English Department Lectures and Events 2008-09
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English
| Tuesday September 16 4:00 p.m. |
David L. Clark, McMaster University Imagining Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St. |
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New Vistas in African American Literary and Cultural Studies: Lecture Series 2008-09
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Series Organizer: Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
| Tuesday September 23 4:00 p.m. |
Mark Thompson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Critique of Nonviolence: Walter Benjamin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sovereignty Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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New Vistas in African American Literary and Cultural Studies: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
| Monday October 6 4:00 p.m. |
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison "They Lost Us the Beach": Dorothy West and the Geography of Class Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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New Vistas in African American Literary and Cultural Studies: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
| Tuesday October 14 4:00 p.m. |
Kevin Bell, University at Albany, State University of New York Non-cognitive Aspects of the City: Image as Rend in "Still/Here" Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English
| Tuesday October 21 4:00 p.m. |
Mary Favret, Indiana University Still Winter Falls Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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New Vistas in African American Literary and Cultural Studies: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
| Thursday November 6 4:00 p.m. |
Louis Chude-Sokei, University of California, Santa Cruz The Uncanny History of Minstrels and Machines: 1835-1901 Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English
| Monday November 10 5:00 p.m. |
Ian Baucom, Duke University Cicero's Ghost: The Atlantic, the Enemy, and the Laws of War Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St. |
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Lecture Series: German Studies and the Humanities: New Directions
German Studies lectures: September 16, October 23, October 30, and November 11. For more information, see the German Studies events webpage. Co-sponsored by the English Department.
Nonfiction Writing Program: True Stories
| Tuesday November 11 4:00 p.m. |
Caroline Dworin, Writer, The New York Times
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is funded by a Salomon Grant (Dean of the College) and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: Turning the Seams Inside Out: Fun with Conspicuous Editing
| Thursday December 4 4:00 p.m. |
Nick van der Kolk, Creator and Senior Producer for alt.NPR's Love and Radio podcast
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is funded by a Salomon Grant (Dean of the College) and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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New Scholarship in Early Modern Studies: Lecture Series 2008-09
Series Organizer: Coppélia Kahn, Professor of English
| Thursday February 5 5:00 p.m. |
Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapman's Ironic Homer Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature and co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English
| Monday February 9 5:00 p.m. |
Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania Peace, Prophecy, and Critical Futurities in Joyce and Beyond Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St. |
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New Scholarship in Early Modern Studies: Lecture Series 2008-09
Series Organizer: Coppélia Kahn, Professor of English
| Thursday February 19 5:00 p.m. |
Elliott Visconsi, Yale University The Literary Invention of the First Amendment Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature and co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. |
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| Tuesday February 24 4:00 p.m. |
Priscilla Wald, Duke University Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotech Revolution: Towards a Genomic Mythology Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This lecture is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature |
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Graduate Student Lecture
| Thursday March 5 5:00 p.m. |
Bill Brown, University of Chicago Subjects & Objects, Words & Things (Notes on Philip K. Dick) Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street Sponsored by the Department of English and the Zucker Family Fund. Co-sponsored by the Departments of American Civilization, Comparative Literature, History, History of Art and Architecture, and Modern Culture and Media and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: At the End of the Road: Reporting in the Seams
Tuesday March 10 7:00 p.m. |
C.J. Chivers, Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. |
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Talk: Thick Love: The Double Helix of Eros and Thanatos in Beloved
| Monday March 16 5:00 p.m. |
Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Symposium: A Hole in the Nation? American Literature After Deleuze
| Speakers: Branka Arsić, SUNY Albany David Jarraway, University of Ottawa Timothy Murphy, University of Oklahoma A response by Brian Evenson, Brown University Program in Literary Arts, will follow. Symposium Organizer: Timothy Bewes, Brown University Department of English Friday April 3 -- Smith Buonanno 106, Pembroke Campus This symposium is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: Narrative Journalism: Reporting, Organizing, Writing and Ethics
| Tuesday April 7 4:00 p.m. |
David Finkel, Reporter, The Washington Post Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-09
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English
| Thursday April 9 5:00 p.m. |
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University The Soldier's Dissent in Homer and Hobbes Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall |
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Talk: "The Cry of My People": Voicing against the Grain of Orality
| Monday April 13 5:00 p.m. |
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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The Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture
| Thursday April 23 5:00 p.m. |
Leo Bersani, UC Berkeley Ardent Masturbation (Descartes, Freud, et al.) Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Readings by Nonfiction Writing Program Award Winners 2008-2009
| Tuesday April 28 4:00 p.m. Brown Bookstore |
Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction: 1st Place: Kevin B. Roose, The Workers are Few, from The Unlikely Disciple Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing: Sandra E. Allen, A Story About Bobby David Rome Prize for Best Lyric Essay: Emily A. Silverman, 120/80 |
Talk: Baldwin's Sissy Heroics
| Thursday April 30 4:00 p.m. |
Marlon Ross, Professor of English, University of Virginia
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: Faculty Reading
| Monday May 4 6:30 p.m. |
Nonfiction Writing Faculty will read from their most recent books. Book signing to follow.
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. |
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