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Spring 2009 Events


February 2009 | March 2009 | April 2009

February 2009

Thursday, February 5, 6:00 pm
19 University Place, Room 222
The Medieval Forum and Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Presents:
 “The Weight of the Past”
Jeffrey Cohen (George Washington University)
Wednesday, February 11, 9:00pm to 10:00 pm
19 University Place, Room 222 Evening Papers and Graduate English Organization presents:
Small Press Conference featuring
Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Sarah Nicholls (The Center for Book Arts)
Thursday, February 12
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
The Early Modern Forum presents:
“The Portingale: exploring the Portuguese community in late Elizabethan
London”
Alan Stewart (Columbia University)

19 University Place, Room 222
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Thursday, February 19, 6:00 pm
Columbia University (TBA) The Medieval Forum and Columbia University presents:
 "Wondering through the World: Ibn Battuta, the Muslim World, and the 'aja'ib narrative"
Christine Chism (Rutgers University)
Wednesday, February 25, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
The Colloquium for American Literature and Culture presents:
Lenora Warren (New York University)
Kate Wilson (CUNY)
Thursday, February 26
19 University Place, Room 222
The Early Modern Forum presents:
“Renaissance Typos and Philosophies of Chance: A Colloquium”
Jacques Lezra and Juliet Fleming (New York University)

March 2009

Thursday, March 5

8:30 to 10:00 pm
First Spring 2009 Forum
Kathryn Bullerdick and Kara Donnelly

9:00 to 10:00 pm
19 University Place, Room 222
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Monday, March 9
285 Mercer Street, 10th Floor
The Medieval Forum and CELCE presents:
"Cures and Closures: Surgery, Intersex, and the Demands of Difference"
Leah DeVun (Texas A&M University)
Thursday, March 12
100 Washington Square East
The Early Modern Forum presents:
Room 503   "Kermes Trismegistus: Dyes and Deceit in Chapman's Hellespont"
Miriam Jacobson (Wake Forest University)
Tuesday, March 24
19 University Place, Room 222
The Early Modern Forum and the Medieval and Renaissance Center presents:
"Richard Hakluyt, Translator, and the Early Modern Global Imaginary"
Henry Turner (Rutgers University)
Thursday, March 26 – 27
Fales Library, Berol Seminar Room
The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture presents:
Graduate Student Conference 
"The Formative Years: Children’s Literature in the University"
Friday, March 27
Fales Library Reading Room
The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture presents:
6:00 pm "Castaways: The Swiss Family Robinson, Child Book-Makers, and the
Possibilities of Literary Flotsam"
Karen Sánchez-Eppler

April 2009

Wednesday, April 1
6:00 to 8:00 pm
The Colloquium for American Literature and Culture presents:
Laura Fisher (New York University)
Thursday, April 2
19 University Place, Room 222
The Medieval Forum and MARC presents:
"Mythic Capital: Medievalism, Heritage Culture and the Order of the Garter, 1348-2008"
Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne)
 
19 University Place, Room 222
The MA Forum presents:
9:00 to 10:00 pm   Evening Papers
Friday, April 3
19 University Place, Great Theater
The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture presents
:
All day "It Came from Lollywood"
Zinda Laash
International Gorillay
Hell’s Ground
Wednesday, April 15
6:00 to 8:00 pm
The Colloquium for American Literature and Culture presents:
Cyrus Patell (New York University)
Jennifer D. Williams (New York University)
Thursday, April 23
100 Washington Square East
The Medieval Forum presents:
Room 503   "The Politics of the Subjunctive"
Paul Strohm (Columbia University)

19 University Place, Room 222
The MA Forum presents:
9:00 to 10:00 pm   Colloquium
April 30
The Early Modern Forum and CELCE presents:
Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)
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