2009-2010 English Department Events

August 26, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #64
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

September 9, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #65
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

September 10, 2009

Students for Ethical Treatment of Theory (SETT)
Dr. Nicole Rizzuto will present from her current work, entitled "Toward An Ethics of Witnessing: Testimony and the Allegory of Trauma in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier," which will be followed by a discussion session. Contact Soumitra Ghosh to obtain an electronic copy of Dr. Rizzuto's work.
SETT has been, as some of you already know, a loosely organized body of graduate students who are keen on engaging with theory/philosophy--irrespective of the specificity of their discipline--in a serious fashion. To that end, SETT will organize a series of seminars where graduate students and all other members of the English Department will have the opportunity to participate in the ongoing, contemporary theoretical debates/discussions in various disciplines.
Location: 303 Morrill
Time: 6:45pm
Contact: Soumitra Ghosh

September 15, 2009

Public Lecture: "When Beauty Wasn't Good Enough: Photography and the Invention of Glamour."
Norris Scholar David Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina.
Location: 109 Bartlett Center for the Arts
Time: 6:50-8:30pm
Contact: Dr. Richard Frohock

September 23, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #66
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

September 24-26, 2009

First Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society
All Events at OSU-Tulsa
Conference hotel: Crowne Plaza, Tulsa
Contact: Dr. Robert Mayer | Department of English | OSU | Stillwater, OK | 74078

September 25, 2009

Lecture and Book Signing: Steve Waksman
Gender & Women’s Studies, in collaboration with American Studies, presents a public lecture & book signing by Steve Waksman.
Professor Waksman will present “Cherry Bomb: The Runaways and the Teenage Rock ‘n’ Roll Ideal.” Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of two books: Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard, 1999), and This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (University of California, 2009). The recipient of the 1998 Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize awarded by the American Studies Association, in November 2008, he was the keynote speaker at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's American Masters Conference honoring the legacy of Les Paul. Waksman is currently working on a history of live music in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present.
This event, which is free and open to the public, augments GWST 3713: Gender and Music.
For more about Gender & Women’s Studies, go to http://womensstudies.okstate.edu or contact Carol Mason.
Location: 106 Noble Research Center
Time: 4:00pm
Contact: Dr. Carol Mason, director of Gender and Women's Studies

October 2, 2009

A Magic Lantern/Nervous System Performance by Ken Jacobs
Location: 106 Noble Research Center
Time: 7:00pm
Contact: Dr. Brian Price

October 3, 2009

New video work by Ken Jacobs
Free and open to the public.
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 4:30
Contact: brian.price@okstate.edu

October 5, 2009

	Exhibit: 40 Years after Stonewall: The Gay Movement in America Panel Discussion with Jean-Nickolaus Tretter On the early morning of June 28, 1969, a riot broke out at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, the patrons fighting back after years of harassment and police raids on gay establishments. This exhibit features images from the Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (University of Minnesota) that celebrate the launching of the modern gay rights movement in the United States. In the evening of Monday October 5, a panel discussion of the exhibit will include Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, founder of the collection.
	Exhibit Location: Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room of Edmon Low Library Exhibit Time: Library Hours, Monday - Friday of this week.
	Discussion Location: French Lounge (270 Student Union) Discussion Time: 7:00 pm Contact: Dr. Carol Mason

October 6, 2009

Lecture by Pierre Lagayette, University of Paris IV (Sorbonne)
"From Voyageurs to Scholars: Three Centuries of French Interest in the American West"
Location: 313 Classroom Building
Time: 7:30pm
Contact: Dr. William Decker

October 7, 2009

Marilyn Chin Poetry Reading
Marilyn Chin's books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. She is the author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (W.W. Norton & Co., 2002), The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty (1994), and Dwarf Bamboo (1987) and will be reading from her new book of tales from Norton, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen.

Chin has won numerous awards for her poetry, including ones from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received a Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, as well as residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Lannan Residency, and the Djerassi Foundation.

