VOX POPULI

Monday 4/7

4:30 PM. Comp Lit Works-in-Progress Colloquium – Professor Orlando Bentancor; 105 Chancellor Green

4:30 PM. Thomas Hauschild: Magic, Science, and Religion: A Re-Appraisal and the Self-Reflexive Approach; 219 Aaron Burr Hall

6:30 PM. Raymond Bellour: Cinema as Hypnosis; 10 East Pyne

Tuesday 4/8

4:30 PM. GAC Meeting! Hinds

4:30 PM. John Nathan: Recalling Japan: A poetics of Memoir; 302 Frist Campus Center

8:00 PM. Robert Alter: The Bible and American Fiction; McCosh Hall 50

Wednesday 4/9

12:00 PM. Generals meeting for second-year students; Hinds

4:30 PM. Contemporary Poetry Colloquium: Planning Meeting; Hinds

4:30 PM. Fiction Writers Gary Shteygnart and Rick Moody Will Read from Their Works; Lewis Center for the Arts, James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street

6:30 PM. Raymond Bellour: Unfolding the Emotions; 10 East Pyne

7:00 PM. Junot Diaz: Dominican Tolkiens: Diasporic Nerdiness and the Quest for the Divine; McCormick 101

Thursday 4/10

12:30 PM. Sarah Wasserman, Works In Progress: A Mary That Matters: Tracing The Material Legacy Of Chicago’s Lady Of The Underpass; McCosh B11

4:30 PM. Jahan Ramazani: The Global, the Transnational, and the Stretch of Poetry; 48 McCosh Hall

Friday 4/11

12:00 PM. Graduate Seminar with Jahan Ramazani (previous sign-up required); Location TBA

1:30 PM. Linday Reckson: Each Attitude a Syllable: Jamesian Pragmatism and the Syntax of Belief; Chancellor Green 105; Presented as a part of the American Liberalism Conference, click here for more info: http://www.princeton.edu/~csrelig/religious_liberalism.html

Please note that previously, certain events were listed incorrectly. I have updated this entry so that it now accurately reflects the week’s events. My apologies! -Sarah

Monday 3/31

4:30 PM. Guillermo Brown: “Shuffle Mode;” Woolworth Building Room 102

Tuesday 4/1

2:30 PM. Coffee & Conversation with Branka Arsic; Hinds Library

4:30 PM. Branka Arsic: “The Architecture of Grief: Thoreau on Dwelling;” McCosh 40

3:00 PM. At Rutgers: Facts and Counterfacts in the Nineteenth Century–

Mary A. Favret (Indiana University): “Fields of Battle, Fields of History” and

Andrew H. Miller (Indiana University): “The Pathos of Being One: A Letter to My Sister”; Murray Hall, Plangere Writing Center, Room 305

Wednesday 4/2

12:30 PM. Graduate Student Colloquia: Works In Progress From Amanda Sandoval; McCosh 40

Thursday 4/3

4:30 PM. Critical Encounters Presents Anne Carson: “Possessive Used As Drink (Me): a lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets;” Hagan Dance Studio, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street

Friday 4/4

12:00 PM. American Studies Workshop Presents Josh Dubler: “Religious Practice in a Maximum Security Prison;” McCosh 40

Monday 3/24

4:30 PM. Frank Bidart: ‘Bain Swiggett Seminar “Three Propositions About The Relation Between Space And Time In A Poem”‘; McCosh 48

Tuesday 3/25

4:30 PM. American playwright Christopher Durang: Lecture and Q&A; 219 Burr Hall

5:00 PM. Frank Bidart: Readings from his new collection of poems: Watching the Spring Festival; Labyrinth Books Reading Room

8:00 PM. Toni Morrison Lecture by Edwidge Danticat; Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. Event is free but tickets required: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/60/23O21/index.xml?section=announcements

Wednesday 3/26

12:30 PM. Casey Walker, WIP: ‘”No Time For History”: Henry James And New York City”‘; McCosh 40

4:30 PM. 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium: Paul Fry; McCosh 40

Thursday 3/27

2:30 PM. Americanist Colloquium hosts a discussion with Jennifer Fleissner. Coffee & cookies will be served,all are welcome. Hinds Library

4:30 PM. Americanist Job Talk! Jennifer Fleissner:”Earth-Eating, Addiction, Nostalgia: Charles Chesnutt’s Diasporic Regionalism”; McCosh 40

4:30 PM. Nicholas Dawidoff: Next to Love is the Desire for Love: The Search for Meaning in American Memoir; James M. Stewart ’32 Theater

Friday 3/28

n.b. Tis the season for prospectives– many thanks to Jason and the entire department for making the new admits feel welcome!

n.b. part two. There won’t be any events postings or updates next week, as your bloggers will sign off and unplug for Spring Break!

