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Friday Forum Series, Spring 2002

All lectures are followed by a reception in Room 4406.

Friday, February 8

    "After Egypt"
    Speaker Andre Aciman
    (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center CUNY, author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir and False Papers).
    Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and the Ph.D. Program in English.
    President's Conference Room (8201.01) at 4:15 p.m.

Friday, February 15

    "The Material Foundations of Early Modern Texts: From Manuscript Manipulations to Print Technologies"
    With speakers Roger Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) "Don Quixote in the Printing Shop," and Robert Darnton (Princeton University) "Books and Orality in 18th Century Paris: Mlle. Bonafon and the Private Life of Louis XV."
    Cosponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English, The Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Center for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Ph.D. Programs in French, History and Hispanic &Luso-Brazilian Literatures, the Italian Specialization in Comparative Literature, and the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. A CUNY Faculty Development Program.
    Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, February 22

    "How to Do Things with Tears: performances of mourning on the early modern stage"
    Speaker: Tobias Doring (Freie Universität, Berlin)
    Room TBA at 2:00 p.m.

--And--

    "Unsinkable Memories: Colonial Pasts in a Postcolonial French present"
    Speaker Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College, CUNY). Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, March 1

    "The Poetics of Dislocation: Writing Selves." A Celebration in honor of International Women's Month
    Speakers Meena Alexander (Distinguished Professor of English, The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY), Abena Busia (Professor of English, Rutgers University), Susan Stanford Friedman (Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin), Azade Seyhan (Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College). Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Certificate Program, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and the CUNY Faculty Development Program.
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, March 8

    ESA Conference: "Reflections in the Mirror"
    Keynote Speaker George Plimpton
    From 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
    Various Locations around GC, see conference program.

Friday, March 15

    Recruitment Day Applicants to the Ph.D. Program in English are invited to an information session.
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, March 22

    "Despair and the Afro-American Intellectual: From Baraka to Harvard's Dream Team"
    Speaker: Jerry Watts (Professor of American Studies and Political Science, Trinity College and the author of Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual).
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, March 29

    Spring Break

Friday, April 5

    "Getting Real: Writing Inside and Outside the Academy" with Speakers Louis Menand and André Aciman
    Louis Menand is Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center, Contributing Editor of The New York Book Review, and author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America . Andre Aciman is a professor in the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center. He has been widely published in magazines and is the author of After Egypt, a memoir.
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 9

    A Poetry Reading with Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon is Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. His most recent publications include Poems 1968-1998; Hay; The Annals of Chile, and Madoc: A Mystery.
    Cosponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the CUNY Faculty Development Program.
    Martin Segal Theatre at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, April 12

    "On Curiosity"
    Speaker Barbara Benedict (Trinity College; author of Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry and Making the Modern Reader). A CUNY Faculty Development Program.
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, April 19 "Melville, Our Contemporary"

    Speaker Andrew Delbanco (Author of The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil and The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope).
    A CUNY Faculty Development Program.
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, April 26

    Annual Shakespeare Program
    Mary Bly (Fordham University): "Puritan Geographies: Shakespeare's Juliet in St. Paul's Cathedral." Frances Dolan (Miami University): "Shakespeare, Catholicism and the Undead." Mario Di Gangi (Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY): Respondent.
    Cosponsored by Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities of The City College. A CUNY Faculty Development Program.
    Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, May 3

    Annual Victorian Conference: "The Object in Victorian Material Culture" Speakers: James Buzard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Spin Control"; Elaine Freedgood (New York University) "Curtains and Hieroglyphs"; Ivan Kreilkamp (Indiana University) "Petted Things: Victorian Animal Objects"; Carol Mavor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Queen Victoria is Big Penny: The Boyish Labor of J. M. Barrie"; John Plotz (Johns Hopkins University) "The Social Life of Victorian Things: Commodities, Particulars and the Novel"; Alan Rauch (University of Georgia) "Rain-Steam Intellect-and Speed: Intersections of Culture, Technology and Knowledge Production"; Talia Schaffer (Queens College, CUNY) "Imitative Arts: The Victorian Domestic Handicraft and the Realist Novel."
    Cosponsored by The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities of The City College. A CUNY Faculty Development Program
    Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday, May 10

    Faculty Talk: "Adventures in Literary History: The Mid-Century Generation"
    Speaker Morris Dickstein (Distinguished Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY). Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.

Friday, May 17

    Spring Revels
    Room 4406 at 4:00 p.m.
    Dancing in Martin Segal Theatre at 6 p.m.

All programs are free and open to the public.

The Graduate Center of CUNY is located at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), New York , NY. Please telephone The Ph.D. Program in English for more information: 212.817.8315.

 

 
  

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