Upcoming Events

Julie Mellby writes: "During the nineteenth century, publishers, printers, artists, and chemists struggled to make fugitive photographic images permanent. Ernest Edwards solved this problem by developing the heliotype, a method of printing photographic negatives in ink, without a screen or need for cropping, making it the ideal solution for illustrated books and journals. Among the most important publications to use this process were Charles Darwin’s seminal 1859 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, followed by Edward Muybridge’s massive eleven volume Animal Locomotion begun in 1883. This is an overview of the Edwards process and how it was used."
 Julie Mellby is the graphic arts curator emeritus at Princeton University. Recent papers include “Never Fade Away: the Permanent Photograph,” National Gallery, Washington D.C.; “Edward L. Wilson and the Mechanical Photographers,” Royal Photographic Society, Bristol; and “Printing Big: Audubon, Havell, and the Double Elephant,” The Centre for Printing History and Culture, Pescara, Italy.

Co-sponsored by Penn Arts & Sciences

David Wallace is currently editing a three-volume work for Oxford University Press, with 110 contributors, called National Epics. This project has an interactive website, developed in association with Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities. (To explore the site, nationalepics.com, just click on any nation that interests you.) This webinar will take a look at both the book project and a related seminar, described below, and how they aim to explore, finally, how mastery of local and national understandings helps form a global picture.

The “National Epics” course asks students to consider what imaginative text has a given nation chosen to ‘represent’ itself to the world? When was that choice made, and how well is it holding up? The choice for India has been the Mahabharata for 2000 years, but what of the United States? The class covers one nation and one text per week, beginning in western Europe (France, Spain, Ireland, England, Iceland), pivoting across Eurasia (Russia, Mongolia) and then on to India, Korea, Vietnam, China, among others. Students come to see how their own family histories, always complex, interact with and form part of national sagas.

To register, please see here:

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Tuesday, Oct. 15

Lecture by Professor Chris Pexa at 5:30pm

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Lecture by Professor Audra Simpson at 3:30pm

Lecture by Professor Bianet Castellanos at 5:30pm

Tuesday, Nov. 12

Lecture by Professor Gloria Chacon at 3:30pm

Wednesday, Nov. 13

Lecture by Professor Rebecca Hogue at 5:30pm

Special collections often contribute to our research as scholars. How do we use them as teachers, and make them an active part of our undergraduate classrooms? This graduate student workshop will give participants a crash course in how to teach with special collections, using the Kislak Center’s special collections as its focal point. Potential topics include: teaching from vs. with the collections; learning from librarians; creative writing from the archives; developing independent research projects; and what to do when a library doesn’t have rare books from ‘your specialty.’

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the English department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.

Part of the CETLI Teaching Certificate Series

• Facilitator: Drs. Zachary L. Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor of English; and Emily Steiner, Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English

• Convener: Jonathan Dick, CETLI Fellow, English

 More details and registration: https://cetli.upenn.edu/event/teaching-with-special-collections/

Tuesday, Oct. 15

Lecture by Professor Chris Pexa at 5:30pm

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Lecture by Professor Audra Simpson at 3:30pm

Lecture by Professor Bianet Castellanos at 5:30pm

Tuesday, Nov. 12

Lecture by Professor Gloria Chacon at 3:30pm

Wednesday, Nov. 13

Lecture by Professor Rebecca Hogue at 5:30pm

Theory is intimidating, regardless of how familiar one might be with it. What can we do to make it accessible—if not also exciting—for our undergraduate students? This graduate student workshop will tackle how to teach theory in the undergraduate classroom, focusing specifically on the role theory plays in discussion-based or seminar-style classes.

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the English department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.

Part of the CETLI Teaching Certificate Series

• Facilitator: Dr. David C. Kazanjian, Professor of English and Graduate Chair of Comparative Literature and Theory

• Convener: Jonathan Dick, CETLI Fellow, English

More details and registration: https://cetli.upenn.edu/event/teaching-theory/