Calendar of Events, English Department, UW-Madison

Calendar of Events - 2007/2008

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January

Thursday, January 24 DoVeanna Fulton Nellie Y. McKay Speaker Series 7191 HCW, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Contact: Sebastian Frank www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Tuesday, January 29 Roshan Sharma Envisioning Walt Whitman from a Sufic Perspective Americanist Speakers and Colloquium Series 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Sebastian Frank www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Thursday, January 31 Anthony Kaye "Freedom and Responsibility: Belonging in 19th-century America" 4:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Travis Foster

February

Friday, February 1 Keynote speaker: Professor James A. Secord, of Cambridge University, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project Call for Conference Papers--Deadline Extended for "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM)" The conference will include papers focusing on the dynamic intersection of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) and print culture. Papers might address ways in which STEM—its histories and materials, its theories and practices, its economics, and its practitioners—affects or is affected by print culture.
For more information, see the Center for the History of Print Culture website 5:00 pm, 4234 Helen C. White Hall Contact: Christine Pawley, Director, Center for the History of Print Culture phone: 608 263-2945/608 263-2900

Thursday, February 7 Amy Greenberg, Professor of American History and Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University "Freedom and Responsibility: Belonging in 19th-century America" 4:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Travis Foster

Thursday, February 7 Adam Koehler and Emma Straub Felix: A Series of New Writing The Felix series is dedicated to providing an audience for new writing, and to highlighting the publication of the independent press. 4:30-6:00 pm, Memorial Library, Room 126 http://felixreadingseries.blogspot.com

Thursday, February 21 Deidre Lynch, Professor of English, University of Toronto Canons' Clockwork Middle Modernity Lecture Series 4:00-5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Mary Mullen www.wisc.edu/english/midmod/

Thursday, February 21 Arlene Keizer Nellie Y. McKay Speaker Series 7191 HCW, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Contact: Sebastian Frank www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Thursday, February 28 Meta Jones Nellie Y. McKay Speaker Series 7191 HCW, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Contact: Sebastian Frank www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Thursday, February 28 Madge Klais; Awa Zhu SLIS Building Bridges Colloquium: Bring Together Faculty and Students Teacher Unions in the Working Lives of School Librarians: What Collective Bargaining Agreements Reveal” by Madge Klais.
“Social Construction of the Authorized User in the Digital Age” by Xiaohua Zhu (Awa). SLIS Commons, 4207 Helen C. White Contact: Irene Hansen, Doctoral Student Association Chair, School of Library and Information Science http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~asa/

Friday, February 29 Keynote Speaker: Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History” Knowledge and Empire The conference will center upon the symbolic aspects of colonizing processes in various imperial configurations in the modern period – particularly through the lens of how scientific, legal, and philosophical conceptualizations justify colonial enterprises and facilitate the creation of self-colonizing cultures. Guest speakers include: Georgina Dopico Black (NYU), Joseba Gabilondo (Michigan State), Doris Garraway (Northwestern), Olakunle George (Brown), Lewis Gordon (Temple), and Moyo Okediji (Colorado). UW faculty presenters include: Bala Venkat Mani (German), Luís Madureira (Portuguese), Mercedes Alcalá-Galán (Spanish), Alda Blanco (Spanish), Henry Drewal (Art History), Deborah Jenson (French), and Guillermina De Ferrari (Spanish). Pyle Center 9:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsored by: Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle In conjunction with: The Center for the Humanities (Humanities without Boundaries series), Institute for Research in the Humanities, African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle Contact: Karolyn Steffens or Guillermina De Ferrari www.btcs.wisc.edu/index.htm

Friday, February 29 Professors Keller and Bernstein Stepping into the Profession - Roundtable about the prelims exam 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Lynn Keller or Susan Bernstein

