Events for the Week of 2/18/08

Monday 2/18

4:30 PM. “The Birth and Death of Brazilian Modernism; “Justin Read, University of Buffalo

Tuesday 2/19

12:00 PM. Americanist Colloquium Meeting; Hinds

4:30 PM. GAC Meeting; Hinds

Wednesday 2/20

12:00 PM. American Studies Workshop: The Mystical World of Colonial American Jews

Speaker: Jonathan Sarna; Scheide Caldwell 209; Additional Information: As lunch is served, please make a reservation by email to mkilleen@princeton.edu or by phone at 258-4710

4:30 PM. “The Deep Eighteenth Century: Silence and Unspoken Thought in Fielding’s Drama”

Speaker: Joseph Roach, Professor of Theater, English and African-American Studies, Yale University; Location: TBA

4:30 PM. “Zeno’s Revenge: Proust and Valéry, or the Calculus of Personality”

Speaker: Richard Goodkin Professor of French, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Location: 103 Chancellor Green

4:30 PM. Poet Natasha Trethewey and Fiction Writer/Essayist George Saunders Will Read from Their Works; 185 Nassau Street, Lewis Center for the Arts, James M. Stewart ’32 Theater

Thursday 2/21

12:00 PM. English/PEI Talk: Conversation with Robert Hass

4:30 PM. Poetry Reading, Robert Hass

Friday 2/22

Saturday 2/23

4:15 PM. Heyman Center (Columbia) Presents ARJUN APPADURAI, DIPESH CHAKRABARTHY, and SHELDON POLLOCK

“Language, Culture, and Power: New Directions in South Asian Studies”

Part of the Disciplinary Legacies Conference; Heyman Center Common Room, East Campus