UC
Davis English Department
Calendar of Events
Spring Quarter 2008 |
| 3/05/08 |
Fredric Jameson talk on "Globalization and Totality". This event is open to the public. |
5:00 - 7:30 p.m. |
University Club |
| 3/06/08 |
Lecture by Professor Jeremy Braddock, Cornell University. Topic: Modernism in American Literature
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University Writing Program second annual Conversations with Writers presents James Trefil, Clarence j. Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University. Topic: Writing about Science: A Story in Three Heresies. Event is free and open to the public. |
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
4:10 - 6:00 p.m.
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126 Voorhies
126 Voorhies
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| 3/12/08 |
English Department Graduate Student Reading series presents poets Joe Atkins, Monica Storss, Seth Forrest, and fiction writer Carmen Lau. |
8:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 3/13/08 |
Professor Timothy Morton talk: "Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, and Other Alien Beings".
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Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents it's last fiction reading of the series. Authors are Rikki Ducornet and Brian Evenson. This event is co-sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and /Poets and Writers Magazine/.
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2:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies
126 Voorhies
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| 3/14/08 |
English Department Graduate Student Scholars Symposium presents "Spaces for Annotation". Talks by graduate students Colleen Pauza, Chris Schaberg and Nick Valvo. Special faculty presentation by Dr. Riché Richardson entitled "Condoleezza/Race". |
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 3/20/08 |
UC Davis creative writing graduate student reading series |
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. |
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. |
| 3/31/08 |
Mario Biagioli, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, talk entitled "The Author as Vegetable: Problems with the Nature of the Knowledge Commons". This event is co-sponsored by the UC Davis Law School, Science & Technology Studies, English, History, Cultural Studies, and the Davis Humanities Institute. |
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. |
Law School, Room 2011 |
| 4/02/08 |
Kriss Ravetto, Senior Lecturer of Film and Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, talk entitled "The Digital Uncanny: Reconfiguring Embodiment in the Age of Surveillance". This event is co-sponsored by English, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Technocultural Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and the Davis Humanities Institute. |
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 4/17/08 |
Talk by Ralph Hanna. Further information forthcoming.
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Prized Author Reading. Further information forthcoming).
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Graduate Student Reading Series |
3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
6:10 - 8:00 p.m.
8:10 p.m.
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10:00 p.m.
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126 Voorhies
126 Voorhies
126 Voorhies
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| 4/22/08 |
University Writing Program second annual Conversations with Writers presents Gary F. Marcus, Professor of Psychology, New York University. Topic: Kluge: The Haphazard Human Mind.
Event is free and open to the public. (Contact: Gary Goodman<gsgoodman@ucdavis.edu> |
4:10 - 6:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 4/24/08 |
Davis Humanities Institute Early Modern Cluster presents Vincent Barletta. Further information forthcoming. |
11:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 5/01/08 |
Davis Humanities Institute Early Modern Cluster Workshop |
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 5/14/08 |
Johns Hopkins University Professor Giovanni Arrighi, talk entitled: "From the Washington to the Beijing consensus and Beyond" (with particular emphasis on the global South). Hosted jointly by CHSC, DHI, the departments of English, Sociology, History and Anthropology; and by the Programs in Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. |
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 5/15/08 |
Graduate Student Reading Series |
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 5/19/08 |
Davis Humanities Institute American Series |
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 5/22/08 |
Davis Humanities Institute Early Modern Cluster and the English Department present Will Fisher, Associate Professor of English at Lehman College, CUNY, and author of "Gender in Early Modern Literature and Culture", and several articles including "queer money".
Workshop: "Stray[ing] lower where the pleasant fountains lie: Cunnilingus in Shakespeare's "venus and Adonis" For lunch reservations contact: Vanessa Rapatz<vlrapatz@ucdavis.edu>
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Talk: "Love's wealthy croppe of kisses: Early Modern Kissing and the History of Sexuality" |
12-1:30 p.m.
4:10 p.m.
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126 Voorhies
126 Voorhies
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| 5/27/08 |
Poet Frank Bidart reading |
Time: TBA |
Location: TBA |
| 5/28/08 |
Post-Colonial Research Cluster |
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies |
| 6/05/08 |
English Department's Year-end Celebration & Awards Ceremony |
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. |
126 Voorhies & Courtyard |
