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March 22, 2019 (Friday)
Fontaine Dinner (All day) TBD Time TBD

March 25, 2019 (Monday)
abd CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH
M@P: Discussion of Alexander Key's "Language Between God and the Poets" 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM 440 Williams Hall For more information, contact the organizers at pennmedieval@gmail.com.
Material Texts: Matthew Brown (Iowa), “A Poetics of Colportage: Pamphlets and Chapbooks in Revolutionary-Era British America” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

March 26, 2019 (Tuesday)
Latitudes: Discussion of Petrus Liu's "Queer Marxism in Two Chinas" 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) In preparation for the ...
Res-Vic: Talk by Kathryn Temple: “What's Love Got to Do With it? Desire, Disgust, and Feeling Just” 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge) Contact Cassidy at cholahan@sas.upenn.edu.

March 28, 2019 (Thursday)
Paleography: Working Group Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Van Pelt 623 For more information, contact Aylin at malcolma@sas.upenn.edu.
Mods: Julie Beth Napolin (The New School) 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

March 29, 2019 (Friday)
Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Graduate Student Center Conference Room (2nd floor) For more information, contact the organizers at pennthropocene@gmail.com.

April 1, 2019 (Monday)
Material Texts: Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins), "John Milton in the Printing House (1644)" 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

April 2, 2019 (Tuesday)
Poetry & Poetics: KWH: Informal Discussion with Ecopoets and Environmental Humanists Brian Teare and Allison Cobb 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk The Kelly Writers House will host an informal discussion with ecopoets and environmental humanists ...
Anthropocene and Animal Studies, Poetry & Poetics: Graduate Student Lunch with Brian Teare and Allison Cobb 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, dining room Please register for this event at ...

April 3, 2019 (Wednesday)
Graduate Student Town Hall 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge Town Hall to coordinate Department Speaker Series and Graduate Group Coordinators for 2019-20.
Med/Ren: Erika Lin 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

April 5, 2019 (Friday) to April 6, 2019 (Saturday)
Gen/Sex: Conference - Queer Urgencies (All day) TBD

April 8, 2019 (Monday)
Graduate Revision Workshop: Martine Tchitchihe 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330
Material Texts: Sarah Horowitz (Haverford), “Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Illustrators of the Wig and Powder School: British Gift Books of the 1890s” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

April 9, 2019 (Tuesday)
AmLit: Elias Rodriques (WIP) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge, room 330

April 11, 2019 (Thursday)
Latitudes: Prof. P.K. Datta, “Tagore’s Experiments in Nationalism: Viswabharati” (All day) Location TBA \| Time TBA Latitudes welcomes Prof. P.K. Datta of the Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Paleography: Working Group Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Van Pelt 623 For more information, contact Aylin at malcolma@sas.upenn.edu.

April 12, 2019 (Friday)
firstyears 50-Book Exam Lists Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall
Graduate Spring Language Exams (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 15, 2019 (Monday)
CTL Workshop: "Digital Media in the Classroom" with Rahul Mukherjee 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn), “The Book as Body, the Life as Editions: From Quevedo to Machado (de Asssis)” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

April 16, 2019 (Tuesday)
Mods: Discussion of Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss" 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)

April 17, 2019 (Wednesday)
Dissertation Defense: Eleni Palis, “Theorizing Film Quotation: Re-Membering Classical Hollywood in Contemporary American Cinema” 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

April 19, 2019 (Friday)
thirdyears Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 22, 2019 (Monday)
M@P: Discussion of Carissa Harris's "Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain" 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM 440 Williams Hall For more information, contact the organizers at pennmedieval@gmail.com.
Material Texts: Michael Suarez (Virginia), “Annotation, Editing, and the Material Text: The Case of Alexander Pope and His Contemporaries” 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

April 24, 2019 (Wednesday)
fifthyears Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

April 25, 2019 (Thursday)
CTL Workshop: "The Art of the Syllabus" with Dagmawi Woubshet 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

April 26, 2019 (Friday)
secondyears Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall
Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Working Group Meeting 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Graduate Student Center Conference Room (2nd floor) For more information, contact the organizers at pennthropocene@gmail.com.

April 29, 2019 (Monday)
Graduate Revision Workshop: TBA 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330

May 15, 2019 (Wednesday)
Dissertation Defense: Chris Mustazza, "Speech labs: Language experiments, early poetry audio archives, and the poetic record" 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

August 26, 2019 (Monday)
secondyears Graduate 50 Book Exams and Welcome Back 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Faculty Offices
firstyears Graduate Orientation Luncheon 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Graduate 50-Book Exam Party 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Graduate Lounge

September 4, 2019 (Wednesday)
Graduate 50 Book Exams Reports due to Ann Marie Pitts (All day) FBH

September 12, 2019 (Thursday)
Collation and Department Party 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM Log in with Penn Key for location details

October 11, 2019 (Friday)
fifthyears WIPs Sign-up Deadline (All day) FBH WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Deadline

October 18, 2019 (Friday)
thirdyears Field Exams Scheduled Third Years and Faculty Committees (All day) FBH Dates for written and oral portions of Field Exams should be scheduled. Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10, 2018...

October 19, 2019 (Saturday)
Graduate Fall Language Exam (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

November 8, 2019 (Friday) to December 10, 2019 (Tuesday)
thirdyears Graduate Field Exams (Written) Third Years and Faculty Committees (All day) FBH Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10, 2018). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place within 2 weeks of the...

November 8, 2019 (Friday)
fourthyears, fifthyears Kislak Fellowship Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

November 27, 2019 (Wednesday)
fifthyears Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years Faculty and Students 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

February 1, 2020 (Saturday)
fifthyears Graduate SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (All day) FBH SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (Students who expect to complete their dissertation in 2019-20 are ineligible)
fifthyears, sixthyears Critical Writing Graduate Teaching Fellowships Applications Due to Val Ross (All day) FBH

February 7, 2020 (Friday)
fourthyears, fifthyears King’s College Fellowship Applications Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH
fifthyears WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Deadline (All day) FBH
Graduate Admissions Final Meeting Graduate Admissions Committee 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

February 12, 2020 (Wednesday)
firstyears, secondyears 50-Book and Field Exam Discussion 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge 50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm) (First Years) Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm) (Second Years)

February 15, 2020 (Saturday)
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Graduate Division (All day) FBH

March 1, 2020 (Sunday)
fourthyears Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

March 13, 2020 (Friday)
firstyears 50-Book Exam Committee Chair must be selected; notify Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

March 17, 2020 (Tuesday) to March 19, 2020 (Thursday)
Graduate Recruitment Days Faculty and Students (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

March 25, 2020 (Wednesday)
abd CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

April 8, 2020 (Wednesday)
Graduate Student Town Hall 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge Town Hall to coordinate Department Speaker Series and Graduate Group Coordinators for 2019-20.

April 12, 2020 (Sunday)
firstyears 50-Book Exam Lists Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall
Graduate Spring Language Exams (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 19, 2020 (Sunday)
thirdyears Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 24, 2020 (Friday)
fifthyears Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

April 26, 2020 (Sunday)
secondyears Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall