@ Friday, February 5
"Scattered Bodies of Truth" Interreligious/Sectarian Relations, 1450-1700: Encounters East and West
A colloquium with speakers Richard Trexler (SUNY-Binghamton) and Daniel Goffman (Ball State University).
Third Floor Studio, GSUC
4:00-6:00 p.m.

Co-sponsored by Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Ph.D. Programs in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies and History.

@ Wednesday-Friday February 17-19
Millennium Mallarme
An homage to Mallarme, with speakers from France, England, Australia and the United States. Includes live performances, art exhibits, and lectures. Evening program on February 17 and all-day program on February 18 will take place in the Third Floor Studio, GSUC. All-day program on February 19 will take place at Evelyn Kranes Kossak Lecture Hall, 1527 Hunter North, Hunter College. Call (212) 642-2311 for details.
Sponsored by The Henri Peyre French Institute of the GSUC, with support from The Florence Gould Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in French, English, Art History, and Comparative Literature, and the CUNY Academy of Humanities and Sciences

@ Friday, February 26
Revising America's Literary History: The Postwar Years
A discussion with four contributors to the next volume of The Cambridge History of American Literature. Speakers: John Burt (Brandeis University); Morris Dickstein (GSUC, Queens College); Cyrus Patell (New York University); Wendy Steiner (University of Pennsylvania)
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Third Floor Studio, GSUC
Cosponsored by The Center for Humanities, GSUC

@ Monday, March 1
White Amnesia-Black Memory? American Women's Writing and History
Speaker: Sabine Brock (University of Bremen). Introduced by Jane Marcus
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Room 202, GSUC
Cosponsored by the Women's Studies Certificate Program

@ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, March 1-3 (A "Plus" Program)
The Holocaust in Cinema: Memory, Politics and Representation
An international conference of film scholars, Holocaust historians, writers, and directors. Call (212) 642-2686 for a detailed schedule of events.
Proshansky Auditorium
Cosponsored by The Center for Humanities (GSUC) and the Film Studies Certificate Program. Generously supported by grants from the Righteous Persons Foundation and the Lucius Littauer Foundation.

@ Friday, March 5
Faculty Membership Lecture: "James Thomson's 'Summer': The Problem of Landscape"
Speaker: Blanford Parker (College of Staten Island)
Room 4000, Grace Building
2:00-4:00 p.m.

@ Friday, March 12
Recruitment Day
Students accepted for admission or interested in applying to the Ph.D. Program in English are invited to hear current students, faculty and officers speak on different aspects of the doctoral program. Special lecture by Wayne Koestenbaum (GSUC)
Room 1800 (Dining Commons), GSUC
4:00-6:00 p.m.

@ Friday, March 19
English Students' Conference: "Witnessing Pain and Terror"
Keynote address by Marilyn Hacker
Third Floor Studio, GSUC, and other rooms TBA
9:00- 9:00 p.m.

@ Tuesday, March 23 (A "Plus" Program)
A Reading and Conversation with Playwright Tony Kushner
Baruch College Conference Center, 151 E. 25 Street
6:00 p.m. Reception to follow.
Cosponsored by The Center for Humanities and the Baruch College English Department

@ Friday, March 26
Faculty Membership Lecture: "The Appearance of the Irish-American in the American Renaissance"
Speaker: Marc Dolan (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Room 4000, Grace Building
2:00-4:00 p.m.

@ Friday, March 26
Scarcity and Access of Language in Henry James and Louis de Forets
Speaker: Alexander Gelli (University of California, Irvine)
Room 4018, Grace Building
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature

@ Thursday, April 7-Sunday, April 11
Celtic Studies of North America Annual Meeting
Principal speakers: Liam Breatnach (Trinity College Dublin); Thomas Owen Clancy (Univesity of Glasgow); Oliver J. Padel (University of Cambridge).
Call (212) 642-2246 for a schedule of events
Proshansky Auditorium (Thursday and Friday)
Glucksman Ireland House, 1 Washington Mews (Saturday and Sunday)
9:00-6:00 p.m.

@ Wednesday-Saturday, April 14-17
Tenth International Interdisciplinary Conference of The Society for Textual Scholarship
Sessions will be held at the GSUC and at the Lincoln Center and Rose Hill Campuses of Fordham University. Registration and membership in The Society for Textual Scholarship is required for attendees.
GSUC (Wednesday and Thursday)
Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham University (Friday)
Rose Hill Campus, Fordham University (Saturday)
9:00-6:15 p.m. each day
Cosponsored by The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University and The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY

@ Friday, April 16
Eighteenth Century Revolutions
An all-day inter-disciplinary conference. Keynote address by Robert Darnton (Shelby Cullom Davis Class of 1930 Professor of History, Princeton University)
Proshansky Auditorium, GSUC
9:00-6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the CUNY 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

@ Friday, April 23
Holland Park Artists, Their Houses and Their Patrons
Speaker: Caroline Dakers, (St. Martin's College of Art and Design)
Room TBA
2:00-4:00 p.m.

@ Friday, April 23 Annual Shakespeare Conference: "'Of Government the Properties to Unfold': Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' in Context
Speakers: Peter Lake (History, Princeton) and Debora Shuger (English, UCLA)
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Third Floor Studio
Cosponsored by The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities at The City College, the Ph.D Program in Theatre and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program

@ Friday, April 30
Open Meeting of the Curriculum Committee
Third Floor Studio, GSUC
2:00-4:00 p.m.

Lecture in Honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Speaker: Ken Wissoker (Editor-in-Chief, Duke University Press)
Third Floor Studio, GSUC
4:00-6:00 p.m.

@ Friday, May 7 ( A "Plus" Program)
Ralph Ellison and American Culture
Coinciding with the posthumous publication of Ralph Ellison's last manuscript, The Center for the Humanities will sponsor a day-long conference illuminating Ellison's work and exploring his increasingly influential viewpoint on American culture. Participants will include friends, writers, literary scholars, and historians, such as John Callahan, James L. de Jongh, Robert O'Meally, Albert Murray, Ross Posnock, Arnold Rampersad, Werner Sollors, and Michele Wallace
Proshansky Auditorium
9:30 a.m.
Made possible by the generous support of Edith and Henry Everett. Cosponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC).

@ Friday, May 7
Annual Victorian Conference: "Victorian Fashion, Taste, and Consumption"
Speakers will include: Patrick Brantlinger, Christina Crosby, Laurie Langbauer, Joseph Litvak, Elsie Michie, Andrew Miller, Adrienne Munich, and Valerie Steele. Conference Coordinators: Anne Humpherys and Gerhard Joseph (Lehman College and The Graduate School, CUNY)
Third Floor Studio, GSUC
9:00-6:00 p.m.

@ Friday and Saturday, May 14-15 (A "Plus" Program)
Eugene O'Neill Conference
A distinguished group of scholars, critics, and writers will converge on the City University for two days of discussion and performance to illuminate O'Neill's work, figure, and historical moment in American culture. Call (212) 642-2686 for a complete schedule of events.
Baruch College, 151 E. 25 Street
Cosponsored by The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate School, and Baruch College

@ Friday, May 14
General Faculty Meeting
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Room TBA

Spring Revels
Third Floor Studio, GSUC
4:00-8:00 p.m.

Following every regular Friday Forum program (not the "Plus" programs), a reception will be held in the English Program offices on the 40th Floor of the Grace Building, 43 W. 42nd Street. All programs are free and open to the public and no advance registration is required (except for the Conference of The Society for Textual Scholarship).