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UC Davis English DepartmentCalendar of Events 2009 - 2010
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November
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| 11/04/09 |
Graduate Student Reading Series featuring Aaron Begg (Poet), Daniel Grace (Fiction) and Megan Cummins (Fiction) |
7:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 11/09/09 |
EGSA Scholar's Symposium Series Presents: Fall 2009 Dissertation Symposium featuring Keri Wolf, Vanessa Rapatz, Catherine Fung and Sara Anderson. Faculty Respondent: Matthew Stratton |
6:15 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
11/12/09 |
Poetry reading by English department Professor Emerta Sandra Gilbert. ---------------------------- The Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents poet Eileen Myles |
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. - -------- 7:30 p.m. |
Davis Arborteum (in case of rain, 126 Voorhies) -------- 126 Voorhies |
| 11/13/09 | American Cultures and Politics Research Cluster (ACAP) first quarterly colloquium featuring English graduate students Gina Caison and Danielle Shaw. |
4:15 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 11/17/09 |
Wizard of Oz Roundtable sponsored by the UC Davis Filmgrads featuring Mindi McMann, Andrew Hageman (English Grads) and Moises Park, Valerie Hecht (Film Studies Grads). Presentations, Discussion and Screening and light snacks |
6:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 11/24/09 |
Talk by Julie Sze |
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
228 Voorhies |
December
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| 12/02/09 |
The Early Modern Research Cluster's featured speaker is History Professor Kathy Stuart. Her talk is entitled "Her insolence, her whorish heart, and cruel character': Emotional Profiles in Early Modern German Murder Trials". Reception follow. |
4:10 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 12/03/09 |
President's Dissertation-Year Fellow Dan Thomas Glass talk: Total Noise: Grandmaster Flash and Charles Bernstein in New York City ------------------ English Graduate Student Reading series featuring fiction writer Noah McGee and poets Brian Ang & Naushad Ulhaq. MC for the evening is Jonathan Hoffer. |
3:00 p.m. ------ 8:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies ----- 126 Voorhies |
January
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| 1/07/10 |
Graduate Student Creative Writers Reading featuring fiction writers Keith Carver and Ashley Clarke and poet Melissa Mack. |
7:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 1/13/10 | Fiction writer Stephen Elliot reading | 8:00 p.m. | 126 Voorhies |
| 1/19/10 |
Poet Robin Ekiss reading her latest work |
8:00 p.m.- - 10:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 1/20/10 |
"Education Abroad for English Majors" presents English majors sharing information and their experiences studying abroad. |
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 1/21/10 |
Public Lecture: "The Primal Scenes of Political Theology." by Jacques Lezra, Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at New York University. |
4:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
February |
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| 2/04/10 |
Grant Writing in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Instructor: Eric Schroeder, Ph.D., University Writing Program. Please register: http://iccweb.ucdavis.edu/graduates/grantwritingsignup.htm |
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 2/08/10 |
Early Modern Research Cluster featuring Professor Wendy Wall, Northwestern University. Title of talk is "Kitchen Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Recipe Books in Early Modern England." |
3:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 2/11/10 |
Graduate Student Reading featuring poets Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi an Lauren Norton, and fiction writer Maria Kuznetsova. Emcee for the evening is Daniel Robinson. A special feature of the evening is the announcement of the Pamela Maus Contest in Fiction and Poetry winners. |
7:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 2/16/10 |
Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Cluster presents Julia Simon, professor and chair of the UCD French Department. Talk entitled "Rousseau among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics." |
5:10 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 2/24/10 |
Winter Scholar's Symposium "Disappearing Acts: Literary Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity". Deadline for submissions is February 1. Contacts: Sharada Balachandran Orihuela (sbalacha@ucdavis.edu) or Gina Caison (gmcaison@ucdavis.edu). | 3:30 - 6:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 2/25/10 |
Associate Professor, UC San Diego and Novelist Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum reading |
7:30 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
March |
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| 3/03/10 |
Queer Research Cluster featuring Assistant Professor of English Nadia Ellis, UC Berkeley, discussing her work on queer sexualities and black migration to and from London in the 1950s and 1960s. |
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
TBA |
April
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June |