Monday 3/10

4:30 PM. “Performance Registers And Performing Blackness: Excerpts” Tracie Morris, Mathey College Common Room

4:30 PM. “The Time in Between: Toward a Poetics of Dissociation,” Marina van Zuylen;103 Chancellor Green

Tuesday 3/11

Wednesday 3/12

5:30 PM. “Surrealism in the Jungle: Avantgarde and Ecocriticism,” Ursula Heise;103 Chancellor Green

4:30 PM. 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium: “Love Thinking,” Adela Pinch, McCosh 40

Thursday 3/14

Friday 3/15

Monday 3/3

4:30 PM. “From Liberation to Mutual Fund: Images of Christ in Black Politics,” Melissa V. Harris-Lacewell; Location: Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

5:30 PM. “Theater after Film after World War II,” Martin Harries, Location: 010 East Pyne

Tuesday 3/4

4:30 PM. Alexander Nehamas – President Lecture Series: “Because It Was He, Because It Was I” The Good Of Friendship, Location: Friend 101

Wednesday 3/5

Thursday 3/6

Friday 3/7

9:30 AM-5:00 PM. Modernism and the Unconscious Colloquium, Location: 106 McCormick Hall, Co-sponsored by the Departments of German and Art & Archaeology and the Program in

12:00 PM. American Studies Workshop: Politically Defeated but with Power: The writing of Luiseño Indian Scholar Pablo Tac, l821-41, Speaker: Lisbeth Haas, Location: Dickinson 210

Additional Information: As lunch is served, please make a reservation by email: mkilleen@princeton.edu or by phone: 258-4710.

Saturday 3/8

10:00 AM- 1:30 PM. Modernism and the Unconscious, Location: 106 McCormick Hall, Co-sponsored by the Departments of German and Art & Archaeology and the Program in

Monday 2/25

4:30 PM. “Cuba Linda: A Revue in Three Acts;” Alexandra Vazquez, Postdoctoral Associate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University; 106 McCormick Hall

4:30 PM. “Circling Squares: Human Rights and the Dissensual Bildungsroman;” Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University; 010 East Pyne

Tuesday 2/26

Wednesday 2/27

4:30 PM. Poet/Nonfiction Writers Mary Karr and Honor Moore will read from their works; 185 Nassau Street, Lewis Center for the Arts, James M. Stewart ’32 Theater

5:30 PM. Idealism/Modernism: Wittgenstein’s Duck/Rabbit and the Emergence of European Modernism 1870-1914; Toril Moi, Duke University; 103 Chancellor Green

Thursday 2/28

4:30 PM. “Storytelling in Television;” Katie Jacobs, Executive Producer of HOUSE; Lewis Center for the Arts, James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street

Friday 2/29

Saturday 3/1

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

Monday 2/11

Tuesday 2/12

4:30 PM. American Studies Workshop: Was Marie White?: The Trajectory of a Question in the United States; Speaker: Nell Irwin Painter; Dickinson Hall 210

7:00 PM. Word of Mouth: an evening of literary translation; Faculty and students from the Department of Comparative Literature; Whitman College Theater

Wednesday 2/13

12:15 PM. The Scholar as Teacher, Professor Lex Smits, MAE; 328 Frist Campus Center

4:30 PM. Performance Workshop Meeting with Professor Stuart Sherman; Chancellor Green 105

5:30 PM. “On Poetic and Ethical Lapse” Professor Gabriela Basterra; 010 East Pyne

Thursday 2/14

Don’t worry, GAC will be your valentine.

Friday 2/15

10:00 AM. (Start Time) Notations: Writing in the Arts

Speakers: Mario Carpo,”Geometry, Algorism, and Drawings: The Invention of Architectural Notation in the Renaissance;” Thomas Schestag, “Vermeer’s Signatures;” Andre Lepecki, “The Page as Virtual Stage: Actualizing Writing and Drawing in Allan Kaprow’s ’18 Happenings in 6 Parts’ (1959);” Agathe Sultan, “There Where Notes Are Not;” Peter Szendy, “Annotating Notation: The Point of Punctuation”; 106 McCormick Hall; contact mjreilly@princeton.edu for times of lectures

12:00 PM. Professorship 101: Is there Life after 5th year?: On DCE status, finding support, and juggling it all; Brought to you by GAC and Starry Schor; Especially for 3rd and 4th Year Students; Hinds

Saturday 2/16

Join Professor Stuart Sherman this Wednesday 13 February, 4:30, in Chancellor Green 105 for the first Performance Workshop meeting of the semester. See the post below for a further description.

Food plentifully provided!