March

Saturday, March 1 Keynote Speaker: Theresa Kelley, "Reading Matter and Paint: Indian Botany and the British" Knowledge and Empire The conference will center upon the symbolic aspects of colonizing processes in various imperial configurations in the modern period – particularly through the lens of how scientific, legal, and philosophical conceptualizations justify colonial enterprises and facilitate the creation of self-colonizing cultures. Guest speakers include: Georgina Dopico Black (NYU), Joseba Gabilondo (Michigan State), Doris Garraway (Northwestern), Olakunle George (Brown), Lewis Gordon (Temple), and Moyo Okediji (Colorado). UW faculty presenters include: Bala Venkat Mani (German), Luís Madureira (Portuguese), Mercedes Alcalá-Galán (Spanish), Alda Blanco (Spanish), Henry Drewal (Art History), Deborah Jenson (French), and Guillermina De Ferrari (Spanish). Pyle Center 9:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsored by: Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle In conjunction with: The Center for the Humanities (Humanities without Boundaries series), Institute for Research in the Humanities, African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle Contact: Karolyn Steffens or Guillermina De Ferrari www.btcs.wisc.edu/index.htm

Monday, March 3 Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University American Imprints: Transatlantic Print Culture and the British Canon Middle Modernity Lecture Series 4:00-5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Mary Mullen www.wisc.edu/english/midmod/

Friday, March 7 Americanist Speakers and Colloquium Series 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 7191 Helen C. White www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Thursday, March 13 Hoa Nguyen & Phan Nhien Hao Felix: A Series of New Writing The Felix series is dedicated to providing an audience for new writing, and to highlighting the publication of the independent press. 4:30-6:00 pm, Memorial Library, Room 126 http://felixreadingseries.blogspot.com

Thursday, March 13 Kate Masur, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University Part of a two-day symposium. This event will be a discussion of "Discrediting Democracy: Liberal Exclusion and the Question of Race in the Post-Emancipation U.S." 4:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Travis Foster

Friday, March 14 Dylan Penningroth, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University Two-day symposium. At this event, we will discuss "The Claims of Slavery and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic Comparison" 11:00 am, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Travis Foster

Friday, March 14 Belonging in the Era of Emancipation Part of a two-day symposium. This event will feature a panel and discussion of work by UW-Madison graduate students. 1:30 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Travis Foster

Thursday, March 27 Professor Timothy Bewes Title TBD Public Lecture by Professor Timothy Bewes (Brown University) sponsored by the CLC and co-sponsored by the Anonymous Fund and the MMC. 4:00 - 6:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Thom Dancer http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~clc

Friday, March 28 Ivy Wilson Nellie Y. McKay Speaker Series TBA Contact: Sebastian Frank www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

April

Thursday, April 3 J. Martin Favor, Associate Professor, Dartmouth Nellie Y. McKay Speaker Series 4:00 - 6:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Thomas Schaub

Friday, April 4 Professor Sara Guyer, Professor Caroline Levine and Dan Gibbons Roundtable on how to write a good dissertation. 2:00 - 3:00 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Mary Mullen

Thursday, April 17 Jules Law, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University 'Figure' or 'Thing'?: The Problem with Fluids in the Victorian Novel Middle Modernity Lecture Series 4:00-5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Hall www.wisc.edu/english/midmod/

Thursday, April 17 David Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago Langston Hughes and the Ethics of Compromise Crucial from a literary perspective was Langston Hughes’s development in his mid-century poems and essays of a language in which he could articulate firm social criticism within a framework of American democratic promise and progress. This compromise between national loyalty and disaffection, to which Hughes held for two decades, clearly foreshadows—and contributes to—the visionary and generally patriotic discourse of the Civil Rights movement. 4:00 - 6:00 pm, 7191 HCW Contact: Kevin Piper modsmods.googlepages.com

Thursday, April 24 Xiomara Santamarina "Reclassifying Group Identity: 19th Century African American Chroniclers of the 'Higher Classes'" 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 6191 HCW Contact: Sebastian Frank www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Friday, April 25 English 100 All-Staff Meeting A staff meeting for all current instructors teaching English 100. Attendance required. 3:00 - 4:30 pm, 6191 HCW Contact: Mary Fiorenza, Morris Young

May

Friday, May 9 John Mee, University of Warwick Lecture by John Mee 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Mary Mullen

Fall Semester 2007 Events

September

Thursday, September 6 Michael Elliott, Associate Professor, Emory University "American Studies on the Little Bighorn" Kicking off the 2007-2008 year, Prof. Elliott will deliver a lecture on the reenactment of the Battle of Little Bighorn that is annually staged by a Crow Indian family, the Real Birds. The focus of the talk will be about how the imagination of the nineteenth century fosters (and frustrates) different forms of belonging at the turn of the twenty-first. 4:30 - 6:00 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Hall Contact Sebastian Frank https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/snfrank/web/ASCS/timeandplace.htm

Thursday, September 20 Anne Anlin Cheng "Josephine Daker: Skins, Tattoos, and the Making of Mordern Surfaces" This public lecture addresses the relationship between Modernism and Primitivism throuh the career of Josephine Baker. What is "bare skin" at the intersection of race and the plastic arts? This talk explores how readings of racial skin shape and are shaped by modernist theorization of surface and its meanings. 4:00 - 6:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Contact Amy Johnson

Thursday, September 20 George Lipsitz Why American Studies Matters: Speaking Truth to Power in the Midnight Hour Lipsitz, professor of Black Studies at UC-Santa Barbara, is a major figure in American Studies. His talk is intended to help foster and publicize an interdisciplinary community in American Studies at UW-Madison. 3:30-5:30 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White Russ Castronovo

Thursday, September 27 Antoine Wilson Former Wisconsin Institute Creative Writing Fiction Fellow Antoine Wilson will read from his debut novel The Interloper. 7:00 - 9:00 pm, 6191 Helen C. White www.creativewriting.wisc.edu http://uwreadings.blogspot.com

Friday, September 28 Professors Keller and Bernstein Stepping into the Profession - Intellectual Resources on Campus What do the Havens Center, the Nelson Institute, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Humanities Center, the Center for Early Modern Studies, the Center for the Study of Print Culture have to offer graduate students? What other interdisciplinary centers are there on campus? What are cluster hires, and how do the clusters work? How do grads get involved in Mellon seminars? How can you learn about various lectures and events on campus? 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., location TBA Contact: Lynn Keller or Susan Bernstein

Sunday, September 30 Nick Doane, Emeritus Professor of English The Viking Discovery of North America Eloquence and Eminence: Emeritus Faculty Lectures 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. For more information about "Eloquence and Eminence: Emeritus Faculty Lectures," call Emily Auerbach, 262-3733 www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa.ee.htm

October

Friday, October 12 Wisconsin Book Festival5:00 - 6:45 PM, Madison Public Library-Main Branch Ron Wallace will be among the 2007 Literary Arts Fellowship recipients reading from their work.Wisconsin Center for the Book's 2007 BookMark Award for Poetry www.creativewriting.wisc.edu | www.wisconsinbookfestival.org

Saturday, October 13 Wisconsin Book Festival Heather Swan Rosenthal, former MFA poet and a current instructor for the UW Creative Writing Program, will receive this award and read from her work.The Power of Poetry: A Craft Talk for "Young" Poets of All Ages 1:00 - 1:30 pm, Memorial Library www.creativewriting.wisc.edu| www.wisconsinbookfestival.org

Saturday, October 13 Wisconsin Book Festival Presented by the UW-Madison Creative Writing Program in conjunction with Arts Night OutFrom the program description: "Poets from UW-Madison's MFA and fellowship programs will talk about why they write poetry, how they turn private ruminations into well-crafted public work, and when and how they go about publishing their work." Amy Quan Barry will moderate. 1:30 - 2:30 pm, Red Gym www.creativewriting.wisc.edu| www.wisconsinbookfestival.org

