2007 Events [upcoming]
April 03, 2007 - Amanda Anderson
Victorian Lecture Series
"The Skeptical George Eliot: Life & Theory in the Novels"
4:15pm, 326 Allen Building
April 06, 2007 - Angela Davis-Gardner
Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer
"Public Reading"
7:00pm, Rare Book Room
April 13, 2007 - Yopie Prins
Victorian Lecture Series
"Robert Browning, Transported by Meter"
4:15pm, Breedlove Room
April 20, 2007 - Nancy Armstrong
Victorian Lecture Series
"Charles Darwin, Novelist"
4:15pm - Old Trinity Room, West Union Building
April 26, 2007 - Gauri Viswanathan
Victorian Lecture Series
"Occultism, History, and Ethical Knowledge: Re-thinking the Secular"
4:15pm, * New Location: 326 Allen
September 25, 2007 - Symposium Discussion with Nancy Armstrong, Brown University
4:15 to 5:45 Breedlove Room
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October 23, 2007 - Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University: Public Lecture
4:15 to 6:00 Breedlove Room
Novels Before Nations: the Case of North America
Reading:
Ch. 1 from The Importance of Feeling English
October 30, 2007 - Robert Pinsky: Blackburn Visiting Writer
Poetry and Documentary Experience:
A Conversation at Documentary Studies
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 12-1:30 at Lyndhurst House
An open discussion with Robert Pinsky and Tom Rankin, Director of Doc Studies. Lunch will be provided.
Public Reading
Tuesday evening at 7:30
Doris Duke Center in Duke Gardens
Introduction by President Brodhead
October 31, 2007 - English Department Boo-fet Party
English Majors and Faculty, and students interested in being English Majors: come to the English Department Boo-fet Party!
Oct. 31 4-6 pm in the Old Trinity Room
October 31, 2007 - Memory and the Poet
A conversation with Robert Pinsky about memory, poetry, and aspects of writing.
Rare Book Room, 2:45-4 pm
December 03, 2007 - Margreta de Grazia Public Speaking
Margreta de Grazia (U. Penn) will be speaking on Dec. 3 in a "Before the Disciplines" series at 5:15 p.m. in Old Trinity. Her lecture is entitled "Anachronism before Diachrony."
November 01, 2007 - Graduate English "Work in Progress Forum"
5:30-7:00 pm in 328 Allen.
BILL KNIGHT: "Using Ovid to Keep the Wolves at Bay: Metamorphoses vs. Modernity in Scriblerian Satire." PHILIP STEER: "The Importance of Being Enormous: Victorian Fiction and
Theories of Imperial Spatiality."
Following the papers, a roundtable on conference attendance will take place. Topics will include:
abstract making, conference scouting, paper organizing, and question fielding.
First, second, and third year graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.
Light refreshments will be available (soda, beer, chips); feel free to bring food for yourself.
QUESTIONS? NATHAN.HENSLEY@DUKE.EDU
