Calendar of EventsFall 2009
Thursday, October 1
19 University Place, Room 224
6:30pm
The Medieval Forum and CELCE presents:
“In the Merchant's Bedchamber”
Glenn Burger (CUNY)
Tuesday, October 6
20 Cooper Square, Room 471
7:00pm
Artists on Film: The Case of the Grinning Cat
(dir. Chris Marker, 2004), 59 min.
Discussion between Prerana Reddy & Naeem Mohaiemen
Wednesday, October 7
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
“The Structuring Enemy and Archival War: On the Politics of Dead Memory”
Allen Feldman (NYU)
Thursday, October 8
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Early Modern Forum and CELCE presents:
“The Untimely Mammet of Verona”
Gil Harris (GWU)
Saturday, October 10
721 Broadway, Suite 612
10:00am – 6:45pm
Kiss Me Again: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Russell
http://arthursymposium.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, October 20
20 Cooper Square, Room 471
7:00pm
Artists on Film: Vivek Bald on Archaeologies of Asian Punk
Wednesday, October 21
19 University Place, Room 222
6:00pm
The Colloquium on American Literature and Culture presents:
“The Urban (as) Flaneur: Narrator and City in Edgardo Vega Yunque’s The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle”
Hilarie Ashton (NYU)
“White People Were Returning to Dean Street: Contact Zones and Gentrification in Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude”
Katie Daily (Boston College)
19 University Place, Room 222
8:30pm
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Wednesday, October 28
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
“‘When we got here the Indians had already left’: Postcoloniality and the indigenous”
Mary Louise Pratt (NYU)
Monday, November 2
19 University Place, Room 224
6:30pm
The Early Modern Forum and CELCE present:
“Renaissance Typos and Philosophies of Chance: A Colloquium”
Jacques Lezra and Juliet Fleming (NYU)
Tuesday, November 3
19 University Place, Room 222
6:15pm
The Modern Colloquium and The Long Eighteenth Century Colloquium present:
Mediation and the Future of Literary Study: Essays and presentations by
Professor John Guillory, “Genesis of the Media Concept”
Professor Clifford Siskin, “Remediating Ralph”
with a response by Professor Lisa Gitelman
Thursday, November 5
20 Cooper Square, Room 485
12:30pm
The Asian American Visual Cultures Seminar Series presents:
"Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary"
Margo Machida (University of Connecticut)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation presents:
John Wray in conversation with Darin Strauss
Friday, November 6
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
The Friday Happy Hours Series presents:
Writers from the Agriculture Reader:
Heather Christle, Joshua Cohen, Matthew Rohrer, and Diane Williams
Monday, November 9
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
1:00pm
Poetry Reading:
Tomaz Salamun, introduced by Matthew Rohrer
Tuesday, November 10
20 Cooper Square, Room 471
6:30pm
The Asian American Visual Cultures Series presents:
Artists on Film: Asad Raza on Harun Farocki
Workers Leaving the Factory/Respite (1995/2007)
Wednesday, November 11
19 University Place, Room 222
6:00pm
The Colloquium on American Literature and Culture presents:
“Williams, Whitman and the Prosody of American Empire”
Greg Londe (Princeton University)
20 Cooper Square, Room 471
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture presents:
Ghostscapes Series
“An Injury to One” (dir Travis Wilkerson, 2002)
Presented by Bilge Ebiri
Thursday, November 12
19 University Place, Room 224
6:30pm
The Medieval Forum and CELCE present:
“The Sorrow of Being”
Nicola Masciandaro (CUNY)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Two Poets from Four Way Books:
Carolyn Forché and Tom Healy
Friday, November 13
19 University Place, Great Room
3:00pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
TBD
KGB Bar
7:00pm
The Emerging Writers Reading Series presents:
Gary Shteyngart
Monday, November 16
131 East 10th Street
8:00pm
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church presents:
“The Source of the Hudson: A Dutch Landscape of American Prospects”
Lytle Shaw (NYU)
Wednesday, November 18
19 University Place, Room 222
8:30pm
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Thursday, November 19
20 Cooper Square, Room 471
12:30pm
“Chinese Bodies, Their Parts, and Their Markets”
Eric Hayot (Penn State University)
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Medieval Forum and CELCE present:
“Trojan Itineraries: The Fall of Troy and the Francophone Court of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples”
Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University)
Co-sponsored by MARC and the NYU French Department
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Poets in Conversation presents:
Nick Flynn in conversation with Deborah Landau
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
Friday, November 20
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation presents:
Jayne Anne Phillips in conversation with Darin Strauss
Wednesday, December 2
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
“Disincorporations and Aesthetics of Fragments in African Cinema”
Awam Amkpa (NYU)
20 Cooper Square, Room 471
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture presents:
Ghostscapes
"Los Angeles Plays Itself" (dir. Thom Anderson, 2003)
Presented by Richard Porton, editor of "Cineaste"
Thursday, December 3
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Early Modern Forum and CELCE present:
“Romance Ekphrasis: A Language of Sociability”
Elizabeth Bearden (University of Maryland)
Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Department
Vanderbilt Hall, Tishman Auditorium
7:00pm
Poetry Reading:
John Ashbery
Friday, December 4
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
The Friday Happy Hour Series presents:
Poetry Reading:
Denise Duhamel and Jill Bialosky
Monday, December 7
19 University Place, Room 222
6:00pm
The Long Eighteenth Century Colloquium presents:
"Swift and Pope: Satirists in Dialogue"
Professor Dustin Griffin (NYU)
Wednesday, December 9
19 University Place, Room 222
6:00pm
The Colloquium on American Literature and Culture presents:
“Transatlantic Revision and American Literary History: The London Editions of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper”
Joseph Rezek (UCLA; McNeil Center, UPenn)
“This is the Way the World Ends: Herman Melville and the Invention of an African Iago”
Miles P. Grier (NYU)
Thursday, December 10
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Special Performance:
Anne Carson (with Robert Currie and Guest Performers)
Friday, December 11
19 University Place, Room 102
7:00pm
Undergraduate Reading
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Fiction Reading and Conversation:
Michael Thomas
Wednesday, December 16
19 University Place, Room 222
8:30pm
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Thursday, December 17
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The Paris Review Salon presents:
Colum McCann and Timothy Donnelly
Hosted by journal editors Christopher Cox and Dan Chiasson
Friday, December 18
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
7:00pm
The Emerging Writers Reading Series presents:
Matt Hart, Guest Author
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