English Department Events Calendar

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					Job Placement Group: Mock Interviews 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM FBH Faculty Lounge Mod/Con: Transpacific Modernisms Reading Group 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
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	Material Texts: Lisa Gitelman (New York University), “Typographical Hallucinations” 5:15 PM to 7:15 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		Premodern Studies: Dr. Alicia Meyer 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM TBA	Latinx Studies: Works-in-Progress: Gema Valencia-Turco and Liz Rose 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Zoom The English UAB Presents: Advance Registration Office Hours 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 135 (FBH 135)	The English UAB Presents: Advance Registration Office Hours 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 135 (FBH 135)
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	Material Texts: Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin), “‘The Need of a Bibliography’: Early Attempts at a Comprehensive List of American Books” 5:15 PM to 7:15 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	Indigenous Studies Symposium 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)	Penn English Program in London Fall 2025 Info Session 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Faculty Lounge, Fisher Bennett Hall 135 Indigenous Studies Symposium 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)	Mod/Con: Roundtable on Trans-Pacific Modernisms, with Nan Zhang (Hong Kong U), Doug Mao (Hopkins), and Nan Da (Hopkins) 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135	The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis spotligths ASAM Faculty Director David Eng in an event with Shinhee Han, PhD 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM In person event at the Asian Art Archive in America in Brooklyn, NY
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	Penn Summer Abroad in London Info Session 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135) Material Texts: Simon Martin (Penn Museum), “Getting Stones to Speak: The Decipherment of Maya Script and What It Has to Tell Us” 5:15 PM to 7:15 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	Faculty Meeting (3:30–5:00pm) 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)	Premodern Studies: Dr. Basil Price: "The Postcolonial Sagas: The Politics of Failure in Later Medieval Iceland (1264-1500)" 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM TBA	Latinx Studies: Working Group Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Zoom
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	Material Texts: Thomas Rainer (University of Zurich), “Polished Nails and Polished Parchment: Nægel-seax, Scraping Knives, and the Perfection of Writing in Insular and Carolingian Manuscripts” 5:15 PM to 7:15 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			Thanksgiving Break (All day) Penn Campus »

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge

Mod/Con: Transpacific Modernisms Reading Group

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

Material Texts: Lisa Gitelman (New York University), “Typographical Hallucinations”

5:15 PM to 7:15 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

Premodern Studies: Dr. Alicia Meyer

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

TBA

Latinx Studies: Works-in-Progress: Gema Valencia-Turco and Liz Rose

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Zoom

The English UAB Presents: Advance Registration Office Hours

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall 135 (FBH 135)

The English UAB Presents: Advance Registration Office Hours

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall 135 (FBH 135)

Material Texts: Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin), “‘The Need of a Bibliography’: Early Attempts at a Comprehensive List of American Books”

5:15 PM to 7:15 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

Indigenous Studies Symposium

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)

Penn English Program in London Fall 2025 Info Session

10:15 AM to 11:15 AM

Faculty Lounge, Fisher Bennett Hall 135

Indigenous Studies Symposium

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)

Mod/Con: Roundtable on Trans-Pacific Modernisms, with Nan Zhang (Hong Kong U), Doug Mao (Hopkins), and Nan Da (Hopkins)

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis spotligths ASAM Faculty Director David Eng in an event with Shinhee Han, PhD

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

In person event at the Asian Art Archive in America in Brooklyn, NY

Penn Summer Abroad in London Info Session

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

Material Texts: Simon Martin (Penn Museum), “Getting Stones to Speak: The Decipherment of Maya Script and What It Has to Tell Us”

5:15 PM to 7:15 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

Faculty Meeting (3:30–5:00pm)

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)

Premodern Studies: Dr. Basil Price: "The Postcolonial Sagas: The Politics of Failure in Later Medieval Iceland (1264-1500)"

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

TBA

Latinx Studies: Working Group Meeting

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Zoom

November, 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024