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March 30, 2020 (Monday)
Material Texts: Robert Darnton (Harvard): "Pirate publishing during the eighteenth century" --CANCELED 5:15 PM to 6:30 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

April 2, 2020 (Thursday)
Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Kim Fortun's "Ethnography in Late Industrialism" and selections from Amitav Ghosh's "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable"--CANCELED 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Williams 616
Latitudes: Julie Beth Napolin (The New School) on "Sinister Resonance: The Extraction of Sound and Language in Conrad and Du Bois--CANCELED 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330 Latitudes welcomes Julie Beth Napolin (New School) for a talk titled "Sinister Resonance: The Extraction of Sound and Language in Conrad and Du Bois," which will include material from Dr. Napolin's second book project that we will workshop together...

April 6, 2020 (Monday)
Material Texts: Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews) and Arthur der Weduwen (St. Andrews): "Materializing the Immaterial. Recovering the lost books of Early Modern Europe"--CANCELED 5:15 PM to 6:30 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

April 9, 2020 (Thursday)
GEA Meeting--CANCELED 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall 330

April 10, 2020 (Friday)
firstyears 50-Book Exam Lists Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 13, 2020 (Monday)
Material Texts: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): "Sterne's Punctuation, Once Again: A Comparative Approach" --CANCELED 5:15 PM to 6:30 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

April 15, 2020 (Wednesday)
Mods: John Greaney Talk--CANCELED 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge, Room 330

April 17, 2020 (Friday)
Graduate Spring Language Exams (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall
thirdyears Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall
M@P: 12th-Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Conference - CANCELED Technique & Technology in the Middle Ages 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Van Pelt Library

April 20, 2020 (Monday)
Material Texts: Lara Cohen (Swarthmore): "Paschal Beverly Randolph's Occult Undergrounds" --CANCELED 5:15 PM to 6:30 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
AmLit: Prof. Monica Huerta (Princeton) - POSTPONED 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330) Coordinated by Jane Robbins Mize and Ethan Plaue.

April 24, 2020 (Friday)
secondyears Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 27, 2020 (Monday)
Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn): "The Persistence of the Ephemera. The Printed Word and the Non-Book Texts" --CANCELED 5:15 PM to 6:30 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

April 30, 2020 (Thursday)
Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Selections from John Bellamy Foster's "Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature" and "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology"--CANCELED 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Williams 616

August 24, 2020 (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, 2020 (Friday)
Graduate 50 Book Exams Reports due to Ann Marie Pitts (All day) FBH

September 10, 2020 (Thursday)
Collation and Department Party 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Log in with Penn Key for location details

October 9, 2020 (Friday)
fifthyears WIPs Sign-up Deadline (All day) FBH WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Deadline

October 16, 2020 (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, 2020 (Monday)
Graduate Fall Language Exam (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

November 8, 2020 (Sunday)
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 13, 2020 (Friday)
fourthyears, fifthyears Kislak Fellowship Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

November 25, 2020 (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 10, 2021 (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 12, 2021 (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 15, 2021 (Monday)
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Graduate Division (All day) FBH

March 1, 2021 (Monday)
fourthyears Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

March 25, 2021 (Thursday)
abd CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

April 12, 2021 (Monday)
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, 2021 (Monday)
thirdyears Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 26, 2021 (Monday)
secondyears Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall