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Fall Events Announced

Published: 25 August 2011

Visiting Speakers Schedule for Fall 2011

Sept. 20, 5pm, ARTS 160: Gary Geddes, author, discussing his new book:

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(creative writing, poetry, African literature, postcolonial theory)

Nov. 16, 4pm, ARTS 145: , Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University

“Acting in Ruins: One Late Capitalist and His Later Capitalist Double”

(drama and theatre, performance studies, reenactment in performance, cultural studies)

Nov. 17, 12:30 pm, LEA 927: , Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University (co-sponsored by IGSF)

“So You Think You Can Dance Straight? Same-Sex Ballroom and Reality Television“

(queer theory, drama and theatre, performance studies, cultural studies, gender studies, media theory)

Nov. 21, 4:30 pm, ARTS 145: John Jacob Spector Lecture: , English and American Studies, Yale University

"Bodies at War: Baghdad, Dresden, New York City”

(world literature, American literature, critical theory)

Related Fall Events:

Sept. 22, 6pm, Goethe Institute (418 Sherbrooke St. E) , Communications Studies, Baruch College, CUNY

Keynote Speaker, (presented by the Project on European Cinema, co-sponsored by the Department of English): Tableau Mort: Capital Punishment, Spectacle, and Cinema”

(film studies, cultural studies)

Sept. 27, 5:30pm, Moyse Hall: “The Public Life of Arts and Ideas”, presented by IPLAI, with Kent Stetson, Margie Gillis, Darin Barney and Desmond Manderson, moderated by Paul Yachnin.

(fine arts, dance, drama and theatre, law, humanities)

Oct. 11 (time, place and title TBA), , English, University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by IGSF, Media@69Ƶ and AHCS.

(queer theory, affect theory, disability studies)

Nov. 4, 3pm (tentatively), Thompson House: , American Studies, University of Minnesota

Keynote speaker, biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Department of English), “The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference”

(queer theory, critical race studies, gender studies, cultural studies)

Nov. 4, 3 pm (tentatively), Thompson House: , English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba.

Keynote speaker, biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Department of English), Title TBA

(cultural studies, globalization, Canadian Studies)

Fall Shakespeare Team events: (seminar room, 2nd floor, 3475 Peel St.)

Sept. 21 7PM Galen Strawson, “Against Narrativity”

Oct. 25 5PM (in Arts West 25): Patrick Neilson, workshop on All’s Well That Ends Well

Nov. 15 5pm Mustapha Fahmi, TBA

Coming Up in Winter 2012 (more info to come)

Jan. 25 PhD Colloquium

Jan. 31 Reynolds Visiting Artist Erin Mouré (workshops with Mouré will be held on Feb. 3 and 4)

Feb. 28 Faculty Colloquium

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