Saturday, October 13 Wisconsin Book Festival: " Getting the Words Right: A Craft Talk for "Young" Prose Writers of All Ages From the program description: "Asked when he stopped revising a manuscript, Hemingway said, 'When I get the words right.' Most craft talks focus on plot, characterization and the like, but this session covers what is arguably the most difficult part of writing stories: the words." The panel will consist of current MFA fiction writers plus former McCreight Fiction Fellow, Ellen Litman (author of the novel-in-stories The Last Chicken in America). 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Red Gym www.creativewriting.wisc.edu| www.wisconsinbookfestival.org | www.arts.wisc.edu/ano/

Sunday, October 14 Wisconsin Book Festival Michael Cunningham and Joshua Henkin Michael Cunningham, best known for his Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Hours, is Creative Writing's 2007 Peter Straub writer-in-residence. His presentation will be preceded by a shorter reading by the emerging novelist, Joshua Henkin.Look, too, for readings and presentations from other former creative writing students and Institute fellows such as former undergrads Danielle Trussoni and Natanya Wheeler and former fellows Ellen Litman, and Max Garland. www.creativewriting.wisc.edu | www.wisconsinbookfestival.org

Friday, October 19 Professor John Kerrigan Archipelagic MACBETH JOHN KERRIGAN is Professor of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published and lectured internationally on early modern writing and on British and Irish poetry since Wordsworth. Among his books are an influential edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (1986), a study in comparative literature, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996), which won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays (2001) and Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 (2008). 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White Contact: Marshelle Woodward or David Loewenstein

Thursday, October 18 Rei Terada, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at UC-Irvine "Phenomenality & Dissatisfaction." Middle Modernity Group Speaker Series Time & Location TBA www.wisc.edu/english/midmod/

Friday, October 19 Professors Keller and Bernstein Stepping into the Profession - UW Library Resources Learn about how librarians can help you teach your classes. Learn about special collections, how to provide purchase requests, and other resources of our wonderful library system. (We hope to hold this session at Memorial Library.) 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 6191 HCW Contact: Lynn Keller or Susan Bernstein

Wednesday, October 24 Christine Pawley Print Culture Open House Free Pizza! At the Open House, we will have a brief presentation about the Center and its activities, a display of publications (including Ph.D. dissertations), and the graduate students of Wisconsin Print Culture Society will also introduce their organization. The rest of the time will be spent in a Q and A session. We hope that you will find time to come by on October 24, along with any students who you think might be interested in print culture history. To help with ordering pizza, we ask that you RSVP approximate numbers to Irene Hansen, ihansen@wisc.edu 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., SLIS Commons, 4207 Helen C. White Contact: Irene Hansen, Research Coordinator

Thursday, October 25 Jean Valentine Poetry Reading 7:00 - 9:00 pm, 6191 Helen C. White www.creativewriting.wisc.edu

Thursday, October 25 Elisa Tamarkin "Sovereigns, Substitutes, and Emptiness" Can we occasionally recover, from the other side of Independence, what it feels like to be a subject? Why would we want to? Elisa Tamarkin looks at the democratic fascination with both the style of the British monarchy and its rituals of state, while trying to make sense of nineteenth-century America's most anachronistic attachments. 4:00-5:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White David Zimmerman

Friday, October 26 Elisa Tamarkin Brownbag Seminar: Freedom and Deference This discussion focuses on the forms and value of the expressive acts that nineteenth-century Americans recovered from their pre-Revolutionary past. We'll discuss rituals of sociability that encouraged attitudes of deference, loyalty, and even reverence, and then ask why democrats would bother. How can we think about styles of interaction--indeed the fascination with style itself--as a means of historical and political response? At the same time, we'll think about how the histories we abandon often speak to complexities of emotion that survive the histories we inherit. 1:00-2:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White David Zimmerman

Friday, October 26 Professor Paul Strohm, Columbia University Conscience: From Piers Plowman to Henry VIII 4:00 pm, 6191 Helen C. White

