Events

Joseph Linzmeier Visiting Scholar Lecture

Joseph Linzmeier
Monday, January 23, 2012, 4:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall

Joseph Linzmeier, "Doris Lessing: Crisis in the Children of Violence series and the making of The Golden Notebook"

Linguistics Lunch Hour with Dr. Anja Wanner

Dr. Anja Wanner
Friday, February 10, 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM
6191 Helen C. White Hall

Please join us for our second Linguistics Lunch Hour of the year! Dr. Anja Wanner will be presenting: “Is Getting Fired Different from Being Fired? A Re-consideration of the Get-Passive in English."

Sleeping at Walden Pond: Thoreau, Abnormal Temporality, and the Modern Body - A talk by Benjamin Reiss (Emory)

Benjamin Reiss of Emory University
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 4:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall

This talk explores how sleep came to be a problem in need of micro-management, medical attention, and pervasive worry. It braids together literary, medical, religious, and social history from the Enlightenment to the present.

Andrew Ross, "Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City"

Andrew Ross, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 4:00 PM
106 Pyle Center

Reading by poet Mark Doty presented by the UW Program in Creative Writing

Mark Doty
Friday, March 16, 2012, 7:30pm – 9pm
Overture Center, Promenade Hall

Please join us for a reading by this National Book Award for Poetry winner at the Overture Center's Promenade Hall.

Poetry & Fiction by Laura Eve Engel and Emily Ruskovich

Laura Eve Engel and Emily Ruskovich
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30pm – 9pm
6191 Helen C. White Hall

Join us for the second 2012 installment of our series featuring the nationally acclaimed Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellows, this time featuring Laura Eve Engel and Emily Ruskovich

Peter Bovenmyer and Nancy Simpson Younger, “Redemptive Operations: Configuring Surgery and Salvation in BL MS Sloane 1977” and "Virtues, Words, and Deeds: Confronting the Vulnerable Other in Lyly's Endymion"

Peter Bovenmyer and Nancy Simpson Younger
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall

Third Nellie Y. McKay Lecture: Thadious M. Davis, "Chaining:Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past"

Thadious Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30 pm
L160 Chazen

Screening of "Rite of Spring"

Monday, March 26, 2012, 12:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall

In preparation for Professor Albright's visit, the Modernisms and Modernities Colloquium is thrilled to present a lunchtime screening of a 1987 production of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (1913).

Professor Daniel Albright (Harvard University), "The Rite of Spring: The Future as the Deep Past"

Prof. Daniel Albright (Harvard University)
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 4:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall

FELIX: A Series of New Writing Presents Rebecca Wolff and Laura Sims

Rebecca Wolff and Laura Sims
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 7:00 PM
Memorial Library, Room 126

Please join us for a poetry reading by Rebecca Wolff and Laura Sims

Gods and Monsters: Why Literature Matters in Movies, Business, and Life

Steve Jarchow
Thursday, April 26, 2012, movie begins at 5:15 p.m. free pizza and conversation at 7:15 p.m.
The Red Gym

The English Department invites you to watch a movie and talk to the producer, Steve Jarchow, a UW alumnus, who wants you to know that an English major is really important! Also, free pizza!

Linguistic Lunch Hour with Dr. Richard Young

Dr. Richard Young
Friday, April 27, 2012, 1:00 PM
6191 Helen C. White Hall

English Department Faculty Dr. Richard Young will give a talk entitled, "Practice, Theory, and Lanuage Learning."

Linguistic Lunch Hour with Erin McKean

Erin McKean
Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 1:00 PM
6191 Helen C. White Hall

Ms. McKean’s talk entitled, "Building a Massively Multiplayer Online Dictionary," will be about creating the online dictionary Wordnik.

DARE and American Dictionaries: A mini-conference celebrating the Dictionary of American Regional English at the Pyle Center

Simon Winchester, Michael Adams, and Erin McKean
Thursday, May 03, 2012, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center

Please join us for a great mini-conference on dictionaries at the Pyle Center!

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Events

Joseph Linzmeier Visiting Scholar Lecture

Linguistics Lunch Hour with Dr. Anja Wanner

Sleeping at Walden Pond: Thoreau, Abnormal Temporality, and the Modern Body - A talk by Benjamin Reiss (Emory)

Andrew Ross, "Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City"

Reading by poet Mark Doty presented by the UW Program in Creative Writing

Poetry & Fiction by Laura Eve Engel and Emily Ruskovich

Peter Bovenmyer and Nancy Simpson Younger, “Redemptive Operations: Configuring Surgery and Salvation in BL MS Sloane 1977” and "Virtues, Words, and Deeds: Confronting the Vulnerable Other in Lyly's Endymion"

Third Nellie Y. McKay Lecture: Thadious M. Davis, "Chaining:Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past"

Screening of "Rite of Spring"

Professor Daniel Albright (Harvard University), "The Rite of Spring: The Future as the Deep Past"

FELIX: A Series of New Writing Presents Rebecca Wolff and Laura Sims

Gods and Monsters: Why Literature Matters in Movies, Business, and Life

Linguistic Lunch Hour with Dr. Richard Young

Linguistic Lunch Hour with Erin McKean

DARE and American Dictionaries: A mini-conference celebrating the Dictionary of American Regional English at the Pyle Center

English Department Banquet and Awards Ceremony

"Literalness, or On Restricting Free Speech", a talk by Dieter Stein

12 Poets, 5 minutes each!

The Annual Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

Bridge Poetry Series

Monsters of Poetry

Talk by Professor Brantley Bryant (English, Sonoma State) for Medieval Studies/English

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