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Date/Time Event Location

Thursday
August 30, 2007
10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Graduate Program Orientation for New Students Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Tuesday
September 4, 2007
Fall Semester Begins  
Wednesday
September 5, 2007
10:00 - 11:30 am
Personnel Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Chairs Office, Room 105
Wednesday
September 5, 2007
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Graduate Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
September 12, 2007
10:00 - 11:30 am
Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Wednesday

September12, 2007
11:30 am

Promotion Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Wednesday

September 12, 2007

4:30 pm

Annual Welcome Reception Jane Voorhees Zimmerli
Art Museum

Lower Dodge Gallery

Wednesday

September 19, 2007

10:00 - 11:30 am

Executive Committee Meeting

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room, Room 305
Wednesday
September 19, 2007
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Annual Opening Lecture: Kate Flint "Modernity and the Native American in Victorian Britain"

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Wednesday
September
26, 2007
1:00 - 4:00 pm

Center for Cultural Analysis Working Group:

Frances Ferguson (Johns Hopkins University)

Center for Cultural Analysis

8 Bishop Place

Wednesday
September
26, 2007
7:30 pm
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:
Jayne Anne Phillips

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Wednesday
October 3, 2007
3:00 pm
Writers House Dedication Ceremony Murray Hall / Lot 16
Wednesday
October 3, 2007
4:30 pm
Writers from Rutgers Reading Series:
Evie Shockley and Graduate Student Poets Candice Amich, Anne Keefe, and Michael Leong
Murray Hall / Lot 16
Wednesday
October 3, 2007
4:30 pm

Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium:

Colleen Rosenfeld, "Spenser's Staffe"

Murray Hall

Plangere Conference Room

Room 305

Thursday
October 4, 2007
4:30 pm

Rutgers British Studies Project Inaugural Lecture:

John Brewer (California Institute of Technology),

"Taste and Modernity: Sensibility and Spectacle in Late Georgian Britain"

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Monday
October 8, 2007
4:30 pm
Job Candidate Lecture TBD
Wednesday
October 10, 2007

10:00 - 11:30 am

Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
October 10, 2007
11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Graduate Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Friday
October 12, 2007
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

British Studies Speakers

Historicism and Its Discontents (One-Day Conference)

Jean Howard (Columbia University), Aranye Fradenburg (University of California, Santa Barbara), Madhavi Menon (American University), and Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt University)

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Monday
October 15, 2007
4:30 pm
Job Candidate Lecture TBD
Wednesday
October 17, 2007

10:00 - 11:30 am

Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Wednesday

October 17, 2007

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Twentieth Century Studies Group Brown Bag Lunch Speakers Series:

Rebecca Walkowitz

Murray Hall

Plangere Conference Room

Room 305

Wednesday
October 17, 2007
7:30 pm

Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:

Mark Doty

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Monday
October 22, 2007
3:30 pm

Sexuality Speakers Series

A Symposium on "After Sex? New Work Since Queer Theory": A special issue of SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly

Janet Halley (Harvard Law School), Andrew Parker (Amherst College), Michael Cobb (University of Toronto), Lee Edelman (Tufts University), Joseph Litvak (Tufts University), Jeff Nunokawa (Princeton University), and Kate Thomas (Bryn Mawr College)

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Wednesday
October 24, 2007
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Center for Cultural Analysis Working Group:

Orrin Wang (University of Maryland)

Center for Cultural Analysis

8 Bishop Place

Thursday
October 25, 2007
4:30 pm

Nineteenth Century Studies Group Speakers Series:

Amanda Claybaugh (Columbia University), "The American Author and the U.S. Consul"

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302

Tuesday
October 30, 2007
4:30 pm

Writers from Rutgers Reading Series:

Beth Loffreda (University of Wyoming)

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Thursday
November 1, 2007
6:00 pm

GESA Workshop:

Turning Your Work into a Conference Presentation

Murray Hall
PlangereConference Room

Room 305

Monday

November 5, 2007

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Twentieth Century Studies Group Coffeehouse:

"Changing the Subject: Posthumanism in Contemporary Studies" Presenters: Cornelius Collins, Paul Benzon, and Rachel Smith Respondent: Marianne DeKoven

Graduate Student Lounge

126 College Avenue

Wednesday
November 7, 2007

10:00 - 11:30 am

Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
November 7, 2007
11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Graduate Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Thursday
November 8, 2007
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Rutgers English Graduate Alumni Lecture:
Marilee Lindemann (University of Maryland)

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
4th Floor

169 College Avenue

Monday
November 12, 2007
7:30 pm

Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:

Joyce Carol Oates

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Wednesday
November 14, 2007

10:00 -11:30 am

Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Wednesday
November 14, 2007
4:00 pm

Writers House Reading (presented with NJ Center for the Book): David Tucker

Murray Hall
Writers House Executive Seminar Room, Room 002
Thursday
November 15, 2007

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Modernism and Globalization Seminar Series:
Modernism's Transnational Futures

Speakers: Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Eric Hayot (Penn State University, University Park); and Pericles Lewis (Yale University)

Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
Room 303
Thursday
November 22 -
Sunday
November 25, 2007
Thanksgiving Recess
Wednesday
November 28, 2007
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Twentieth Century Studies Group Brown Bag Lunch Speakers Series:

Marianne DeKoven

Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
November 28, 2007
7:30 pm

Writers at Rutgers Reading Series:

Sherman Alexie

Rutgers College Student Center

Multipurpose Room

Monday
December 3, 2007
4:30 pm
Job Candidate Lecture TBD
Wednesday
December 5, 2007

10:00 - 11:30 am

Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Wednesday
December 5, 2007
11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Graduate Executive Committee Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Conference Room
Room 305
Thursday
December 6, 2007
4:30 pm
Sexuality Speakers Series TBD
Wednesday
December 12, 2007
Regular classes end
Wednesday
December 12, 2007
10:00 - 11:30 am

Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Wednesday
December 12, 2007
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Graduate Faculty Meeting Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center Annex
Room 302
Friday
December 14, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Staff Holiday Luncheon

Writers House

510 George Street

Saturday
December 22, 2007 -
Monday
January 21, 2008

Winter Recess
Friday
December 28, 2007
5:15 - 6:30 pm
Rutgers English MLA Cash Bar and Reception

NOTE NEW LOCATION!

Hyatt Regency Chicago

Crystal Ballroom C (West Tower)

Wednesday
February 6, 2008
7:30 PM
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series | James Surowiecki Jane Voorhees Zimmerli
Art Museum
New Brunswick
Monday
February 25, 2008
7:00 PM
Meet the Filmmakers | Ross Kauffman Writers House
Murray Hall

 

 
 
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