BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Graduate English Association - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Graduate English Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Graduate English Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T153000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20220913T222956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220913T222956Z UID:2087-1665070200-1665070200@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Williams DESCRIPTION:Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States\, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten\, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While he acknowledges that they have been demeaned\, he assures that they have not been diminished. Williams confesses that African Americans have been done harm\, but he confirms that they have not become disheartened. Close readings of classic slave narratives\, along with some neo-slave narratives—including The Conjure Woman (1899)\, Kindred (1979)\, Dessa Rose (1986)\, and The Good Lord Bird (2013)—furnish proof that African Americans have preserved their dignity and elevated their status through ingenious applications of improvisation. Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts establishes as well that a dim view of African Americans\, propagated by black bondage\, bears a resemblance to sexual discrimination\, which prompts female targets of its gaze to practice dissembling. Reception to follow. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/book-talk-smooth-operating-and-other-social-acts-by-roland-williams/ LOCATION:Mazur 821 CATEGORIES:English Department END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T110000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20220309T135509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T135509Z UID:2007-1648033200-1648033200@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Tania Islam's Doctoral Defense: "Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction" DESCRIPTION:All graduate students and faculty are encouraged to join us for Tania Islam’s doctoral defense\, “Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction\,” on Wednesday\, 3/23 @ 11 AM via Zoom. \nDissertation Committee: Miles Orvell\, Daniel O’Hara (Emeritus)\, and James Salazar \nAbstract:\nMy dissertation titled “Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction” addresses the use of narrative by four ethnic American women authors\, namely Dina Nayeri\, Edwidge Danticat\, Julia Alvarez\, and Amy Tan (immigrants or second-generation citizens)\, who write about personal tragedies and trauma to address the issue of omission and silence in historical records. \nI argue that these literary works are an admixture of narrative and history that function as a mode of storytelling that allows readers to bear witness to events of social and political importance. Transnational and literary theorists have often prioritized the émigré status of these women authors to argue that they have been able to become successful spokespersons for their people because of their journey away from their homeland. However\, my dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the opposite—these women authors may refashion themselves as hybridized citizens\, but they do not sever ties with their homelands\, nor do they speak for the entirety of their respective ethnic communities. On the contrary\, through their fictions\, these authors focus on the importance of individualistic and personal storytelling to counter the silencing effects produced through the unidimensional processes of History that do not incorporate a multitude of voices and points of opinion. I argue that the use of narrative and storytelling by these four ethnic American women authors redress such omissions. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/tania-islams-doctoral-defense-things-left-unsaid-historical-silences-and-multiethnic-womens-fiction/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:English Department END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T150000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20211119T135357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T140728Z UID:1452-1645110000-1645110000@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Forum DESCRIPTION:The Graduate Forum will continue in the Spring with a Zoom event on Feb. 17\, featuring two more of our advanced doctoral students and moderated by Ryan Omizo. \n\nScott Thompson: “The Social Ecology of Character: Reading Popular Psychology and Determinism in the Victorian Sensation Novel”\nMicah Savaglio: “Teaching Disability and Access: Unflattening Multimodal Composition”\n\nSee this flyer for more information: 2-17-22 GRADUATE ENGLISH FORUM SERIES \nZoom link TBA. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/graduate-forum/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:English Department END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T163000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20211101T200903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T201026Z UID:1359-1637247600-1637253000@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Fall 2021 Graduate English Forum DESCRIPTION:992441The first Graduate English Forum will be held on November 18th via Zoom\, featuring PhD candidates Tania Islam and Vanessa Loh\, who will describe their intriguing work. Faculty response and Q&A will follow. All Graduate Students are expected to attend. Click here for more details. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/graduate-english-forum/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:English Department END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T130000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20180204T151020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180204T151102Z UID:1062-1518609600-1518613200@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Talk - "Water\, Drought\, and Death: ​An Environmental Approach to American Fiction" DESCRIPTION:DATE:  FEB. 14\nTIME:  12:00 to 1:00 PM\nPLACE:  8th Floor Lounge\, Anderson\nLucas Sheaffer (doctoral student in English)  will talk about his research  in environmental criticism\, specifically an examination of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s far-reaching regional damming projects during the mid-20th century. The talk will open with a brief summary of the project’s scope and central questions before closely examining the turbulent intersection of heritage\, guilt\, water\, drought\, and graves in Madison Jones’ A Buried Land.  \n\n\n\n​The dissertation\, which is nearly complete\, is called Damming the American Imagination and encompasses chapters on Robert Penn Warren and David Lilienthal.​ URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/talk-water-drought-and-death-%e2%80%8ban-environmental-approach-to-american-fiction/ LOCATION:Anderson Hall 821 (Women’s Studies Lounge) CATEGORIES:English Department,GEA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180201T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180201T113000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20180130T182815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T183050Z UID:1044-1517481000-1517484600@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Digital Projects in the Humanities Workshop DESCRIPTION:THIS THURSDAY 2/1 10:30-11:30am \nPLACE: Women’s Studies Lounge\, Room 821 Anderson Hall \nAlex Wermer-Colan\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Temple University Digital Scholarship Center\, will present an informal introduction to digital projects in the Humanities\, designed especially for English graduate students. \nHe’ll talk about the shifting role of the digital humanities in universities\, partly based on his own experience. He’ll also address the relevance of digital humanities to job searches\, jobs in the alt-ac sector\, etc. \nThis is a great opportunity to find out more about how digital humanities methods might affect your own work and the future of the humanities more generally. \nAlex\, a recent Ph.D. from CUNY comes with a traditional English degree and with great experience as well in a range of digital projects. As some of you know\, he’s leading several workshops this semester at Paley Library. \nBring your questions\, or simply your curiosity about this new field. \nWe hope to bring Alex back for two more workshops for English graduate students during the course of the semester. