2008-2009 Calendar

July 24

Regular Summer Session ends

August 18

Fall Semester begins

September 11

An Evening with Phil Solomon
Time: 5:00pm
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
For more information: brian.price@okstate.edu

September 25-26

Visit by Madeline Caviness, Mary Richardson Emeritus Professor, Medieval Art and Architecture, Stained Glass, and Gender and Women's Studies at Tufts University, Department of Art & Art History. On Sept. 25 there will be an evening lecture: "Late Medieval German Law Books that Kept Women and Jews in their Place." The next morning, Sept. 26, there will be an 11 a.m. lecture: "International collaboration in humanistic studies: Projects and problems in the 21st century."
Details TBA.

October 7

Arts and Sciences Convocation

October 24-25

World Picture Conference
Keynote Speakers: Ernesto Laclau (10/24) and Lauren Berlant (10/25).
Both talks will take place from 5:00-6:30pm in 106 Noble Research Center.
For more information, see the World Picture Journal site or contact Brian Price or Meghan Sutherland.

January 29, 2009

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3 Films by Martin Arnold
piéce touché (1989); passage à l’acte (1993); and Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
"Arnold has constructed a cinema machine, an apparatus that writes and rewrites memories on the surfaces of film" -- Akira M. Lippit
Time: 8:00pm
Location: 207 Noble Research Center

February 11, 2009

Woods Lecture by Nicholas Dames, Theodore H. Kahan Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, "The Chapter: a History of Segmented Life, 1200-1900."
Dr. Dames is the Theodore H. Kahan Professor of the Humanities in the English Department of Columbia University. Dames has published two books on the nineteenth-century British novel (both from Oxford UP), nineteenth-century theories of reading, and the history of physiology and emotion. He will read from his current work, "The Chapter: A History of Segmented Life, 1200-1900." This lecture is cosponsored by English and History, and is funded by grants from the Woods and the Norris Foundation.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Noble Research Center 108
Organizer: Linda M. Austin

February 19, 2009

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Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Across America
"I'm interested in black-comic social critique, and also in graphic montage, rhythm, and acceleration; but above it all, I'm interested in the mobilization and manipulation and manic play with old and new meanings, as 'found' footage is recontextualized with newly-produced sound and imagery." -- Craig Baldwin
Time: 8:00pm
Location: 207 Noble Research Center

February 24, 2009

Black History Month lecture by Paula J. Giddings, the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor in Afro-American Studies at Smith College.
A former book editor and journalist, Giddings has written extensively on political issues in both the popular press and scholarly journals. Her books include the groundbreaking When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America and In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. In 2008 she published Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, which explores the contributions of the legendary turn-of-the-twentieth century black woman journalist, Ida B. Wells. Co-sponsored by Gender and Women’s Studies and the Center for Africana Studies. Funded by the Social Sciences Lecture Series, Political Science, Institutional Diversity, and the Provost.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Student Union Little Theater
Contact: contact Jen Macken, Coordinator of Women's Programs, 405.744.2127

February 26, 2009

Todd McGowan's Norris Lecture: "The Political Cut: Contemporary Theory and the Necessity of Rupture"
Todd McGowan teaches courses in film theory, history, and genre at the University of Vermont. His areas of interest include Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. His publications include: The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia Press, 2006), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (SUNY Press, 2006), Lacan and Contemporary Film (Other Press, 2004), The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment (SUNY Press, 2003). He is currently at work on a book on politics and psychoanalysis.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Noble Research Center, Room 207
Organizer: Hugh Manon

March 4, 2009

EGSA Spring Colloquium
English Department graduate students will make presentations to compete for EGSA scholarships. Presentations will be 20 minutes, with a 10 minute Q&A session at the end.
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-2:30 Presentations
2:30-3:00 Presenters' Reception
3:00-4:00 "Attitudes: What your brain knows about language – that you may not," Dr. Dennis Preston, guest lecturer.
4:00-4:15 Scholarship Awards

