2

University offices Reopen

5

Spring term
Classes Begin

PHORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA

4130 Posvar Hall

12:00

PHIL SMITH

The Cup & Chaucer
in Hillman Library

12:30-1:30

PITTSBURGH FILM COLLOQUIUM

1228 CL
5:30PM

FANTASY STUDIES FELLOWSHIP

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Panera Bread, 3800
Forbes Avenue

29

PATRICE PETRO

Lecture
501 Cathedral of Learning

1:00pm

Free admission
and open to the
public

http://www.filmstudies.
pitt.edu /events/fy09
/petro.pdf

CALOL V. HAMILTON

Our Gay, Black, Jewish Founding Father?: Alexander Hamilton in Fiction, Poetry, Rumor, and His Own Words.

12 noon, 512-CL

MICROCONFERENCE
ON AFRICAN
AMERICAN POETRY

Arnold Rampersad
501-CL at noon

Carl Phillips, G.E. Patterson,
and mendi Obadike

501-CL at 2pm

Poetry Readong
Giant Eagle Audiotrium,
CMU at 7pm

WRITERS' CAFE

"Finish What You Start! "
at Writers' Cafe

The Writing Center
from 3-5pm

HANNAH R. JOHNSON

"Allegories of Violence: the
medieval Ritual Murder
Accusation and Scholarly
Projects of Memory "

For location details contact
Jen Waldron

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ARTEMIS FOWL BY EOIN
COLFER

Fantasy Studies Fellowship

CL-314, from 6-7pm

SUSAN Z. ANDRADE

"Realism, Reception, and
1968"

CL-512, at 12 noon

LISE FUNDERBURG

CNF author Reading and
Q&A

CL-501 at 1:00pm

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ANNE FRANCES
WYSOCKI

Unfitting Beauties of
Transducing Bodies

Lecture: 12:15pm at 12A
Chevron Hall

Seminar: 9:15am in room
362-CL

LYNN CASMIER-PAZ

The Problem of Power: Literacy
and Slave Narratives

CL-501 at 4:15pm

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WILLIAM HENRY LEWIS

Pittsburgh Contemporary
Writers Series

CL-501 at 8:30pm

SYMPOSIUM ON
THEATRE AND
COGNITIVE STUDIES

Mark Johnson

Charity Randall Theatre

PSYMPOSIUM ON
THEATRE AND
COGNITIVE
STUDIES

Mark Johnson

PSYMPOSIUM
ON THEATRE
AND COGNITIVE
STUDIES

Mark Johnson

BOUNDARY 2

A Colloquium on
"Secularism"

10am to Noon

501-CL

MICHAEL KIMBALL
AND RANDALL
BROWN

Writers, bloggers, editors
with a focus on Flash
Fiction

7:30 PM in 501-CL

PROFESSOR
TONY
NOVOSEL

"Status Report: Northern Ireland"

8:00 PM in 3500-CL

POETRY READING
BY ALICIA
OSTRIKER

Kresge Auditorium
Carlow University

7:30 PM
(booktable at 7:00)

JOAN QUIGLEY

Reading and Q&A
1:00pm in 501-CL

ALICIA OSTRIKER

"Re-Deeming
Scriptures:
Contemporary
American Midrash"
4:00 PM
144-CL
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STEPHANIE STICKLAND READING

Zone : Zero
Room 324 in the Cathedral of Learning
at 4:15
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HERMANN HERLINGHAUS "Affection-Images of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Film"

1228-CL at 5:30pm

NAOMI WALLACE

"Big history from the
small self: imagination
and writing for the
theatre"

4:00-5:00pm in 501-CL

ROBERTA
GROSSMAN

"Making Films About Things That Make You Mad "
1:00 PM in 501-CL

JOHN BRENKMAN

Paul de Man and the Vocation of Criticism
4:30 PM in 239-CL

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FANTASY STUDIES
FELLOWSHIP

Inkheart
By Cornelia Funke 6-7:00pm at Panera Bread on Forbes Avenue

INFORMATION
MEETING

for interested English majors about Graduate Programs in Literature, Writing, and Education 4:30-5:45pm in 501-CL

HENRY DAVIS

What can Salish languages tell us?

501-CL at 4:00pm

ELLEN MCGRATH
SMITH

Mail-Order Modernism:
A Way to Read Gertrude
Stein's Tender Buttons

512-CL at Noon

JULIA
MICKENBERG

"Radical Children's Literature in the United States"

4:30 PM in 501-CL

CHRISTINE
VACHON

Shooting to Kill

5:00 PM in 343 Alumni Hall

THE COMPOSITION PROGRAM

"Reading by Teachers"

Noon-2pm in 501-CL
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PROFESSOR MARK B.N. HANSEN

"Extending Consciousness or Cognition?: Digital Media and Transcendental Sensibility"

5:00pm in 324-CL

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PAUL MULDOON

Pittsburgh Contemporary
Writers Series

8:30pm in Frick Fine Arts
Auditorium

REMEMBERING
THE FUTURE

The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean

8:30am-10:00pm

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KEVIN BARTIG

Listening to the
Eisenstein-Prokofiev
Collaboration

Noon in 104 David
Lawrence

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MICHELE MORANO

Reading from her book
Grammer Lessons:
Translating a Life in Spain

4:00pm in 501-CL

REMEMBERING
THE FUTURE

The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean

8:30am-6:00pm

SYLVIA ADAMSON AND ALAN DURANT

Investigating keywords In a Digital Age: Building On the Example of Raymond Williams

2:00pm in 501-CL

LITERARY
JOURNALISM AND
THE BOOK

A Panel Moderated by Elizabeth Kadetsky

1:00pm in 501-CL

PAUL A. BOVE

Remembering Human Value: Henry Adams' Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

12 noon in 512-CL

CHRISTIAN THORNE

"Serial Killers, Murderous Queers, and the Problem of Cosmopolitan Violence"

4:00pm in 501-CL

MANIL SURI

Come to the Studio Theatre (Cathedral Basement)

6:45pm- a talk by Manil Suri

8:00pm- "City Lights, Receding" by Cory Tamler

13
Students Must
RSVP to Adam
(adc54@pitt.edu)
for the
Graduation Ceremony
before this date

GIORGIO BERTELLINI

Valentino/Mussolini: The Italian Masculinities of the Divo and the Duce in 1920s America

12:00pm in 501-CL

FACULTY HONORS RECEPTION

Reception honoring the outstanding academic achievements of our majors and the winners of the departmental undergraduate prizes

4:00pm in 501-CL

THE LEGACY OF
FELLINI

A celebration of Federico Fellini's influence on cinema

2:00pm in the Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne University
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A PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE WRITING CAREERS

Writing for Foundations and the NonProfit Sector

7 - 8:30pm in 206-CL

INAUGURAL
NARRATIVE AND
TECHNOLOGY
PROJECT
SHOWCASE

Presentations will consist
of media-rich creative
non-fiction, multi-media
web creations, literary
gaming, instructional &
webisodic videos, grapic
novels, and much more...

3:00-6:00pm in 512-CL

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM 09

The New Positive Hero

May 4 - May 9

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM 09

The New Positive Hero

May 4 - May 9

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM 09

The New Positive Hero

May 4 - May 9

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM 09

The New Positive Hero

May 4 - May 9

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM 09

The New Positive Hero

May 4 - May 9

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM 09

The New Positive Hero

May 4 - May 9

WORKING CLASS
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE

Link to site

THE POINT OF
PITTSBURGH

Keynote Event

WORKING CLASS
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE

Link to site

WORKING CLASS
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE

Link to site

WORKING CLASS
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE

Link to site

FALL TERM
REGISTRATION
PERIOD ENDS

FALL TERM
CLASSES BEGIN

LABOR DAY
UNIVERSITY
CLOSED

FALL TERM
ADD/DROP
PERIOD ENDS

DR. JAMES R.
KINCAID

Here's Looking at You,
Kid!: How We Look at
The Child and Why We
Shouldn't Look That Way

4:30 PM in 501-CL

ELLEN HERMAN

Scientific Rules for Realness:
Matching and Its Critics in American Adoption

4:00-6:00 PM in the History Department Lounge, 3703 Posvar Hall

GREG GRANDIN
"American Exceptionalism: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of William
Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy"
3:00-5:00 PM
in 501-CL

ELLIS AVERY
Reading from a Novel-in-progress

6:00 PM
in 501-CL

SHARON MARCUS COLLOQUIUM

12:30 PM
in 526-CL

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SHARON MARCUS LECTURE
“Salome and the Drama of Celebrity”
4:30 PM
in 501-CL

MIDWEST
CONFERENCE ON
BRITISH STUDIES

'http://mwcbs.edublogs.org

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NICHOLAS C. TUCCI LECTURE

“Shakespeare Italianate: Skeptical Crises in Three Plays of Shakespeare”
5:00 PM
in 244b-CL

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SHERRIE FLICK

"From (Very) Short to (Pretty Darned) Long: Moving from Flash Fiction to the Novel"

3:00-5:00 PM
in The Writing Center,
at M-2 Thaw Hall

MIDWEST
CONFERENCE
ON BRITISH
STUDIES

'http://mwcbs.
edublogs.org

MIDWEST
CONFERENCE
ON BRITISH
STUDIES

'http://mwcbs.e
dublogs.org

FALL BREAK
FOR STUDENTS

CLASSES MEET
ACCORDING
TO A MONDAY
SCHEDULE

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LUCY FISCHER

"Body Double: The Author Incarnate
in the Cinema”

4:00 PM in 2500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Reception to follow
2501 Posvar Hall

ESSENTIAL INTERNSHIP

Snaring One in the Media, Public Relations, and Publishing
8:00 PM in the Twentieth Century Club auditorium,
4201 Bigelow Boulevard
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JULIA STERN COLLOQUIUM

"Teaching Faulkner"
12:30 PM
in 526-CL

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JULIA STERN LECTURE
"Family Troubles in the House Divided: Slave Violence in Mary Chestnut's Civil War Narratives",
4:30 PM
in 501-CL

THE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP COOPERATIVE

"The Subaltern Speaks in Mysterious Ways"
3:00 PM in 501-CL

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SARAH BAGLEY

Works-In-Progress Colloquium
12:00 PM in 512-CL

SPRING TERM
REGISTRATION
AND ADD/DROP
CAN BEGIN

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FANTASY STUDIES
FELLOWSHIP
Join Us for a Spooky Read-Along
2:00-3:00 PM
in 526-CL
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WRITERS' CAFE
A panel on graduate study for writers and critics
3:00-5:00 PM
M-2 Thaw Hall

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TONY BOGUES
LECTURE
Critical Thinking and Ways of Life: A Radical Politics of the Imagination
2:30-4:30 PM
501-CL
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GEORGE LAMMING
LECTURE
The Politics of Theory: Caribbean Literature and the Search for a New Critical Language
4:30-6:30 PM
501-CL
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JOSHUA LUND
COLLOQUIUM
"Let Plunder: Altamirano's Mexico and the Problem of Paramilitarism"
12:30 PM
512-CL

FALL TERM
DEADLINE TO
SUBMIT MONITORED WITHDRAWAL FORMS
TO DEAN'S OFFICE
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GEORGE LAMMING
COLLOQUIUM

3:00-4:30 PM
512-CL

31
A BOUNDARY 2
SYMPOSIUM

9:30-5:00 PM
501-CL