Fall Events Announced
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Visiting Speakers Schedule for Fall 2011
Sept. 20, 5pm, ARTS 160: Gary Geddes, author, discussing his new book:
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(creative writing, poetry, African literature, postcolonial theory)
Nov. 16, 4pm, ARTS 145: , Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University
鈥淎cting in Ruins: One Late Capitalist and His Later Capitalist Double鈥�
(drama and theatre, performance studies, reenactment in performance, cultural studies)
Nov. 17, 12:30 pm, LEA 927: , Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University (co-sponsored by IGSF)
鈥淪o You Think You Can Dance Straight? Same-Sex Ballroom and Reality Television鈥�
(queer theory, drama and theatre, performance studies, cultural studies, gender studies, media theory)
Nov. 21, 4:30 pm, ARTS 145: John Jacob Spector Lecture: , English and American Studies, Yale University
"Bodies at War: Baghdad, Dresden, New York City鈥�
(world literature, American literature, critical theory)
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Related Fall Events:
Sept. 22, 6pm, Goethe Institute (418 Sherbrooke St. E) , Communications Studies, Baruch College, CUNY
Keynote Speaker, (presented by the Project on European Cinema, co-sponsored by the Department of English): 鈥�Tableau Mort: Capital Punishment, Spectacle, and Cinema鈥�
(film studies, cultural studies)
Sept. 27, 5:30pm, Moyse Hall: 鈥淭he Public Life of Arts and Ideas鈥�, presented by IPLAI, with Kent Stetson, Margie Gillis, Darin Barney and Desmond Manderson, moderated by Paul Yachnin.
(fine arts, dance, drama and theatre, law, humanities)
Oct. 11 (time, place and title TBA), , English, University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by IGSF, Media@McGill and AHCS.
(queer theory, affect theory, disability studies)
Nov. 4, 3pm (tentatively), Thompson House: , American Studies, University of Minnesota
Keynote speaker, biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Department of English), 鈥�鈥�The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference鈥�
(queer theory, critical race studies, gender studies, cultural studies)
Nov. 4, 3 pm (tentatively), Thompson House: , English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba.
Keynote speaker, biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Department of English), Title TBA
(cultural studies, globalization, Canadian Studies)
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Fall Shakespeare Team events: (seminar room, 2nd floor, 3475 Peel St.)
Sept. 21 7PM Galen Strawson, 鈥淎gainst Narrativity鈥�
Oct. 25 5PM (in Arts West 25): Patrick Neilson, workshop on All鈥檚 Well That Ends Well
Nov. 15 5pm Mustapha Fahmi, TBA
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Coming Up in Winter 2012 (more info to come)
Jan. 25 PhD Colloquium
Jan. 31 Reynolds Visiting Artist Erin Mour茅 (workshops with Mour茅 will be held on Feb. 3 and 4)
Feb. 28 Faculty Colloquium