March 5, 2009

Poetry Reading by Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly, the author of ten books of poetry, is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhships, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Plumly holds the Distinguished University Professorship at the University of Maryland.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Edmon Low Library Browsing Room

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Reproducing Video: A Genealogy of Feminist Media
Technology Transformation: Wonder Woman -and- Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry (Dara Birnbaum, both 1979)
(Entlastungen) Piplottis Fehler (Piplotti Rist, 1988)
I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much (Piplotti Rist, 1986)
She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh, 2001)
16 Minutes Lost (Phyllis Baldino, 2000)
Time: 8:00pm
Location: 305 Morrill Hall

March 6, 2009

Lecture by Stanley Plumly
Plumly will speak about his book, Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W.W. Norton & Co. 2008).
Time: 11:00am
Location: Student Union French Lounge (Room 270).

March 10,2009

Feminist Theory Discussion Group
In preparation for the Mar 26 visit from Heather Love, we will read and discuss “The End of Friendship: Willa Cather’s Sad Kindred” from Feeling Backward. The chapter’s epigraph: “We are first of all, as friends, the friends of solitude, and we are calling on you to share what cannot be shared.” – Jacques Derrida.
Time: 5:00pm
Contact Carol Mason for details.

March 26, 2009

“Gyn/Apology” lecture by Heather Love, the M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities at University of Pennsylvania. Love’s areas of interest include gender studies, the literature and culture of modernity, film, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity studies, and critical theory. Her book, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard UP, 2007), rethinks the foundations of contemporary queer historiography by exploring dark or negative “structures of feeling” in several late-nineteenth and twentieth-century literary texts. “Gyn/Apology” will examine Sarah Orne Jewett’s fiction in the genealogical contexts of archival material (including Jewett’s letters) and more general reflections on the history of feminist/lesbian/queer criticism.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Bartlett Center 109

Additional events are being planned. If you want to be involved in Gender and Women's Studies, contact Carol Mason

April 2, 2009

Charles Simic, poetry reading
Charles Simic published his first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, in 1967. Since then he has published more than sixty books in the U.S. and abroad, twenty titles of his own poetry among them, including That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008), My Noiseless Entourage (2005); Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems (2003); Night Picnic (2001); The Book of Gods and Devils (2000); and Jackstraws (1999), which was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Simic has also published numerous translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry, and is the author of several books of essays, including Orphan Factory. He has edited several anthologies, including an edition of The Best American Poetry in 1992.

Simic was chosen to receive the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 1998, and elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000. He has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995.Most recently, he was the recipient of the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets. Simic is Emeritus Professor of the University of New Hampshire where he has taught since 1973.

Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 2007. About the appointment, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, "The range of Charles Simic's imagination is evident in his stunning and unusual imagery. He handles language with the skill of a master craftsman, yet his poems are easily accessible, often meditative and surprising. He has given us a rich body of highly organized poetry with shades of darkness and flashes of ironic humor."

"I am especially touched and honored to be selected because I am an immigrant boy who didn't speak English until I was 15," responded Simic after being named Poet Laureate.

Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Stillwater Public Library Reception Room
Organizer: Ai

April 10

EGSA Spring Mixer - Exciting details TBA.

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Films by and And Evening With Mary Beth Reed
Mary Beth Reed is an important filmmaker in the American Avant-Garde. Reed will screen and speak about her work.
Floating Under a Honey Tree (1999)
Garden Path (with Stan Brakhage, 2001)
Jakob (1998)
Montessori Sword Fight (2002)
Moon Streams (2000)
Sand Castle (2000)
Time: 4:00pm (note time change to accommodate EGSA Spring Mixer)
Location: 108 Noble Research Center
Contact: Dr. Brian Price

April 23, 2009

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Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye, Molly (2005) by Ken Jacobs
Location: 305 Morrill
Time: 8:00pm

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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