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Calendar of Events 2007-08
 
Fall 2007 Spring 2008    

 

Date/Time Event Location

Tuesday
January 22, 2008

Spring semester begins

Wednesday

January 23, 2008

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Personnel Committee Meeting

Murray Hall
Chair's Office

Room 105

Wednesday
January 23, 2008
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Graduate Admissions Committee Meeting

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room

Room 305

Monday
January 28, 2008

1:00 PM

Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium

Jennifer Garrison (Rutgers University)

Dissertation Chapter Workshop

"Liturgy and Loss: Pearl and the Ritual Reform of the Aristocratic Subject"

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room

Room 305

Monday
January 28, 2008
5:00 - 8:00 pm
Graduate Program Annual Potluck Dinner Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Wednesday

January 30, 2008

Executive Committee Meeting

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room

Room 305

Monday

February 4, 2008

4:30 pm

New Media Job Candidate Lecture

Lisa Gitelman ( The Catholic University of America)

"Xerographers of the Mind: The Lost Idea of the Photocopy"

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
Room 303

Tuesday

February 5, 2008

6:00 pm

Writers House Bookmark Series:

Eighteenth Century Literary Studies

Featured Authors and Publications: Matthew S. Buckley (Rutgers English), "Tragedy Walks the Streets": The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama; Lynn Festa (Rutgers English), Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France; and Michael McKeon (Rutgers English),The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge

Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room, Room 002

Tuesday

February 5, 2008

4:30 pm

Postcolonial Studies Discussion Group:

Workshop of Dissertation Chapter by Anantha Sudhakar, "City, Mirror, Self: The Urban Autobiographies of Meena Alexander and Vivek Balk"

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
February 6, 2008
10:00 - 11:30 am
Reappointment Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Wednesday
February 6, 2008
7:30 PM
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:
James Surowiecki
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli
Art Museum

Lower Dodge Gallery

Thursday,

February 7, 2008

4:30 pm

New Media Job Candidate Lecture

Jessica Pressman (UCLA)

"Bob Brown's Readies, Speed Reading, and Electronic Literature"

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
Room 303

Monday
February 11, 2008
4:30 PM

Sexuality Speakers Series:
Martha Vicinus (University of Michigan)
"The History of Lesbian History"
Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
Room 303
Wednesday
February 13, 2008
4:30 pm
Writers from Rutgers Reading Series:
Wesley Brown and Cheryl Clarke
Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room, Room 002

Thursday

February 14, 2008

4:30 pm

Job Candidate Lecture

Edward White (University of Florida)

"The Semiotics of the Founders"

Alexander Library

169 College Avenue

Teleconference Lecture Hall

4th Floor

Monday

February 18, 2008

2:00-4:00pm

GESA Workshop: Submitting an Article for Publication

with Henry Turner

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Tuesday

February 19, 2008

6:00 PM

Writers House Bookmark Series:

Remembering Toni Cade Bambara

Featured Authors and Publication: Cheryl A. Wall (Rutgers English) and Linda Janet Holmes, ed. Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara

Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room, Room 002

Wednesday

February 20, 2008

10:00-11:30 am

Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Wednesday
February 20, 2008
7:30 pm
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:
Colson Whitehead

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Thursday
February 21, 2008
5:00 pm

Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book:

Wayne Wiegand (Florida State University) and Sarah Wadsworth (Marquette University)

"'Right Here I See My Own Books': A Cultural History of the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 "

Alexander Library

169 College Avenue

Teleconference Lecture Hall

4th Floor

Thursday,

February 28, 2008

4:30 PM

Modernism and Globalization Seminar Series:

Ross Posnock (Columbia University)

"'Don't think, but look!': Sebald, Wittgenstein, and the Genealogy of Cosmopolitan Poverty"

Alexander Library

169 College Avenue

Teleconference Lecture Hall

4th Floor

Thursday,

February 28, 2008

4:30 PM

Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium:

William Kuskin (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"Recursive Origins: Print History and Shakespeare's Henry VI , Part 2"

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305

Monday

March 3, 2008

4:30 pm

Job Candidate Lecture

Jonathan Elmer (Indiana University)

"Babo's Razor"

Alexander Library

169 College Avenue

Teleconference Lecture Hall

4th Floor

Tuesday

March 4, 2008

6:00 PM

Writers House Bookmark Series:

Designing Minds, Designing Spaces

Featured Authors and Publications: Alison Isenberg (Rutgers History), Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It; and Carla Yanni (Rutgers Art History), Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States

Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room, Room 002
Wednesday
March 5, 2008
7:30 pm
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:
Alison Bechdel

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Thursday

March 6, 2008

6:00 pm

Nineteenth Century Studies Group Speaker Series:

Meredith L. McGill

"American Pickwick; or, The Artist in Boots" 

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex

Room 302

Thursday

March 6, 2008

4:30 pm

Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium:

Michael Neill (University of Auckland)

"'Noises, Sounds, and Sweet Airs:' The Burden of Shakespeare's Tempest"

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Friday
March 7, 2008
8:30 am - 7:00 pm
Making History: Rethinking Master Narratives Conference
Plenary Speakers: Nancy Armstrong (Brown University), Dror Wahrman (Indiana University), Catherine Hall (University College London), and Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania)

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Monday

March 10, 2008

4:30 pm

Job Candidate Lecture

Branca Arsic (SUNY-Albany)

"Impersonal Affinities: Emerson on Friendship"

Alexander Library

169 College Avenue

Teleconference Lecture Hall

4th Floor

Wednesday
March 12, 2008
10:00 - 11:30 am
Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
March 12, 2008
11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Graduate Executive Committee Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
   

Jameson Theater

Wednesday,

March 12, 2008

8:00 PM

Wendy Salkind (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Gertrude Stein's IDA: A Performed Narration

Jameson Theater

30 Jones Avenue

Douglass Campus

Thursday

March 13, 2008

4:30 pm

Lecture and Reading

Mark Doty (University of Houston)

"Whitman in Tears"

 

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
Room 303
Saturday
March 15, 2008 -
Sunday
March 23, 2008
Spring Recess
Wednesday
March 26, 2008
10:00 - 11:30 am
Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Wednesday
March 26, 2008
4:30 pm
Writers from Rutgers Reading Series:
Andrew Krivak

Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room
Murray 002

Thursday,
March 27, 2008
5:00 pm

Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book:

Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania)

"Literary Drama: William Shakespeare vs. The Anonymous Thomas Tomkis

Alexander Library
Pane Room
1st Floor

169 College Avenue

Monday,

March 31, 2008

8:45 am -

8:00 pm

Graduate Program Annual Open House

for Newly Admitted Students

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Tuesday,

April 1, 2008

3:00 PM

Facts and Counterfacts in the Nineteenth Century

Mary A. Favret (Indiana University)

"Fields of Battle, Fields of History"

Andrew H. Miller (Indiana University)

"The Pathos of Being One: A Letter to My Sister"

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
Room 305

Wednesday,

April 2, 2008

11:30 am

Graduate Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
April 2, 2008
7:30 pm
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:
Li-Young Lee

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Wednesday
April 9, 2008
4:30 pm

Postcolonial Studies Group:

Mustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
“Race for Empire: Blacks and Arabs in Contemporary American Popular Culture”

Murray Hall

Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Thursday
April 10, 2008
5:00 pm

Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book

Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Unpacking Orhan Pamuk's Library: Shelf-Lives of Books"

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Wednesday,

April 16, 2008

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Thursday,

April 17, 2008

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Graduate Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Thursday,

April 17, 2008

5:00 pm -

7:00 pm

Graduate Program Symposium

Presentations: Writers House

Dinner: TBD

Friday
April 18, 2008
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Undergraduate Program Honors Symposium TBD

Sunday,

April 20, 2008
4:30 pm

Gabriel Fried: A Poetry Reading Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Tuesday

April 22, 2008

6:00 PM

Writers House Bookmark Series:

Religion and Secularism--Past and Present, Here and Abroad

Featured Authors and Publications: Barbara Cooper (Rutgers History), Evangelical Christians in the Muslim World; Colin Jager (Rutgers English), The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era; and John A. McClure, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison

Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room, Room 002
Wednesday
April 23, 2008
10:00 - 11:30 am
Executive Committee Meeting (Final Meeting) Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Thursday
April 24, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Staff Appreciation Day Luncheon Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Monday
May 5, 2008
Regular classes end
Wednesday
May 7, 2008
10:00 - 11:30 am
Faculty Meeting (Final Meeting) Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Saturday
May 17, 2008
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Annual Faculty Book Fair Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Wednesday
May 21, 2008
University Commencement  


 
 
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