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/digital-projects-in-the-humanities-workshop/ CATEGORIES:English Department,GEA Events,Temple Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/files/2018/01/Adobe-Spark-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140923T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140923T120000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20140920T182357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140920T182528Z UID:955-1411470000-1411473600@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week DESCRIPTION:The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will have its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday\, September 23rd\, from 11:00am – 12:00pm in Anderson 1006. The reading for the first meeting\, Susan Buck-Morss’ “Democracy: An Unfinished Project”\, has been distributed via the graduate student listserv. New and returning members are welcome to join the group for what is sure to be an engaging semester of thinking and discussion. Contact Colleen Kropp for more information.\n“Democracy: An Unfinished Project” abstract: \nThis essay criticizes Ahmet Davutoğlu’s proposal that Islamic civilization complete the “unfinished project of modernity” (Jürgen Habermas)\, by challenging the concept of civilization itself. As scholars in multiple disciplines have demonstrated\, civilizations are hybrid constructions that cannot be contained within a uniform conceptual frame\, such as Islamic “authenticity.” The past is shared\, and the present is as well. The Arab Spring demonstrates that modernity confronts political actors with similar problems\, whatever their background. The essay addresses successive paradoxes within the unfinished project of democracy: the contradiction between free markets (capitalist inequality) and free societies (political equality)\, the hierarchical relationship between the people and their leaders (Jacques Ranciére’s Ignorant Schoolmaster is discussed)\, and the lack of democracy between nations within the present world order. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/fall-2014-theory-reading-group/ LOCATION:Anderson 1006\, Temple University\, Philadelphia CATEGORIES:English Department END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T170000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20140311T151649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140331T014815Z UID:878-1397044800-1397062800@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Student Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/grad-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Anderson Hall 1221 CATEGORIES:English Department,GEA Events ORGANIZER;CN="Temple Graduate English Association":MAILTO:TempleGEA@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T154500 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20131118T183206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131118T183206Z UID:783-1385045100-1385048700@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group DESCRIPTION:The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will meet at a new date and time this week to accommodate a wider audience that has expressed interest in. The group will continue to discuss Derrida this week\, turning to his seminal essay “Différance.” If you cannot make this time or would like to make suggestions about where the theory reading group might go next semester\, please contact Daniel Nutters. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/student-faculty-theory-reading-group-2/ LOCATION:Anderson 1006\, 1114 Pollett Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Department,GEA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20131113T183724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131113T183724Z UID:768-1384448400-1384455600@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Poets & Writers Series - Anthony Wallace DESCRIPTION: URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/poets-writers-series-anthony-wallace/ LOCATION:Women’s Studies Lounge\, 8th Fl.\, Anderson Hall\, 1114 W. Berks St.\, Philadelphia CATEGORIES:English Department ORGANIZER;CN="Temple University Poets &%3B Writers Series":MAILTO:creatwrt@temple.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20131015T144204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131015T144554Z UID:675-1382029200-1382036400@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Temple Creative Writing's Poets & Writers Series: National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon DESCRIPTION: URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/temple-creative-writings-poets-writers-series-national-book-award-winner-jaimy-gordon/ LOCATION:Women’s Studies Lounge\, 8th Fl. Anderson Hall\, 1114 West Berks St. CATEGORIES:English Department,Temple Events ORGANIZER;CN="Temple University Poets &%3B Writers Series":MAILTO: creatwrt@temple.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130325T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130325T170000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20130220T142437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130324T164745Z UID:284-1364223600-1364230800@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Revisionary Humanities And The Sufferings Of History: Panel Discussion & Colloquium Celebrating Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence DESCRIPTION:A Panel Discussion and Colloquium To Celebrate The Fortieth Anniversary Of Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973) Which First Shows How Imaginative Revisionism (Re-) Shapes The Creative Norm of Humanity \nThe Event Will Be Attended By A Special Guest\, Henry Carrigan (Assistant Director and Senior Acquisitions Editor of Northwestern University Press) And The Festivities Will Be Recorded So That Prof. Bloom May Respond. Sponsored by The Temple University English Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Group\, Student Coordinators: Colleen Kropp\, Daniel Nutters\, and Christopher Winkler;  Faculty Coordinators: Dan O’Hara and Alan Singer. Hosted by Joyce A. Joyce (Chair\, Department of English\, Temple University) \nSee event flier for schedule of events: \nRevisionary Humanities and the Sufferings of History URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/revisionary-humanities-and-the-sufferings-of-history-panel-discussion-colloquium-celebrating-harold-blooms-the-anxiety-of-influence/ LOCATION:CHAT (Center for the Humanities @ Temple)\, Gladfelter Hall\, 10th Floor\, Temple University\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:English Department END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T213000 DTSTAMP:20260718T075742 CREATED:20130313T183248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130324T164756Z UID:411-1363896000-1363901400@sites.temple.edu SUMMARY:Temple University Poets & Writers Series: Rae Armantrout DESCRIPTION:The Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program’s Poets & Writers series presents a reading by Rae Armantrout. Rae Armantrout’s most recent book of poems\, Money Shot\, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2011. Versed (Wesleyan\, 2009) received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She received an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California\, San Diego. A new collection\, Just Saying\, is forthcoming from Wesleyan in 2013. \nFor more information see event flier. URL:https://sites.temple.edu/gradenglish/event/temple-university-poets-writers-series-rae-armantrout/ LOCATION:Temple University Center City\, 1515 Market St. - Room 222\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:English Department ORGANIZER;CN="Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program":MAILTO:creatwrt@temple.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR