English Department Events Calendar

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		GEA Workshop: Being in Coursework 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Fisher Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge, Rm. 330	Humor is Path to the Human: African American Poetry's Activism of Laughter 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Penn Lightbulb Cafe Suzanne Roberts Theatre 480 South Broad Street, Philadelphia	Lunch Meeting with Graduate Students and Prof. Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) Department Lecture: Prof. Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin), "A 9th Century Arab Dhow and Its Stories of Early Globalism: Art, World-Voyaging, and Industrial Modernity in the Global Middle Ages” 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
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	Material Texts: Liza Blake (Toronto): "Margaret Cavendish's Books and Some Alternate Histories of Textual Bibliography" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	GEA Meeting 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Graduate Lounge of Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330		Latitudes: Discussion of Said and Aboul-Ela 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Graduate Student Lounge of Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330
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	Material Texts: Daniel Jütte (NYU): "Hammering out the Reformation? Luther’s 95 Theses as a Material Text" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	GEA Workshop: Teaching Beyond the Requirements 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330 Gen/Sex: Lecture: "Towards an Environmental Theory of Sexuality," Greta LaFleur (Yale) 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge, Rm. 330	Who Belongs at Home? 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Lightbox Film Center, 3701 Chestnut Street Paul Hendrickson on Frank Lloyd Wright 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Kelly Writers House Arts Cafe	Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Reading Discussion: Deborah R. Coen – Climate in Motion (2018) 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Williams Hall, Room 616 The Legacy of 1619 Conference - Thursday 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM Class of ’49 Auditorium Houston Hall, Room 230	The Legacy of 1619 Conference - Friday 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) 118 S 36th St, Philadelphia	The Legacy of 1619 Conference - Saturday 10:30 AM to 8:00 PM Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Room 602
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The Legacy of 1619 Conference - Sunday 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Location TBA	Material Texts: Deidre Lynch (Harvard): "Charles Lamb’s Paperwork" 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Penn Violence Prevention Workshop 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Student Lounge, Room 330 Celebrate /Queer Faith/ by Melissa Sanchez 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)	English Department Spring Courses Sneak Peak 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Undergraduate Lounge (second floor landing) Book celebration for Lorene Cary's /Ladysitting/ 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Kelly Writers House and St. Mary's Church	Latitudes: Professor Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology) on "The Promise of Infrastructure" and More 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Graduate Lounge of Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330 Poetry & Poetics: Poetry and Poetics: Welcome Back & Discussion of Chris Nealon's The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century. 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, Faculty Lounge, Room 135
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	Material Texts: David Kazanjian 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library	Mod/Con: Devorah Fischler, Work in Progress - CANCELED 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge Censorship & Democracy: From Whitman to the 21st Century 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor	Premodern Studies: Phyllis Rackin Lecture: Renaissance Women's Writing and the Problem of the Fragment 3:45 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401 Interactive Discussion of Lorene Cary’s newest book, Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century. 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Sweeten Alumni House 3533 Locust Walk Philadelphia PA, 19104