We are pleased to announce our schedule of speakers and events for Winter 2015.  We will meet on alternating Mondays from noon-1:20pm.  All workshops will be held in Wieboldt Hall 130, but please note alternate locations for special events.  Graduate student papers will be distributed the week before their scheduled week.

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January 12 (2nd week): Jean-Thomas Tremblay (English), “Feminist Fiction, Lacking Air: Forms of Historical Mediation in 1970s U.S. Realism.” Refreshments will be served, but bring your own lunch. 

January 26 (4th week): Korey Garibaldi (History), “The Fall of Integration in American Culture, 1958-1972.” Refreshments will be served, but bring your own lunch. 

February 10 (6th week): Film screening — We will screen the two films discussed in the papers to be workshopped the following week: Cloud Atlas (2012, dir. Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski) and Western Deep (2002, Steve McQueen).  Prof. Berthold Hoeckner (Music) will provide a brief introduction.  Special day, time, and location: Tuesday, February 10, 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405. Dinner (pizza) will be served.

February 16 (7th week): Chaz Lee (Music), “Love, in the Classical Style,” and Luke Fidler (Art History), “Steve McQueen’s Poetics of Obscurity.” Refreshments will be served, but bring your own lunch. 

March 2 (9th week): Jake Smith (History), “‘Strangers in a Dead World’: Intimacy, Revolution, and Translocal Aesthetics, 1980-1984.” Refreshments will be served, but bring your own lunch.