English Department Events Calendar

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	Penn Perspectives (All day) Cohen Hall, Room G17	Elias Rodriques' paper “The Dangers of Social Control: Criminological Histories of the Slave Patrol and Edward P Jones’ The Know World.” 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM FBH 330 AmLit, Black Cultural Studies Collective, Material Texts: Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton): "The Book Reads You: William Melvin Kelley's Typographic Imagination." 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM FBH Graduate Lounge Poetry & Poetics: Laynie Brown and Pattie McCarthy 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, 222	Town Hall Meeting for grads and faculty to discuss next year’s program for the Department Lecture Series and Working Groups 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge Reading session for the Graduate Asian American Studies group at Penn (works by Lisa Lowe) 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH 330 Machine-aided close listening: Prosthetic synaesthesia and the 3D phonotext 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Vitale II 6th Floor of Van Pelt	Global Enlightenment Conference @Princeton University (All day) Princeton University
Latitudes: WIP “Rewriting Vietnam: Fallen Fathers and Enemy Brothers in The Zenith.” 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330 Material Texts: Tiffany Stern (Oxford), "‘Playing Songs and Singing Plays: Ballads and Plays in the Time of Shakespeare" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	CTL Workshop "Supporting Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Students" 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM FBH Grad. Lounge 330 Professor Lisa Lowe "Archives, Materiality, and Unthought Knowns” 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 401 Poetry & Poetics: Pattie McCarthy and Laynie Browne 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM FBH Grad Lounge	Gen/Sex: WIP w/ Eleni Palis (Penn English) - "Quotation and Authorship: The Cinephilic and Critical Interventions of the Auteur" 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM 330 FBH (Graduate Student Lounge) GEA Meeting 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330 Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Luce Irigaray & Michael Marder’s Through Vegetal Being 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Grad Center, 2nd floor conference room
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	Material Texts: Peter Kornicki (Cambridge), "The Secret worlds of Manuscripts in Japan and Korea" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Media artist and writer Fran Ilich will present “Another Culture is Possible. A brief retrospective of a movable co-op adhered to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, dealing with conceptual entrepreneurism, financial insurgency, and narrative m 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM FBH 419 Latitudes, Premodern Studies: Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut State University) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330 "The Horrors of a Porcelain Teacup in Jordan Peele's Get Out" 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM Harrison College House, Seminar Room M20	Cinema and Media Studies: Karen Fang, “Cinema Censorship and Media Citizenship in the Hong Kong Film Ten Years” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH 330 Workshop of Jody Ender’s new translation of the bawdy French medieval play “Margot’s Confession” 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge Book release party for Michael Gamer 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Kislak Center, Room 627, Van Pelt Library (6th floor) Black Cultural Studies Collective: BCSC Workshop, TBD 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Africana Seminar Room	Disability Studies: Leon Hilton (Penn), work-in-progress 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM FBH Grad Lounge Premodern Studies: Jody Enders, Visiting Lecturer "Medieval Church Porn? French Farce Peeks in on the Confessional” 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM FBH 222 (next to the stairwell, 2nd floor) The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the 19th Century Atlantic World 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Princeton NJ 08542 609.497.1600	Latitudes: Brooke Stanley, "Eating and Environment in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction and Nonfiction." 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM FBH Grad Lounge
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	Material Texts: Roger Chartier, "Sganarelle's Wages" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Graduate Revision Workshop: Meghan Hall: "'Subject unto Sicknesse': Plague Bills and Precarious Life in Sixteenth-Century England" 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 330 Cinema and Media Studies: Gerald Prince in conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Williams 543 Remembering Professor Nina Auerbach 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Kelly Writers House	Faculty Meeting 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge	"The Poetics of Mapping: Representing the Built Environment." (All day) FBH
Gen/Sex, Mod/Con: Laura Frost “A Century of Female Orgasm.” 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM FBH 222 War of the Worlds 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall room 401 Herman Beavers will present our 2017 Brave Testimony 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies ResVic: Gabrielle Starr (NYU) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330	Premodern Studies: Patricia Dailey, “Feeling Backward: Deor’s Poetics of Recall.” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330
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	Material Texts: Michael Suarez (Virginia), "The Museum Florentinum (1731ff) and the Material Texts of Antiquity" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library George Eliot and the Science of Description 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM FBH 139	Sigma Tau Delta ceremony 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM FBH 401 End of the Year Reception for Undergraduate Program 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Faculty Lounge (FBH 135) Final Projects from Junior Research Seminar 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM KWH	WIPs Workshop: Clare Mullaney, Sara Sligar, Erika Harman 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge	2017 SAS Teaching Award ceremony for Herman Beavers, Julia Bloch, Travis Lau, Mary Zaborskis! 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall Penn English Program Orientation Meeting for Fall 2017 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM Faculty Lounge (room 135), Fisher-Bennett Hall Gen/Sex, Poetry & Poetics: Erica Kaufman, “Queer Pedagogy.” 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM FBH Grad Lounge 330 End of the Year Party for Faculty, Staff, and Grad Students 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Drafting Room and Balcony Second Floor, The Study Hotel 20 South 33rd Street	Graduate Student Curatorial Series: Jacqueline Burek (English), “‘Cum Antiquis Cronicis’: History as Codex and Roll in the Later Middle Ages.” 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Lea Library Van Pelt Library (6th Floor)
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