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Friday Forum Series, Fall 2006

Unless otherwise noted, all events occur on Friday at 4 p.m. in the English Program lounge (room 4406).

September 8                           

New Student Welcome / Orientation

September 15                          

4:30 p.m. Linda Hughes, Texas Christian University
“Why Poetry Matters: 19th Century Periodicals and the Publication of Poetry”
Michael Wolff Memorial lecture for the annual Research Society
for Victorian Periodicals Conference
Room 9205 (RSVP)
Reception to follow in English Program Lounge

September 22                          

No Classes

September 29                        

Job Forum

October 6                               

2 p.m. Workshop on the dissertation prospectus

4 p.m. "TALKING REPARATIONS" Celebrate the Launch of a special issue of Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory on "Performing Reparation: Practice, Methodology, and Process," edited by Joshua Chambers-Letson (NYU) and Robert G. Diaz (CUNY Graduate Center) Roundtable discussion with José Esteban Muñoz, May Joseph, Christine Bacareza Balance, and Grace Cho

October 11 (Wed.)                  

6 p.m. Conversations with Novelist Marilyn French [co-sponsored with Women's Studies and Feminist Press]

October 13                             

2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Area Group & Field Day
                                               

October  20                            

4 p.m. Ellen Tremper, Brooklyn College 'I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film'
                                               
6 p.m. Dana Gioia [co-sponsored with Center for the Humanities; Recital Hall]

October 27                            

2 p.m. Workshop on Conference Presentation

4 p.m. Honoring Norman Kelvin

November 3                         

2 p.m. Workshop on the oral examination

4 p.m. Rachel Brownstein and Nancy K. Miller "Uses of Memoir"
[co-sponsored with Women's Studies]

November 10                        

Ashley Dawson, College of Staten Island "Sapping the City: Structural Adjustment, Authoritarian Rule and Urban Insurrection in Chris Abani's Graceland"

November 13 (Mon)            

6 p.m Mary Jane Meaker and Lesbian pulp novel [Co-sponsored CLAGS, Feminist Press, Center for the Humanities, Women's Studies].

November 17                          

Workshop on Academic Publishing

                                                        
November 24                          

Thanksgiving Break

December 1                           

Lyn DiIorio Sandín, City College of New York "The Latino Scapegoat: The Purpose of Violence in Two 'Latino' The New Yorker stories"  

December 8                         

2:30 p.m. Meeting of the Faculty
3:30 p.m. Open Meeting of the Executive Committee
4:30 p.m. Pre-Revels Event

6 p.m. Winter Revels!

 

 

  

PhD Program in English
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7407 New York, NY 10016-4309
telephone: 212-817-8315 fax: 212-817-1518
email: english@gc.cuny.edu