Events Archive

2018 - 2019

Colloquia
Oct 22
Medieval Colloquium
Patricia Ingham, Department of English, Indiana University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Curious Creatures: Sentience, Imitation, and the Case of the Medieval Ape
University events, Performances
Oct 19
Workshop presentation of a new musical, Mad Dreams.
Wallace Theater (All day)

A workshop production of Bob Sandberg's new musical Mad Dreams, a re-imagining of A Midsummer Night's Dream, will be at the Lewis Center's Wallace Theater, this coming weekend, October 19-21. It's free but advance ticketing is recommended. More information is here:
Readings
Oct 17
"Historical Poetics Reading Group"
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM
Colloquia
Oct 16
18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium
Ingrid Horrocks (English *06), School of English and Media Studies, Massey University, New Zealand
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Willing Wandering: Being mobile between creative and critical imaginaries"

 
Performances
Oct 16
Special Preview Screening of Generation Wealth
Garden Theater, Nassau Street 4: 30 PM

Followed by Q&A with Lauren Greenfield and Professor Anne Cheng
Colloquia
Oct 15
Victorian Colloquium and the University Center for Human Values
Talia Schaffer, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University and Natalie Prizel, Council of the Humanities, English Department, and Humanistic Studies, Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Panel Discussion:  Ethics and Victorian Studies

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Colloquia
Oct 15
Theory Colloquium
Christiane Fellbaum, Department of Computer Science, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

Meaning in Language:  A Computer's Perspective
Lectures
Oct 11
Against Primordial Asian America: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions
David S. Roh is associate professor of English and director of the Digital Matters Lab at the University of Utah, where he specializes in digital humanities and Asian American literature. He is the author of Illegal Literature (University of Minnesota Press), and co-editor of Techno-Orientalism (Rutgers University Press).
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series-d...
Colloquia
Oct 11
Postcolonial Colloquium
Ato Quayson, Department of English, New York University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

On Postcolonial Tragedy: Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts
Lectures
Oct 08
Claudia Johnson on Jane Austen’s “The Beautifull Cassandra”
Claudia L. Johnson
Princeton Public Library - Community Room 7: 00 PM

Claudia Johnson, a leading Austen scholar, discusses “The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters,” the “novel in miniature” written by Jane Austen when
University events, Symposia/Conferences, Lectures
Oct 04
Domestic Violence: The Limits and Possibilities of a Concept
Betts Auditorium 4: 30 PM

Free and open to the public.

For full program go to: http://german.princeton.edu/event/domestic-violence-the-limits-and-possi...

 

 

 

 
Symposia/Conferences
Oct 03
Exploring Global Narratives: Navigating Identity, Resistance, & Gender Through Storytelling
Alexis Okeowo, Journalist and Princeton alumna
McCormick 101 6: 00 PM

Co-Sponsored by The Department of English

 

Princeton In Africa presents: Exploring Global Narratives: Navigating Identity, Resistance, & Gender Through Storytelling
Graduate dates/deadlines
Oct 03
20 C Workshop Series
Cate Mahoney, Princeton University English Department
Hinds Library/McCosh B14 12: 00 PM

"'The poem is correspondingly gratified': Frank O’Hara’s Confidential Poetics"

Papers will be precirculated one week in advance.  Please contact Professor Joshua Kotin or Professor Kinohi Nishikawa if you have any questions about this workshop. 
Symposia/Conferences, Lectures
Oct 03
The Gauss Seminars in Criticism seminar
TBA after RSVP 12: 00 PM

This seminar is directed by an English department professor and includes a lecture on October 2, 2018 at 5pm.

RSVP's required; information in poster
Symposia/Conferences, Lectures
Oct 02
The Gauss Seminars in Criticism lecture
Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Betts Auditorium 5: 00 PM

This lecture is directed by an English department facutly member and open to the public.
Colloquia
Oct 01
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Tom Pickard, Poet
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

A Reading with Tom Pickard
Graduate dates/deadlines
Sep 28
Final Public Oral Exam--Rebecca Rosen
Rebecca M. Rosen, Department of English, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 1: 00 PM

Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790

Dissertation Advisers:  Sophie Gee, William Gleason, Sarah Rivett
Colloquia
Sep 27
Renaissance Colloquium
David Como, Department of History, Stanford University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press

Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
Lectures
Sep 27
(Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age
David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, and graduate chair of the Department of English of the University of Pennsylvania.
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series-d...

 

 
Final Public Orals
Sep 27
Final Public Oral Exam--Daniel M. Blank
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 30 PM

Shakespeare and the Spectacle of University Drama

Dissertation Advisers:  Leonard Barkan, Jeff Dolven, Russ Leo, Nigel Smith

The dissertation is available for review in the Department of English office, 22 McCosh Hall.

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