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
Past Events
Spring 2009
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