Friday, October 26 English 100 Staff Meeting (Returning Instructors Only) Staff meeting for all returning English 100 Instructors 3:00 - 4:30, location TBA Contact: Matthew Capdevielle

November

Saturday, November 10 Nancy Linh Karls, Mikey Shapiro, Brad Hughes Madison Area Writing Center Colloquium During this colloquium, we'll talk informally about our venture into developing educational podcasts for our Writing Center, explore some conventions of this new genre, sample some of our completed work, offer a behind-the-scenes look at some of the editorial choices involved in writing and producing our podcasts, and invite your feedback and suggestions for future podcasts. 5:30 - 7:00 pm, The Writing Center's Computer Classroom (enter through 6171 Helen C. White Hall) Brad Hughes

Monday, November 12 Kevis Goodman, Associate Professor of English, University of California-Berkeley "Nostalgic Retreat in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head Middle Modernity Group Speaker Series Time & Location TBA www.wisc.edu/english/midmod/

Friday, November 16 Professors Keller and Bernstein Stepping into the Profession - Conferences How should graduate students choose what conferences to attend? How important is it to attend conferences, and why? What makes an effective conference paper proposal? How is preparing a conference paper different from preparing a publishable essay? 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., location TBA Contact: Lynn Keller or Susan Bernstein

Monday, November 19 Margo Crawford Brownbag Seminar with Margo Crawford: "Who is ‘The Man’ and Where is the ‘Black Woman’?" Join Margo Crawford in discussing the deeper issues that shape the race and gender politics of the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement. How does a comparison of anthologies such as The New Negro (1925), Shadowed Dreams: Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (1989), Black Fire (1968), and The Black Woman (1970) reveal the dominant and resistant packaging of black manhood and womanhood during these cultural movements? Why does the race and gender trouble of the Black Arts movement become inseparable from the packaging of a black family crisis? What is at stake for black women writers during these cultural movements? This brownbag seminar will explore these issues through a comparison of two essays written by Margo Natalie Crawford: "Who is ‘The Man’?: from Black Fire to The Black Woman" and "‘Perhaps Buddha is a Woman’: Women’s Poetry in the Harlem Renaissance." See website for readings. 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., SLIS Commons (4th Floor, Helen C. White) Contact: David Zimmerman http://www.english.wisc.edu/ascs/

Monday, November 19 Margo Crawford The Poetics of Trauma and the Black Diaspora: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Vision Locating the many coordinates of the black diaspora often becomes a mapping of historical trauma and the paths of resistance. This lecture examines the connections between trauma theory and black diaspora theory through a focus on the current South African Poet Laureate’s role in the 1960s and early 1970s U.S. Black Arts movement. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White Contact: David Zimmerman

Wednesday, November 28 Brad Wiles, Molly Fischer, Amanda Schnirring, and Cynthia Bachhuber Print Culture Colloquium: "Canonicity and the 'Legitimization' Process" Master’s students from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give an encore presentation of their talk at the 2007 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Conference in Minneapolis 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., 4207 Helen C. White Contact: Irene Hansen http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/index.html

Friday, November 30 Jennifer Wicke The Bananas of Modernity: Global Commodities and Modernism's World Part of the Modernisms/Modernities series on the The Global Commodity 4:00-5:30 p.m., 7191 Helen C. White Contact: Kevin Piper

Friday, November 30 English 100 Staff Meeting (All-Staff) Staff Meeting for all instructors teaching English 100 this semester. 3:00 - 4:30 pm, location TBA Contact: Matthew Capdevielle

December

Thursday, December 6 Jesse Lee Kercheval Fiction Reading Professor Jesse Lee Kercheval reads from her new book, THE ALICE STORIES 7:00-9:00 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White www.creativewriting.wisc.edu

Friday, December 7 Susan Bernstein and Lynn Keller Stepping into the Profession - Brown Bag Series Fellowships and Travel Grants for Graduate Students 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 7191 Helen C. White Lynn Keller or Susan Bernstein