English Department Events Calendar

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	Material Texts: Ann Sherif (Oberlin): "Hokusai’s Page Spread: A Filial Piety Book in Early Modern Japan” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center A reading by Harryette Mullen 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Kelly Writers House	A Conversation with Harryette Mullen 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Kelly Writers House Helping Students Read More Effectively 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM CETLI Seminar Room (Van Pelt 134)	Premodern Studies: Panel on the state of the field in premodern trans studies with Nick Jones, Colby Gordon, and Sawyer Kemp (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Room (room 330) and Zoom		Reader Studies in the Digital Age 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall and Williams Hall See Symposium Program for complete location details.	Reader Studies in the Digital Age 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall and Williams Hall See Symposium Program for complete location details.
60-Second Lectures \| Asian America and the Hard Promise 11:45 AM to 12:00 PM Benjamin Franklin Statue in front of College Hall The American Poet Laureate: A Conversation with Amy Paeth and Robert Casper 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Kelly Writers House Imani Davis, E. Jin, and Wes Matthews 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Kelly Writers House
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Reader Studies in the Digital Age 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall and Williams Hall See Symposium Program for complete location details.	Material Texts: Lila Rice Goldenberg (Penn): "It is Easy to Add Books: Library Catalogs in Seventeenth-century Oxford" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center			AmLit, Mod/Con: POSTPONED: Mod/Con and AmLit: Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana): "Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem" 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)	English Honors Thesis Symposium 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM HYBRID: Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom
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	Dissertation Defense: Joel Newberger 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Zoom Poetry reading and discussion of translation with Safaa Fathy and Rawad Wehbe 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, Faculty Lounge (room 135) Material Texts: Zhenzhen Lu (Bates): “Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Rural North China, 17th-19th Centuries: The Liaozhai Collection at Keio University” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center	Investigating Homelessness: A Panel Discussion with Jennifer Egan and Dennis Culhane 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk Faculty Meeting (3:30–5:00pm) 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)	Premodern Studies: Phyllis Rackin Lecture 2024 (All day) Zoom	Dissertation Defense: Matty Hemming 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)	Dissertation Defense: Mark Firmani 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM FBH Faculty Lounge and Zoom
Latinx Studies, ResVic: Manu Chander (Georgetown): Browntology 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Zoom
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	Dissertation Defense: JS Wu 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM FBH Faculty Lounge Dissertation Defense: Ann Ho 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM FBH Faculty Lounge Material Texts: Marina Garona Gravier (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): "Printed Books in the Indigenous Languages of Latin America During the Colonial Period: An Approach from History, Editorial Studies, and Materiality” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center	Lecture, Salamishah Tillet (Pulitzer Prize-Winning author, Henry Rutgers Professor of African American and African Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark), "In The Moment of Her Performance: Listening to Nina Simone's Diary" 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401	Premodern Studies: Nat Rivkin WIP (All day) Hybrid	Premodern Literature and Global Histories 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM Thursday: Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library and Kelly Writers House Friday: Van Pelt Library, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts	Premodern Literature and Global Histories 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM Thursday: Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library and Kelly Writers House Friday: Van Pelt Library, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts	English UAB Presents: MOVIE NIGHT! 8:00 PM to 11:30 PM Gutmann College House (Gutmann Seminar Room 209)

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	Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn): “Books as Portfolio” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

60-Second Lectures | Asian America and the Hard Promise

11:45 AM to 12:00 PM

Benjamin Franklin Statue in front of College Hall

The American Poet Laureate: A Conversation with Amy Paeth and Robert Casper

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Kelly Writers House

Imani Davis, E. Jin, and Wes Matthews

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Kelly Writers House

Reader Studies in the Digital Age

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall and Williams Hall
See Symposium Program for complete location details.

Material Texts: Lila Rice Goldenberg (Penn): "It is Easy to Add Books: Library Catalogs in Seventeenth-century Oxford"

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

AmLit, Mod/Con: POSTPONED: Mod/Con and AmLit: Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana): "Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem"

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)

English Honors Thesis Symposium

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

HYBRID: Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom

Latinx Studies, ResVic: Manu Chander (Georgetown): Browntology

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Zoom

Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn): “Books as Portfolio”

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

April, 2024

Monday, April 1, 2024