English Department Events Calendar

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			Cinema and Media Studies Colloquium Bhaskar Sarkar 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH 330 Premodern Studies: Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) ““Sensible in the duller parts:” Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Text of Love’s Labour’s Lost.” 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330 Slought: screening of Island Galaxies and the Postcolony and discussion with Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Slought Foundation	CTL Workshops: Salamishah Tillet, “The Art of the Syllabus: Constructing a Course.” 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Small Africana Seminar Room, 3401A Walnut Street Gen/Sex, Poetry & Poetics: Julia Bloch WIP: “'Womb as Plot': Conceptive Risk and Reproductive Time in Contemporary Poetry" 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, 330 Mod/Con: Gayle Rogers & Paul Saint-Amour: Series Editors in Conversation 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM FBH 224 ResVic: Wendy Anne Lee (NYU) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330	GEA Workshop: Field Exam 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM FBh Grad Lounge 330
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	Spring Break (All day) University of Pennsylvania

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	Material Texts: Alejandro Ribeiro 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Santiago Segarra (MIT), Mark Eisen (Penn), and Alejandro Ribeiro (Penn), "Shakespeare and Company: The Collaboration with Marlowe on Henry VI" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Poetry & Poetics: Orchid Tierney, WIP “The Durable and Durational Extension of Language.” 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge Graduate Revision Workshop: Elias Rodriques : “The Dangers of Social Control: Criminological Histories of the Slave Patrol and Edward P Jones’ The Known World.” 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 330 Gen/Sex, Premodern Studies: Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330 Cities of Sleep ( CANCELED ) 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401 Cinema Studies: Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve in conversation with Alec Sokolow 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Arts Cafe (Kelly Writers House)	Cinema Studies Colloquium with Suzanne Gauch 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM TBA CTL Workshop: Paul Saint-Amour, “Teaching Theory and Criticism.” 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135	Mod/Con: Micah Del Rosario, WIP "No Crying in Public: Whiteness, the 2nd Person, and the Comic Sense in Rhys' Non-Caribbean Fiction." 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge Latitudes: David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, "Memorializing Disability: Contemplating Less Capacitated Alternative Citizenries." 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM FBH 222	AUCTORITAS - 9th Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Conference 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Rm 626/627 Van Pelt Library Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Grad Center, 2nd floor conference room Don James McLaughlin "Hydrophobia's Doppelgänger: The Specter of Spontaneity in Early American Rabies Narratives." 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM American Philosophical Society, (104 S. 5th St)	Black Cultural Studies Collective: Historiographies of Racial Trauma 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM Annenberg School of Communication (ASC) 3620 Walnut Street
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	Publishing and Professionalization Workshop 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge GEA Workshop: Marshall Brown (Washington University, ed. Modern Language Quarterly), Jim English and David Eng, "Publishing and Professionalization." 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge Material Texts: Mary Carruthers (NYU), 2017 Rosenbach Lectures Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Bystander Intervention and De-escalation Training Workshop 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM Annenberg School for Communication, room 500 AmLit: Mark Rifkin Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge	Prospective PhD Students Visit (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall	Doctoral Dissertation Defense with Jackie Burek: "Mending a Broken Chain: Continuous History and Literary Form in England and Wales, 1125-1450" 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330
Material Texts: Mary Carruthers (NYU), 2017 Rosenbach Lectures Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Cinema and Media Studies: Catherine Grant, “What Can the Portrait-Homage do for Film Star Studies.” 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBH 401	Recruitment Luncheon for Prospective Graduate Students 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Cozara Restaurant 3200 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104	Kathryn Bond Stockton: "Seductive Praxis: Racing, Reading, Fishing, Kissing." 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401 Material Texts: Mary Carruthers (NYU), 2017 Rosenbach Lectures Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
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	Material Texts: Zachary Lesser, "Million Dollar Xeroxes: Early Modern Bibliography between UMI and EEBO" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Faculty Meeting 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM FBH Faculty Lounge Gen/Sex: Talk by Bobby Benedicto (Art History & Communication Studies, McGill) — "Fatal Sex: On Gay Narcissism, Racial Violence, and the Death of Suicide" 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Grad Student Lounge (330 FBH)	Cinema and Media Studies Colloquium Jed Esty “ Is the American Western an Irish Genre? John Ford and Empire” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH 330 Premodern Studies: Erika Smith Harman (University of Pennsylvania) “Poets, Preachers and Unresolvable Questions.” 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Louge, room 330 Black Cultural Studies Collective: Visiting scholar Dr. Sarah Stefana Smith 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Africana Studies Seminar Room	Disability Studies: "Disability Studies: A History" Conference 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Arch 208 on Thursday and Stitler Hall [Silverstein Fourm] on Friday
Learning from Mandela with Rita Barnard 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Center for Africana Studies 3401 Walnut St. 3rd Floor Jean-Christophe Cloutier and Brent Hayes Edwards Present Claude McKay's AMIABLE WITH BIG TEETH 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Penn Book Center 130 S Philadelphia, PA 19104