English Department Lectures and Events 2007-08
| Thursday September 27 5:00 p.m. |
Richard Sieburth, New York University Traditore-Traduttore: Treason & Translation at Saint Elizabeth's Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. Co-sponsored by the Geri Braman Hill Lecture Series and the Literary Arts Program at Brown University, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the departments of Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, Modern Culture & Media and The Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture. |
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Graduate Student Lecture
| Thursday October 4 5:00 p.m. |
Lee Edelman, Tufts University Learning Nothing: Bad Education List 120, 64 College St. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Modern Culture and Media and The Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the Sarah Doyle Women's Center and the LGBTQ Resource Center. |
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Conference: Reading Digital Literature
Conference in German Studies October 4-7. For more information, see the Conference webpage. Co-sponsored by the English Department.
Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Director, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday October 10 6:30 p.m. |
Thulani Davis, New York University On Historical Memoir: My Confederate Kinfolk Salomon 001 |
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Colloquium: "The Flowering of Baudelaire"Hosted by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, October 18-20. For more information, see the Cogut Center's event information on The Flowering of Baudelaire |
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Conference: Sonic Focus
Conference in Modern Culture and Media, opening October 20 (with final events on November 16). For more information, see the Conference webpage. Co-sponsored by the English Department.
Conference: Theories of the Novel Now
A Conference in Celebration of Forty Years of NOVEL November 9-10. For more information, see Novel's Conference webpage.
Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Director, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday November 14 6:30 p.m. |
Scott Russell Sanders '67, Indiana University On Personal Nonfiction: The Paradise of Bombs, A Private History of Awe Salomon 001 |
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The Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture
| Thursday November 15 5:00 p.m. |
D.A. Miller From style to virtuosity: Fellini's 8 1/2 Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. Sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture & Media and The Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, and the Department of English. |
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Nonfiction Lecture: Jimmie Briggs
| Tuesday December 4 4:00 p.m. |
Jimmie Briggs Covering the Legacy of War Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. Co-sponsored by: Africana Studies Department and Rites and Reason Theatre, the Watson Institute for International Studies, and the Third World Center. |
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Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Director, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday February 20 6:30 p.m. |
Dava Sobel Science Narrative: Galileo's Daughter, Longitude Salomon 001 Book signing to follow |
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Conference; "Form and Transformation" from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages
| 2008 New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, Saturday, March 1. For more information, see the Graduate Medieval Studies Program's Conference webpage. Co-sponsored by the English Department. | 
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| Monday March 3 5 p.m. |
Julie Stone Peters, Columbia University Savage Dionysus: Anthropology, Anti-Aesthetic Performance, and the Global Fin de Siècle Brown/RISD Hillel The Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center 80 Brown St. |
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Colloquium: Resistances: New Directions in American Literary and Cultural Studies
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The David H. Hirsch Memorial Colloquium in American Literature and Culture Friday March 7 – John Carter Brown Library Saturday March 8 – Smith Buonanno 106 This colloquium is made possible by a generous gift from Robert R. and Susan Clark Levine '73. |
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Nonfiction Lecture: Tracy Breton
| Wednesday March 12 6:30 p.m. |
Tracy Breton, Brown University A Life of Investigative Journalism Brown/RISD Hillel 80 Brown St. 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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| Thursday March 13 5:00 p.m. |
Janet Halley, Harvard Law School Representing Rape: Feminist Rules in the Law of War Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature and is co-sponsored by Modern Culture and Media and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, the Global Security Program at the Watson Institute for International Studies, and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women |
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| Friday April 4 5:00 p.m. |
What Can I Do With a Degree in English? -- Alumni Perspectives on Life After Brown Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall Panel discussion by English concentration alumni, followed by a reception. See more information about the alumni survey. Sponsored by the English Department and the Wetmore Fund for Literature. |
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| Tuesday April 8 5:00 p.m. |
Gail Kern Paster, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library Dialogue of Skin and Skull in Holbein and Hamlet Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature and is co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women |
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Nonfiction Lecture: Chet Raymo
| Wednesday April 9 6:00 p.m. |
Chet Raymo, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Stonehill College Writing about Science and Nature Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St. 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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| Monday April 21 5:00 p.m. |
Warren Montag, Occidental College The Late Althusser: Philosophy of the Void or Materialism of the Encounter Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. Sponsored by the Deparment of Modern Culture and Media. Co-sponsored by the English Department |
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Nonfiction Lecture: Dan Barry
| Tuesday April 22 4:00 p.m. |
Dan Barry, New York Times Columnist, memoir writer, and former Providence Journal reporter Writing About People and Place Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. Book signing to follow 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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Conference: The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities
| Conference in French Studies with Art Historian Christine Ross. Thursday and Friday, April 24-25. For more information, see the Department of French Studies' Conference webpage. Cosponsored by the English Department. | 
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Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Director, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Monday May 5 6:30 p.m. |
Davis Guggenheim '86 Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture On Film Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth Salomon 101 |
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