English Department Events Calendar

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			Premodern Studies: 2025 Phyllis Rackin Lecture with Dr. Bernadette Andrea 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Location: Zoom		Postcolonial Dreams Conference (All day) April 4th ARCH 108 / April 5th Houston Hall 218	Postcolonial Dreams Conference (All day) April 4th ARCH 108 / April 5th Houston Hall 218
Deadline to Submit Wolf Humanities Center Undergraduate Research Fellowship Applications (All day) Online

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	Material Texts: Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington) "Characters, Epistolary Novels, and the Analog History of A.I." 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Lecture by Professor Hiʻilei Hobart, “Noho Mai: Tarry with Me” 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM Fisher Bennett Hall 135	Latitudes: Reading Series: Wissam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals (2023) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Graduate Student Lounge (FBH 330)		Departmental Lecture town hall 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM FBH faculty lounge Latinx Studies: Working Group Meeting 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM McNeil 458 English Honors Thesis Symposium 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM HYBRID: Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom Latitudes, Mod/Con: Avni Sejpal (UPenn): Work in Progress 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330)
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	Material Texts: Jana Dambrogio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Amy Kaplan's Our American Israel 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Penn Bookstore	Faculty Meeting (3:30–5:00pm) 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135) Gen/Sex, Latitudes: Spoil(s) of Repair: Summer Kim Lee in Conversation with David L. Eng 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)	CETLI Workshop: Teaching Demonstrations 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM 135 (Faculty Lounge) Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 CANCELED: "New Directions in Black Studies" Lecture, "Translating Blackness," Professor Lorgia García Peña 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135		Dissertation Defense: Molly Young 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
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	Material Texts: Roundtable "Inscribing Indigeneity in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to the History of the Book" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Dissertation Defense: Nat Rivkin 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)	Premodern Trans Studies 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135 Dissertation Defense: Jacob Myers 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Student Lounge (room 330) and Zoom Book Launch--Abdulhamit Arvas' Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135		"Find Your Inner Founder," a Penn Career Tools webinar 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Virtual Indie Halstead Practice Job Talk 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (with hybrid/zoom option) Latinx Studies: Reading Group: Christina A. Léon, "Matters of Inscription" and Maia Gil’Adí, "Doom Patterns" 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM McNeil 458		Stuart Curran Memorial Service and Reception 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in Van Pelt Library, 6F
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	Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Collège de France/University of Pennsylvania) "Enlightened Quipus: Françoise de Graffigny's Lettre d'une Péruvienne and Eighteenth-century French Incas" 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Penn English Program in London Fall 2025 Welcome Gathering 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 135 (English Faculty Lounge)	Queer Poetry from Homer to Hughes Class Conference 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)	Fashion and Self-Fashioning During the Harlem Renaissance 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM VIRTUAL Reflections on the Wars: Then and Now, Roundtable Discussion 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM PSC COMMONS