Calendar of Events
- Fall 2009 Events
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- Summer 2009 Events
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Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public and free of charge.
Fall 2009
8/31/09
EGO Teaching Workshop. Gary Hink and Cari Keebaugh present tips on teaching with technology. This workshop will especially interest instructors who currently or would like to use web sites, blogs, discussion forums, etc. (in addition to/beyond e-learning and simple "syllabus-in-HTML" pages). Topics will be tailored to the needs of the workshop participants. This workshop is a great place to bounce ideas off others and get advice from others who have been there. 5–7 PM. 150 Pugh Hall.
9/2/09
EGO Teaching Workshop. Melissa Mellon presents teaching strategies for teaching and building assignments. General topics-applying to AML, Brit and Film classes-may include: building syllabi, choosing a reading list, creating assignments, and pedagogical practices, among others. Topics may change depending on the needs of the workshop participants. All years and levels of experience welcome. 10:30 AM–12:30 PM. 150 Pugh Hall.
9/10/09
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Anastasia Kozak and Hilary Jacqmin will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
9/10/09
EGO Teaching Workshop. Lyndsay Brown and Trisha Kannanwill highlight teaching strategies for teaching American and British literature and film. They will cover some of the department requirements, such as how to approach AML 2070 versus AML 2410, and will discuss any other areas of concern, such as in-class assignments versus formal paper assignments; whether or not to give a final exam; what texts to choose; and techniques regarding class discussions. 5–7 PM. 150 Pugh Hall.
9/14/09
EGO Teaching Workshop. Gary Hink and Cari Keebaugh present teaching strategies for building assignments. General topics – applying to American and British Literature and Film classes – may include: building syllabi, choosing a reading list, creating assignments, (types, major/minor, critical/creative/hybrid) and pedagogical practices, among others. Topics may change depending on the needs of the workshop participants. All years and levels of experience welcome. 5–7 PM. 150 Pugh Hall.
9/15/09
EGO Teaching Workshop. Christina Van Houten and Jordan Dominy present teaching strategies for teaching American Literature. More to the point, this workshop will model how an American Literature course might address a special topic, specific theme, or particular period. It will model “special topics” by way of “regionalisms” in twentieth-century American studies. This workshop, therefore, will focus on selecting reading lists (what kinds of texts work, what kinds don't), introducing theory as part of a pedagogical toolkit (how to contextualize syllabus readings in a larger academic discourse), and teasing out the way in which literature might open-up to larger historical narratives (how the assigned texts might interrogate larger political, cultural, and social movements). 4–6 PM. 150 Pugh Hall.
9/15/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “A Boy’s Book of the Scrub: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Writing of The Yearling.” Florence M. Turcotte, Literary Manuscripts Archivist, UF Special Collections. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
9/24/09
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Harry Leeds and John Westbrook will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
10/8/09
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Zacc Coker-Dukowitz and Terita Heath-Wlaz will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
10/15/09The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? Padgett Powell discusses his new book. 7 PM. Prairie Creek Lodge, 7204 CR 234. |
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10/18/09
Historic Photos of the University of Florida Football. Kevin McCarthy discusses his new book. 2 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
10/20/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “When Fantasy is Reality, or How to Make a World?” Stephanie A. Smith, UF Professor of English and Fantasy Fiction Writer. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
10/22/09
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Aaron Thier and David Fishman will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
10/23/09
EGO Publishing Workshop. Susan Hegeman, Marsha Bryant, Ramona Caponegro, and Carolyn Kelley will address the publishing process and cover several topics concerning the world of scholarly publishing. Topics will include how to select journals to publish in, how to write a structured abstract, tips on writing the paper, and impact factors. All years (and questions) welcome. 4–5:30 PM. Place: 150 Pugh Hall.
