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

September 7
2 p.m. Job Forum
4 p.m. New Student Welcome / Orientation

September 11 (Tues.)  
6:30 p.m. “A Memorial Tribute to Tillie Olsen” (cosponsored by The Feminist Press, Women’s Studies, and the Center for the Humanities), Elebash Recital Hall

September 28
Program Self-Study meeting #1

October 5
2 p.m. Janet Larson, English, Rutgers University: “American Rights vs. Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Six Years On” (cosponsored by Women’s Studies)
2 p.m. Workshop on dissertation prospectus [and dissertation fellowship applications / doctoral research grants applications]
4 p.m. Carlos Hiraldo, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY: "Identity against the Grain: Caribbean Latino Authors and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States" [faculty membership talk]

October 12 
Samuel Delany and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick discussing Robert Reid-Pharr's new book Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual

October 19
Betsy McCully, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY: "Rhapsody in Green: The Poetry and Science of William Bartram" [faculty membership talk]

October 24 (Wed.)
6 p.m. Susanna Pasonen, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki: “Disturbing, Flesh Texts: Online Pornography and the Strategies of Reading” (cosponsored by Women’s Studies), room C201.

October 26
2 p.m. Program Self-Study meeting #2
4 p.m. Duncan Faherty, Queens College, CUNY: "'Sleeping at the Foot of Vesuvius': Haiti and the Secret History of the Early American Novel" [faculty membership talk]

November 2 
2 p.m. Workshop on the Oral Examination
4 p.m. Courtney Angela Brkic, George Mason University: “Women, War, and the Balkans: The Issue of Missing Person” (cosponsored by Feminist Studies Group)

November 8-9
Conference on Erich Auerbach (cosponsored by Renaissance Studies, Center for the Humanities, and University of California/Irvine)

November 9
Women’s Film Preservation Society: “Lost Films by Women” (cosponsored by Film Studies, Center for the Humanities, and Women’s Studies)

November 16
2 p.m. Workshop on Conference Presentation
4 p.m. Workshop on Academic Publishing

November 30
Sara Lipton, SUNY Stony Brook: "Jewish Eyes, 1120-70 "

December 7
Wayne Koestenbaum, Hotel Theory, and Edmund White, Hotel de Dream

December 13
"Queer Darwinism” (cosponsored by CLAGS)
 
December 14
3 p.m. Faculty Meeting
4 p.m. Open Executive Committee Meeting
5:30 p.m. Revels