Friday Forum Plus Schedule, Spring 2000

• 2-4 pm: Prof. Jon Christian Suggs (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) - Faculty Membership Lecture: "Desperate Americanisms: Law, Psychosis and the Modern in African American Narrative"
• 4-6 pm: Dist. Prof. Fred Kaplan (Graduate Center, Brooklyn College) - "The Pleasures & Perils of Writing a Biography of Gore Vidal"

Lincoln's Birthday- Building Closed

• 2-4 pm: Prof. Geoffrey Hartman (Professor Emeritus, Yale University; Scholar-in-Residence, George Washington University) - "Wordsworth, Cultural Memory and the Birth-Pangs of the Modern" (sponsored by The Center for the Humanities)
• 4-6 pm: Student Poetry Reading

6-8 pm: Prof. Geoffrey Hartman - "History, Memory, and Holocaust Video Testimony" - Recital Hall (A lecture sponsored by The Center for the Humanities)

• 2-4 pm: Prof. Geoffrey Hartman - "Shelley's Counter-Culture" (Scholar-in Residence Seminar sponsored by The Center for the Humanities)
• 4-6 pm: Prof. Geoffrey Hartman Responds: A CUNY Faculty Development Seminar sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and the Ph.D. Program in English

• 2-4 pm: Prof. Anya Taylor (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) - Faculty Membership Lecture: "On Coleridge's 'Christabel'"
• 4-6 pm: Billy Collins (Lehman College): A Poetry Reading

4-6pm: Literary agent Ira Silverberg, in conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum. Silverberg will speak informally about his work with William Burroughs and other writers; about his work as publisher of High Risk Books and editor of Grove Press; about his work as literary agent; about the role of the literary agent in the publication process, and the place of agents in academic publication; and more generally, about the state of serious literary and critical publishing today.

9am-6pm: ESA Conference: Envisioning Revision

• 2:30-3:30: Recruitment Day
• 4-6pm: An occasion honoring Prof. Alisa Solomon (Graduate Center, Baruch College), new Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, featuring a panel discussion led by Prof. Barbara Bowen

• 2-4 pm: "Getting Real: Open Forum on the Profession"
• 4-6 pm: Prof. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Graduate Center) - "Come As You Are," a talk about death/textiles/buddhism

9-6: ARC OF CELEBRATION and CUNY ENGLISH FORUM 2000, Keynote Dialogue: Professor Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University) and Distinguished Professor John Brenkman (Graduate Center, Baruch College)

• 3-6 pm: Northeast Victorian Association Conference
• Prof. Jerome McGann (University of Virginia): A CUNY Faculty Development Lecture, honoring Prof. W. Speed Hill. Respondents TBA.

Spring Recess

Spring Recess

4-6 pm: Annual Shakespeare Program: Including a CUNY Faculty Development Program featuring Andrei Serban (The Public Theater) and Prof. Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley). Respondents TBA

9:30-5:30: Law, Literature and Culture: An All-Day Program, including a CUNY Faculty Development Lecture TBA