10/28/09
Child of All Nations. Michael Hofmann reads from his new translation of a novel by Irmgad Keun. 8 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
11/5/09
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Christina Nichol and Bredt Bredthauer will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
11/12–11/13/092009 EGO conference “Home/sickness: Desire, Decay, and the Seduction of Nostalgia.” Dominick LaCapra (Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University) will give the keynote address, “Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma,” Friday, 11/13. 7 PM. Ulster Atrium. For the full conference schedule, visit the conference website. (Click on image to view a full-size version of the poster) |
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11/13/09
Good Bye DDR: Memory and Material Culture. Roundtable discussion with Franz Futterknecht, Brian Ladd, Elizabeth Mittman, Barbara Mennel. Sponsored by the Center for The Humanities and the Public Sphere with support from the Rothman Fund. 4 PM. Dauer Hall, Ruth McGown Room.
11/17/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “Unwrapping Stories: Recent Must-Reads for Holiday Giving.” John Cech, UF Professor of English and Director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture, and Ramona Caponegro, Coordinator of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
11/18/09Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. Phil Wegner discusses his new book. 8 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue. |
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11/22/09
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Kate Sayre and Rachel McGahey will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
12/6/09
“An Evening with William Shakespeare.” Sidney Homan and the graduate students in this fall’s Shakespeare seminar present a collage of scenes from the plays. The will perform everything from Bottom as Pyramus, to Cleopatra with the asps, the great love scenes, Lear and Cordelia, Viola and Olivia, Hal and the French Princess, Kate and Petruchio, a smattering of sonnets, from The Comedy of Errors to The Tempest. Tickets are sold at the door the night of the performance for $5. 8 PM. Acrosstown Repertory Theatre (619 South Main Street).
Spring 2010
2/21–2/23/10
FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival. Details TBA.
2/25-2/27/10
“Futures of Digital Studies.” The 5th Digital Assembly conference at University of Florida brings in conversation digital artists and digital theorists. The keynote speakers will be Joseph Tabbi (Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and President of the Electronic Literature Organization.) and John Cayley (Visitng Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University). The event features both a conference and an exhibition of digital works in the UF Reitz gallery. A round table videoconference featuring transnational connections with renowned scholars from US, Canada and Europe (Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Lev Manovich, Jerome McGann, Matthew Kirschnbaum, Arthur Kroker, Rita Raley and others) is scheduled on Saturday, February 27th at the Digital Worlds Institute to discuss the future developments of the field both on the theoretical and institutional levels. See the coference website for full details.
3/1-3/2/10
“Convergences and Conversions: The Merchant of Venice into the 21st Century.” The plenary address will be given by Janet Adelman (Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley), the author of Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice (Chicago UP, 2008). Mary Beth Mader (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis) will speak on the late Sarah Kofman’s essay “Conversions: The Merchant of Venice under the Sign of Saturn,” followed by a reading of a selection from the essay. The conference is sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida and made possible with funds from the Grass Chair and a Posen grant. For more information, contact Judith Page or Dragan Kujundzic <dragan@ufl.edu>.
3/25–3/27/10
"The Global South,” the Twelth Annual Marxist Reading Group Conference. The keynote speaker will be Hazel Carby (Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies & American Studies, as well as Professor of American Studies). Details TBA.
Summer 2009
5/19/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature.“Let the Story Speak: On the Importance of Sharing Stories with Young People,” Meredith Ann Pierce, Alachua County Librarian-Supervisor and Fantasy Fiction Writer. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
6/13/09
Jane Austen Society of North America will discuss Austen’s Lady Susan and In Defense of Mrs. Elton by Diana Birchall. 12:30-2:30 PM. Alachua County Library, Tower Road Branch . For more information, contact Amy Robinson <arobin@ufl.edu>.
6/16/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “Storytelling in the Content Areas,” Linda Martin, Library Media Specialist and 2009 Bechtel Fellow at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
8/18/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “In the Stacks: An Evening in the Baldwin Library,” Rita Smith, Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, and Ramona Caponegro, Events Coordinator for the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.