Friday Forum Series, Spring 2003

February 14

Professor Michael Denning, "A Novelist's International". Co-sponsored with the American Studies Certificate Program

POSTPONED due to snow! February 18th, Tuesday, 6:30-8:30

THE GROUP THAT WAS NOT ONE: A Panel Discussion featuring Michael Anderson on Lorraine Hansberry; Shelly Eversley on Gwendolyn Brooks; Jan Heller Levi on Muriel Rukeyser; Honor Moore on Elizabeth Bishop moderated by Professor Rachel Brownstein. Co-sponsored with The Center for the Humanities (Martin E. Segal Theatre)

February 21st

PHOTOGRAPHY AS (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY: A Panel Discussion featuring: Timothy Dow Adams, Mary Ann Caws, Charles Martin, and Brenda Wineapple. Co-sponsored by the Henri Peyre French Institute

February 28th

Study Naming Occasion: Professor Adrienne Munich, "The African Queen"

March 3rd, Monday, 6:30-8:30

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE: BEING FEMALE IN THE 50s, A Panel Discussion featuring Professors Blanche Weisen Cook, Nancy K. Miller, Esther Newton, Eve Sedgwick, Elaine Showalter. Moderated by Professor Patricia Clough Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities

March 7th

Professor David Gordon, "Putting God in Perspective"

March 14th

2-4: WOMEN'S ART IN THE 70s: A Panel Discussion featuring artists, critics, and agents, coordinated and moderated by Professor Nancy K. Miller. Co-sponsored with the Women's Studies Certificate Program

          4-6: Recruitment Day

March 21st

TEXT, TRANSLATION, & TEACHING: A Panel Discussion featuring Andre Aciman, Edith Grossman, and Wayne Koestenbaum

March 28th

Professor Charlotte Pierce-Baker, "From Surviving the Silence to Where We Are". Co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Group

April 1st, Monday

"Fresh Foremothers: Fiction Writers Then and Now", A Panel Discussion featuring Susan Choi (author of The Foreign Student) on Hisaye Yamamoto, Mary Gaitskill (author of Because They Wanted To) on Carson McCullers, Mary Gordon (author of The Rest of Life: Three Novellas) on Jean Stafford, Vivian Gornick (author of Fierce Attachments) on Isabel Bolton, Jhumpa Lahiri (author of Interpreter of Maladies) on Mavis Gallant. Moderated by Rachel Brownstein. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities

April 4th

Fall 2003 ESA Conference: Writing at War: literatures in conflict/conflicts in literature

          4-6: Edmund White: A Reading. Co-sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature

April 11th

RENAISSANCE STUDIES SPRING COLLOQUIUM "Eros at the Court of the Medici: The Painting and Poetry of Bronzino and his Circle" A Colloquium Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Angolo Bronzino (1503-1572), featuring Deborah Parker (University of Virginia), Bette Talvacchia (University of Connecticut), Respondent: James Saslow (The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY). Moderator and organizer: Janet Cox-Rearick (The Graduate Center, CUNY).

April 18th

Spring Break

April 25th

Annual Shakespeare Conference

May 2nd

Annual Victorian Conference: "Victorian Colonialisms"

May 9th

TBA

May 16th

Student Poetry Reading

          Spring Revels