Friday Forum Series, Fall 2003

September 12th

Fall Alumni/ae Lecture: Professor David Adams, Ohio State University, "Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel."

September 19th

Professor Richard Rambuss,Emory University, "Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder."

October 3rd

2 p.m.- Gail Scott "On New Fiction," Plus event (room 4406)

4 p.m.- Professor Sabine Golz, University of Iowa, "On Walter Benjamin's 'Little History of Photography.'"

October 10th

Job Forum

October 17th

2 p.m.- "Shaming AI" - a Panel Discussion featuring Professors Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick and Elizabeth Wilson (visiting, Princeton University), co-sponsored with the Womens' Studies Program (room 4406).

4 p.m.- Professor David Bromwich, Yale University, "The Sublime in Burke and Shakespeare."

October 24th

4 p.m.- Professor Patricia Laurence, The City College, "On Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes:Bloomsbury, Modernism, andChina."

October 31st

4 p.m.- "Boxing Day Comes Early": A Panel Discussion on Art Boxes (as in Joseph Cornell), featuring Professors Mary Ann Caws, Wayne Koestenbaum, and contemporary box maker, Ann Marie Levine.

November 7th

4 p.m.- Mark Naison, "On Hip-Hop."

November 14th

4 p.m.- Auerbach Fest, co-sponsored with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Medieval Studies Program.

November 21st

4 p.m.- Professor Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, Topic TBA.

December 5th

4 p.m.- Professor Wendy Fairey, Brooklyn College, Reading from a collection of new short stories.

December 12th

4 p.m.- American Studies Panel "War and 19th Century American Literature: A Conversation" Sarah Chinn, Associate Professor of English,HunterCollege, CUNY Duncan Faherty, Assistant Professor of English,QueensCollege, CUNY Mark Noonan, Assistant Professor of English,New York CityCollegeofTechnology, CUNY

December 19th

4. p.m.- FallFacultyLecture- Professor Scott Westrem- Topic TBA.

6 p.m.- Revels