The Department of English's History of a Book seminar is a biannual series of lectures/discussions on how a book of criticism came to be. Guest speakers bring to the table not a work in progress, but a finished book, between covers, and they explain how it got made. Authors…
"Queer Immobility and the History of the Novel"
For English Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Lunch will be provided.
Film screening and discussion. Dept. of English Co-sponsored event.
Kevin Young, biography:
http://www.blueflowerarts.com/booking/kevin-young
Intersections is a working group committed to promoting the interdisciplinary study of race, gender, class and sexuality in literature and cultural studies. With the aim of supporting graduate research and cultivating a dynamic scholarly community focused on…
Intersections Joint Lecture/Conversation: A Jazz Studies Critical Conversation
Brent Edwards: http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/381
Kevin Young: http://www.blueflowerarts.com/booking/kevin-young
Intersections is a working group committed to promoting the interdisciplinary study of race, gender, class and…
Reading group open to faculty and graduate students. Contact Andrew Cole at [email protected] for more details.
Samo Tomšič is currently a Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin. He studied at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, specializing in modern European philosophy, structuralism, and psychoanalysis…
"After Benjamin: Theorizing Visual Culture in the Victorian Mediascape"
For English Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Lunch will be provided.
"Is the (American) Western an Irish Genre?: John Ford and Empire"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Conversation between experimental filmmaker Alex Rivera and Prof. Carlos Decena of Rutgers University on borders, film, and politics. Co-sponsored by the Certificate in Latino Studies.
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679): Drama, Politics, Religion and Aeshetics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and Europe
University Graduate Alum Conference, "Many Minds, Many Stripes"
Department of English Graduate Alumni Reception
"Writing Seminar Papers"
"Erasmus and the Invention of Literature"
Lunch will be provided.
"Doctrines and Credibility: Nuclear Strategy, Rawlsian Liberalism, and New Journalism"
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.