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University at Buffalo Department of English October, 2006
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University at Buffalo Department of English October, 2006
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Oliver Feltham
Tuesday, October 3, 20006
“On Changing Appearances in Lacan and Badiou”
Center for the Study of Psychoananlysis & Culture
2:30 p.m………………Clemens 830
followed by
Dominick Hoens (Gent, Belgium)
“En-je, enjeu, enjoy. Notes on D'un Autre à l'autre”
Buffalo Film Seminars
Tuesday, October 3……………7:00 p.m.
Satyajit Ray APARAJITO/THE UNVANQUISHED 1956
Arthur Riss (Salem State)
Friday, October 6, 2006
Graduate Americanist Group
“Becoming Human: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Making of New Citizens”
4:30 p.m……………..Clemens 436
Buffalo Film Series
Tuesday, October 10……………..7:00 p.m.
Jean-Pierre Melville LE SAMOURAI 1967
Donald Pease (Dartmouth)
Wednesday October 11, 2006
“Experience, Anti-Slavery and the Crisis of Emersonianism”
1:30 p.m……..Clemens 436
Stacy Hubbard
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
English IREWG Recipient of 2005-06 Gender Inst. Research Award
“Deadlier than the Male”: Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Politics of Sympathy
4:00 p.m………………………Clemens 412
Gender Week October 9 – 15
(see genderbuffalo.org for complete schedule)
Sally Fiedler & Ann Goldsmith
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Poetry Reading
7:30 p.m……Hallwalls ……341 Delaware Ave.
On Words: A Symposium on the life and Work of Robert Creeley
Thursday, October 12 – 14, 2006
Poetics Plus
See details on back page
Buffalo Film Series
Tuesday, October 17…………7:00 p.m.
Roman Polanski CHINATOWN 1974
Mark Shechner
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
English Faculty Seminar
“Literature without History”
11:00 a.m…….Clemens 436
Ariella Azoulay (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Center for the Study of Psychoananlysis & Culture
“Being Addressed by a Photograph: The Ethics of the Spectator”
4:00 p.m…….Clemens 830
Buffalo Film Seminars
Tuesday, October 24……………….7:00 p.m.
Robert Altman M*A*S*H 1970
Mary Ann Caws (CUNY)
Tuesday, October 24-26, 2006
Poetics Plus
“Between Dada and Surrealism”
4:00 p.m…….Clemens 438
Richard Rambuss (Emory Univ.)
Monday, October 30, 2006
Early Modern Reading Group
“Deep Purple”
4:00 p.m……..Clemens 830
Buffalo Film Series
Tuesday, October 31…………..7:00 p.m.
Frez Zinnenmann THE DAY OF THE JACKAL 1973
BOOK FAIR
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Clemens Third Floor Lobby
Faculty activity
During the summer months, Joan Copjec gave a lecture on “Sex and Difference” at the Buenos Aires Book Fair on the occasion of the publication of Spanish translations of two of her books (May); conducted a seminar on “Lacan and the Visual” and gave a lecture on the films of Abbas Kiarostami in the Department of Visual Arts at UC, San Diego (June); and was a plenary speaker at the 4th International Conference on the Humanities in Carthage, Tunisia (July). She also joined the editorial board of the newly formed on-line journal ironically (?) titled, The International Journal of Zizek Studies.
Jerold Frakes received a NEH Fellowship to participate in the Seminar “Shaping Civic Space in a Renaissance City: Venice, 1300-1600,” in Venice, 12 June-14 July 2006.
A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson, by Thomas Gardner (interviews with Marilynne Robinson, Charles Wright, Susan Howe, and Jorie Graham) was published this fall. Oxford University Press.
Susan Muchshima Moynihan, Assistant Professor of English, presented a paper, "Writing the 'Return' to Vietnam: Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala" for the "Ethnic Life Writing and Histories" conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas. The conference was held May 18-21, 2006, and was hosted by the
University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
On September 1, David Schmid appeared on Channel 7's PM Buffalo with Linda Pellegrino to discuss the reasons for the American public's fascination with criminals, including John Mark Karr and Bucky Philips.
Howard Wolf attended the 12th Biennial Hemingway Conference “Hemingway in Andalusia” in Malaga and Ronda (Spain) at the end of June, 2006. He presented a paper on “Imitating Hemingway at Mid-Century.”
Debra Segura published "Championing this Nature `So Rife with Life': Ecological Consciousness in Walden” in AUMLA (Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association) 102 (Nov. 2004): 105-25, and “A Quartet A Sleeper or A Roving Nightclubber: A Legacy of Early English Household Theater," in a Special Double Issue on World Theater Today, Theatron 3.1-2 (Fall 2004-Spring 2005): 5-18.
Christopher Leise presented a paper called "Presto Change-o! Tryone Slothrop's English Again!” in a Thomas Pynchon conference in Spain this past summer. The conference was called "International Pynchon Week" and held at the University of Granada in Granada, Spain from June 13-17, 2006.
Luke Niiler, who received his Ph.D. in 1995, reports that he is currently an Associate Professor of English and Writing Center Director at the University of Texas (Tyler).
Linda Russo’s book of poetry, MIRTH,
is forthcoming from Chax Press in December. She currently teaches at the University of Oklahoma.
Sasha Steensen and Gordon Hadfield had a little girl: Phoebe Steensen Hadfield, born on August 28th: 7 lbs. 7oz.
In July, 2006, Arthur Efron attended the International Hardy Conference and Festival in Dorchester, England. and gave a paper entitled “How Can We Experience Tess of the d’Urbervilles ?” Art’s book Experiencing Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Deweyan Account. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2005) has had several reviews, including in the most recent issue of Journal of Literary Criticism, located in Allahabad, India.
Irving Massey published “The Musical Dream Revisited: Music and Language in Dreams” in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, vol. s, no.1 (2006), 42-50.
A Symposium on the Life and Work of Robert Creeley
October 12
Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Avenue
8:00 p.m., Readings by Rosmarie Waldrop and Robin Blaser
October 13
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
10:00 a.m., Benjamin Friedlander: "What is Experience?"
11:00 a.m., Alan Golding: "Seriality in Creeley’s Poetry."
Lunch
1:30 p.m., Michael Gizzi: "Robert Creeley: Music on Words."
2:30 p.m., Peter Middleton: "Creeley Teaching."
3:30 p.m., Rachel Blau du Plessis: "Death and Sexual Difference in Later Creeley."
8:00 p.m.,Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Avenue
Readings by Susan Howe and John Ashbery
October 14
Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Avenue
10:00 a.m., Stephen Fredman: "Talk as Action: Robert Creeley, Bob Dylan and
the Art of the Interview."
11:00 a.m., Michael Davidson: "'the repeated/insistence': Creeley’s Rage."
Lunch
1:30 p.m., Charles Altieri:i "Why does Echoes Echo?"
2:30 p.m., Peter Quartermain: “Momently."
3:30 p.m., Marjorie Perloff: "Creeley as Radical Poet."
8:00 p.m., Readings by Charles Bernstein and Ann Lauterbach
For more information, contact the UB Department of English at 716-645-2575.
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