@ Friday, October 15
Joel Faflak, University of Western Ontario, "Case History & Case Study in De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater."
@ Friday, October 22
Allan Atlas, Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Music, CUNY Graduate School, "Collins, Count Fosco, and the Concertina." 4 p.m. in the English Program lounge.
@ Friday, October 29
Second Alumni/ae Lecture: Sean McCann, Wesleyan University, "Achieving the Disembodied."
@ Friday, November 5
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, title to be announced.
@ Tuesday, November 9 (a "plus" event)
The Irving Howe Lecture, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, 6-8.
@ Friday, November 12
STEIN IN A NEW SPACE: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, 2-6, Co-sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in French, the Henri Peyre Institute, and the CUNY Academy for the Sciences and Arts.
@ Friday, November 19
John Hollander, Yale University, "Allegory and Espionage," a lecture in honor of Angus Fletcher, co-sponsored with the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program.
@ Friday, December 3
Second CUNY Faculty Development Seminar: English Studies in the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches, IN OUR TIME: 20TH CENTURY REFLECTIONS, speakers to be announced.
@ Friday, December 10
Faculty Work-in-Progress: Joseph Wittreich on Samson Agonistes.
@ Friday, December 17 Winter Revels.
Following every regular Friday Forum program (not the "Plus" programs), a reception will be held in the English Program offices on the fourth floor of the Graduate Center building at 365 Fifth Avenue. All programs are free and open to the public and no advance registration is required. For further information, call the Ph.D. Program in English at (212) 817-8315.
