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Upcoming Graduate Events

September 29, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

We are excited to welcome Jean-Christophe Cloutier (University of Pennsylvania) for a talk titled “These thoughts were all in French, almost untranslatable”: The Bilingual Manuscript Notebooks of Kerouac’s Maggie Cassidy....

October 3, 2025 (Friday)
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

October 6, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

October 13, 2025 (Monday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

 

Featuring: Kunio Shin (University of Tokyo) and Ryan Johnson (University of Melbourne)

Co-sponsors: Department of East Asian Languages Cultures, Center for East Asian Studies

 

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

October 17, 2025 (Friday)
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Online (on Zoom)

 

From the Cambridge English Dictionary:

salon noun /sæˈlɔ̃, səˈlɑn/

a regular meeting of important or influential people, esp. of writers or artists at the house of someone famous or important: ...

October 20, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Sponsored by Gen/Sex, AmLit, Mod/Con, and the Undergraduate Discretionary Fund. 

October 27, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

October 30, 2025 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

November 3, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Graduate Student Lounge (room 330)

 

 

 

November 10, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

November 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Grad Lounge (room 330)

November 17, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

November 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

November 24, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

December 1, 2025 (Monday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

January 21, 2026 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330

February 5, 2026 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

February 12, 2026 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

 

This event will be co-sponsored by the AmLit, Latitudes, and Latinx Studies Working Groups in the Department of English, and by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS).

 

February 19, 2026 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

February 27, 2026 (Friday)
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

American Grammar Bookstore (2046 N. Front Street)

Ruben Reyes, Jr. will give a reading from his novel, Archive of Unknown...

March 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330

April 2, 2026 (Thursday)
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Fisher Fine Arts Library

Salt lakes are some of the world’s most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of them—from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea—are drying up, a harbinger of dust storms, rising sea levels, and worsening human health. In this dazzling love letter to...

April 20, 2026 (Monday)
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom