Literature Department Calendar

 
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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Friday
      • 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
      • Graduate Speaker Series 2012: Tanya Agathocleous
      • Ward Circle 2

      • Tanya Agathocleous, CUNY:
        Choosing between Country and Friend:
        Modernism, Syncretism and Disaffection in the Imperial Encounter

        Ideals of East-West syncretism abound in a range of early twentieth-century works, from the theosophical lectures of Annie Besant to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. The cultural union of East and West was imagined as a solution to global political conflict and often ...more

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        Host: Literature Department

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AFTER NOVEMBER 16

      • Fri 11/30/12
        5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
      • Graduate Speaker Series 2012: Vincent Carretta
      • Ward Circle 2

      • Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland:
        Strangers in Strange Lands: Figures in the Eighteenth-Century African Diaspora

        This talk will focus in particular on William Ansah Sessarakoo (1720?-1770), who traveled first (involuntarily) from Africa to the West Indies, where he was redeemed from slavery by the Royal African Company, then sent to England, where he was treated as a celebrity before ...more

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        Host: Literature Department

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      • Wed 12/05/12
        11:00 am – 1:00 pm
      • College Writing Council
      • McDowell Formal Lounge

      • This is a council meeting for the College Writing faculty.

        Type: Information Session
        Host: Literature Department

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      • Sat 12/08/12
        10:00 am – noon
      • TRT
      • Mary Graydon Center 200 (Gianni Lounge)

      • College Writing Program TRT.

        Type: Meeting
        Host: Literature Department

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      • Wed 01/16/13
        11:00 am – 1:00 pm
      • College Writing Council
      • Butler Board Room

      • This is a council meeting for the College Writing faculty.

        Type: Information Session
        Host: Literature Department

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      • Wed 01/23/13
        8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
      • Visiting Writers Series: Faculty Benefit Reading
      • Off Campus Location

      • The Department of Literature’s Creative Writing Program presents the annual Faculty Benefit Reading featuring: Kyle Dargan, Danielle Evans, Stephanie Grant, Andrew Holloran, David Keplinger, Elise Levine, Rachel Snyder on Wednesday, January 23, 7:30 p.m.
        at 826DC (3233 14th ST, NW). $5 donation suggested, proceeds support 826DC.

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        Host: Literature Department

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