Her work has been featured in a variety of anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Unsettling America, The Open Boat, and The Best American Poetry of l996. She was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS series The Language of Life.
Location: French Lounge (270 Student Union)
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Contact: Ai

October 13, 2009

Arts & Sciences Fall Convocation
The Dean will introduce new faculty members and make award presentations.
Location: Wes Watkins Center Exhibit Hall
Time: 3:00-5:00pm

October 14, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #67
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

October 23-24, 2009

The 2009 World Picture Conference on Style
Keynote speakers: Alexander Garcia Duttmann and Edward Branigan
Location and times: TBA
Contact: Dr. Brian Price

October 28, 2009

Reading: Alyson Hagy, fiction writer
Location: Student Union French Lounge (SU 270)
Time: 7:00pm
Contact: Dr. Jon Billman

October 29, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #68
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

November 2, 2009

Public Lecture: "Indigenous Literatures and Indigenous Technologies"
Chadwick Allen (Ph.D. University of Arizona) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University. His areas of interest are comparative Indigenous literary studies; American Indian and New Zealand Maori literatures and cultures; postcolonial literatures and theory; and frontier studies and the popular western. He has published articles on postcolonial theory, the discourse of treaties, Indigenous aesthetics, and the popular western figure The Lone Ranger. His book is entitled Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke University Press, 2002)
Location: Helmerich Browsing Room of Edmon Low Library
Time: 3:30pm
Contact: Dr. Lindsey Smith

November 3, 2009

Public Lecture: Donovin Sprague
Donovin Sprague, great, great, great grandson of Chief Hump and descendant of Chief Crazy Horse will visit OSU on November 3rd. He will screen a short film about Places that were special to Chief Hump and Chief Crazy Horse, then give a talk about preserving tribal history. Donovin is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux. He is currently the Director of Education at Crazy Horse Memorial and is an instructor at Black Hills State University and Oglala Lakota College. His books are part of the Images of America Series, published by Arcadia. Refreshments will be served at the talk.
This is sponsored by the English Department and by Professor Ai.
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 3:30pm (Book signing in S.U. Chapters at 2:30pm)
Contact: Professor Ai

November 11, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #69
Liz Tabish's The Angle (2009)
The Angle is a feature length neo-noir written and directed by recent Screen Studies graduate Liz Tabish.
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

November 12, 2009

CWA Reading: Toni Graham
Location: Student Union French Lounge (270 S.U.)
Time: 7:00pm
Contact: James Brubaker (CWA Secretary)

November 18, 2009

CRAS Film Society -- Meeting #70
Location: 305 Morrill Hall
Time: 7pm
Contact: Dr. Hugh Manon

January 27, 2010

Reading: Mary Karr, poet
Location: TBA
Time: TBA
Contact: The Poet Ai

February 13 & 14, 2010

The Vagina Monologues
Presented by N.O.W, the Women's Resource Center, and the Student Union Activities Board.
Location: Student Union Little Theater
Time: 7:00pm on Saturday the 13th, 4pm on Sunday the 14th
Contact: Elkie Burnside

March 23, 2010

Poetry Reading: Richard Lyons
Richard Lyons' award-winning collections include These Modern Nights, Hour of the Cardinal, and Fleur Carnivore. He is a professor at Mississippi State University.
Location & Time: TBA
Contact: Lisa Lewis

April 1, 2010

Lecture: David Clark, "Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy"
This talk concerns the role and purpose of the university and the intellectual during a time of war. Beginning with a meditation on what it was like for the foremost philosopher of the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, to think, write, and teach on the brink of what Kant himself calls “wars of extermination,” Dr. Clark will then turn to the question of what it means for the thoughtful and caring teacher to face the dire possibility that there is something about modern mankind that remains uneducable. The talk will examine the ways that we modern educators of the Arts and Humanities struggle to make our subjects resonate during a time when the nations of the world seem intent on violence.
Location & Time: TBA
Contact: Dr. Martin Wallen

April 6, 2010

Reading: Antonya Nelson
Location: TBA
Time: 7:00pm
Contact: Jon Billman

April 9, 2010

Lecture: Dr. Victoria E. Johnson
Location & Time: TBA
Contact: Dr. Meghan Sutherland

April 23, 2010

Lecture: Professor David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Kazanjian lecture is sponsored by the English Department and the Dean's Arts and Science Lecture Series.
Location & Time: TBA
Contact: Dr. Nicole Rizzuto

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