colonial South Asia”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Oct

9

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Penn Violence Prevention: Sexual Violence Reporting Workshop for English Grad Students

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Oct

11

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Black Cultural Studies Collective, Latitudes: Event featuring Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi on The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)
Oct

12

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up Deadline

FBH

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

12

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think (2015)

Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room

Contact e-mail: pennthropocene@gmail.com
Oct

15

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Lunch with Journalist Helen Ubiñas

Povich Journalism Program, hosted by Dick Polman
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

rsvp: wh@writing.upenn.edu or (215) 746-POEM
Oct

15

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: J.M. Duffin (Penn), “Draining the Swamp of Arcane Legal Text: Reclaiming the Geography of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Oct

16

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennet Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)
Oct

16

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Alexis Pauline-Gumbs, a discussion of selected readings

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Oct

16

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Zine Rave

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

Join ALYSON DEL PINO (C’21) and JACOB KIND (C’20), curators of the Writers House Zine Library, for Zine Rave, a collective zine-making event. Bring material to cut up and transform (magazine, printed material, other clip art). Organizers write: "The Zine Rave will feature tunes for the young ones, food for the hungry ones, and zines for the on-topic ones. We will also be creating the biggest zine ever, so bring magazine clip art if you harvest it. No exaggeration. This is not a marketing scheme."
Oct

18

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: New Disability Poetics Symposium

LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street
Oct

18

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

CTL Workshop: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, “Creative In-Class Exercises"

Van Pelt Library, room 134

To register, sign up at https://www.ctl.upenn.edu/events
Oct

18

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Annual Phyllis Rackin Lecture - Will Stockton

"How Many Lovers Had Shakespeare?"
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Oct

19

(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

19

(All day)

Graduate Fall Language Exam

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Oct

22

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Katie Chenoweth (Princeton), “Printers’ Devices, or, How French Got Its Accents”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Oct

23

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Code Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter Oracle"

Department Lecture and Visit
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Oct

24

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Lunch with Journalist Jay Rosen

Povich Journalism Program, hosted by Dick Polman
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

rsvp: wh@writing.upenn.edu or (215) 746-POEM
Oct

24

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Mods: Emily Hyde (Rowan University), WIP: "African Art and the Camera Eye: Eliot Elisofon’s Experimental Photography"

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Email Devin Daniels at devindan@sas.upenn.edu or Alex Millen at millen@sas.upenn.edu for the pre-circulated reading.
Oct

25

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

AmLit: Elizabeth McHenry (NYU)

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Oct

29

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Sarah Guérin (Penn), “On Ivory, Wax, and Paint: New Insights on Devotional Booklets”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Oct

29

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Trans Literacy Project: Teaching Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theory

Penn LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-literacy-project-teaching-feminist-queer-and-trans-theory-tickets-49442440671

PANELISTS
Oct

30

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: A Poetry Reading by Norbert Lange

Writers Without Borders, hosted by Charles Bernstein
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

NORBERT LANGE was born in Gdynia, Poland, in 1978 and came to Germany with his parents in 1981, where he grew up in the Rhineland. He studied Art History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies in Berlin, then Literature at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. In his poems he seeks an “intensive exchange with the voices of the poetic tradition and the poetic energies of poetic predecessors. What emerges is enormous poetic friction heat” (Michael Braun).
Oct

31

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Faculty Colloquium

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

31

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Ammiel Alcalay and the Lost & Found Initiative

Applebaum Editors and Publishers Program, hosted by Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

rsvp: wh@writing.upenn.edu or 2215-746-POEM
Nov

5

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

CTL Workshop: Melissa Sanchez, “Teaching Popular Culture”

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Nov

5

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Margo Natalie Crawford (Penn), “The Textual Production of a Shared Black Edge”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
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

8

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Eric Schmaltz, poetry reading combined with a discussion of Surfaces

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Nov

9

(All day)

Kislak Fellowship Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Nov

9

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Jennifer Scappettone's "Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air's Uneven Commons" (2018)

Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room

Contact e-mail: pennthropocene@gmail.com
Nov

10

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: Rediscovering Benjamin Rush, a Conversation with Bestselling Author Stephen Fried (C’79)

Arts at Homecoming Event
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

rsvp to: whhomecoming@writing.upenn.edu or (215-746-POEM)
Nov

12

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: David Norbrook (Oxford), “‘But a copie’: Lucy Hutchinson’s Life in her Texts”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Nov

13

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge, room 135
Nov

14

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Noémie Ndiaye

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Nov

14

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Kelly Writers House: The Dwight Project - Poetics of the AIDS Crisis

Creative Ventures Capital project with Imani Davis
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

How do we remember those who do not live to tell their own stories? Imani Davis (C'20) blends poetry and virtual reality to find an answer. In this cross between a reading and an immersive VR experience, Imani uncovers the history of their late uncle Dwight, who passed from complications due to AIDS during the height of the crisis in NYC. Google Cardboards provided.
Nov

15

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Jennifer Scappettone, lunch

Kelly Writers House
Nov

15

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Trans Literacy Project: Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary

Penn LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-literacy-project-teaching-beyond-the-gender-binary-tickets-49441743586

PANELISTS
Nov

19

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Samantha Sommers (Ohio State), “Reading in Books”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Nov

26

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: TBA

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Nov

28

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Nov

29

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Mods: Steven Lee

Author of The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Co-hosted by Mods, Asian American Studies, and Russian and East European Studies.
Dec

3

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Mitch Fraas (Penn), “Boilerplate: Documentation, Paperwork, and the Persistence of Form across the Early Modern and Modern Worlds”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Dec

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge, room 135
Dec

5

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Majors and Minors Tea with Jennifer Egan

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Dec

10

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Arthur Kiron (Penn), “Hidden in Plain Sight: Christian Readers of Rabbinic Literature in the Colonial Americas”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Dec

14

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)

Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room

Contact e-mail: pennthropocene@gmail.com
Jan

17

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

17

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Jan

22

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

22

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Jan

22

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Winter Reading Project featuring Jennifer Egan

Harrison College House Sky Lounge
Jan

23

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Anna Lyman’s WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Jan

24

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

24

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Jan

29

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

30

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Davis Knittle, WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Jan

31

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

31

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

1

(All day)

Critical Writing Graduate Teaching Fellowships Applications Due to Val Ross

FBH
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

8

(All day)

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

FBH
Feb

8

(All day)

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

FBH
Feb

8

10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Graduate Admissions Final Meeting

Graduate Admissions Committee
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

11

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Keegan Finberg, WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Feb

12

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

13

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

50-Book Exam Discussion

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm)

(First Years)

Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm)

(Second Years)
Feb

13

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Kellie Robertson

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)
Feb

15

(All day)

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

FBH
Feb

21

5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Latitudes, Mods, Res-Vic: Nasser Mufti

Author of Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)
Feb

22

(All day)

M@P: 11th Annual Medievalists @ Penn Conference

TBD
Feb

27

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Faculty Colloquium

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

1

(All day)

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

FBH
Mar

12

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

13

(All day)

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

FBH
Mar

13

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Sarah Novacich

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Mar

19

(All day)

Graduate Recruitment Visit

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

20

(All day)

Charles Burnett visit

TBD
Mar

22

(All day)

Fontaine Dinner

TBD

Time TBD
Mar

25

(All day)

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

FBH
Apr

3

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Student Town Hall

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

3

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Erika Lin

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Apr

5

(All day)

Gen/Sex: Conference - Queer Urgencies

TBD
Apr

9

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

12

(All day)

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

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

12

(All day)

Graduate Spring Language Exams

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 Faculty Lounge
Apr

26

(All day)

Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
May

1

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

End of Year Cocktail Party

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May

20

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Commencement Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall, 2nd floor reception area
Aug

27

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Graduate 50 Book Exams and Welcome Back

Faculty Offices
Aug

27

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Orientation Luncheon

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Aug

27

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

13

7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Collation and Department Party

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AmLit: Welcome Back Reading, “Introduction to Kyla Schuller’s The Biopolitics of Feeling”

Latitudes: Ania Loomba, "Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India"

Latitudes: Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP

Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"

Mods: Welcome Back Reading: Discussion of Simon During's Exit Capitalism

Med/Ren: Arthur Bahr

Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Again"

Material Texts: Whitney Trettien (Penn), “Digital Book History”

Poetry & Poetics: Renee Gladman, a discussion of selected readings

Material Texts: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale), “Unread: A History of the Book in Colonial South Asia”

Black Cultural Studies Collective, Latitudes: Event featuring Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi on The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think (2015)

Material Texts: J.M. Duffin (Penn), “Draining the Swamp of Arcane Legal Text: Reclaiming the Geography of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia”

Poetry & Poetics: Alexis Pauline-Gumbs, a discussion of selected readings

Poetry & Poetics: New Disability Poetics Symposium

Med/Ren: Annual Phyllis Rackin Lecture - Will Stockton

Material Texts: Katie Chenoweth (Princeton), “Printers’ Devices, or, How French Got Its Accents”

Mods: Emily Hyde (Rowan University), WIP: "African Art and the Camera Eye: Eliot Elisofon’s Experimental Photography"

AmLit: Elizabeth McHenry (NYU)

Material Texts: Sarah Guérin (Penn), “On Ivory, Wax, and Paint: New Insights on Devotional Booklets”

Material Texts: Margo Natalie Crawford (Penn), “The Textual Production of a Shared Black Edge”

Poetry & Poetics: Eric Schmaltz, poetry reading combined with a discussion of Surfaces

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Jennifer Scappettone's "Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air's Uneven Commons" (2018)

Material Texts: David Norbrook (Oxford), “‘But a copie’: Lucy Hutchinson’s Life in her Texts”

Med/Ren: Noémie Ndiaye

Poetry & Poetics: Jennifer Scappettone, lunch

Material Texts: Samantha Sommers (Ohio State), “Reading in Books”

Material Texts: TBA

Mods: Steven Lee

Material Texts: Mitch Fraas (Penn), “Boilerplate: Documentation, Paperwork, and the Persistence of Form across the Early Modern and Modern Worlds”

Material Texts: Arthur Kiron (Penn), “Hidden in Plain Sight: Christian Readers of Rabbinic Literature in the Colonial Americas”

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)

Med/Ren: Anna Lyman’s WIP

Poetry & Poetics: Davis Knittle, WIP

Poetry & Poetics: Keegan Finberg, WIP

Med/Ren: Kellie Robertson

Latitudes, Mods, Res-Vic: Nasser Mufti

M@P: 11th Annual Medievalists @ Penn Conference

Med/Ren: Sarah Novacich

Med/Ren: Erika Lin

Gen/Sex: Conference - Queer Urgencies