Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-2009

Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of EnglishSeries Poster

David L. Clark, McMaster University 
Imagining Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St.

Series Organizer: Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
"They Lost Us the Beach": Dorothy West and the Geography of Class
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

Series Organizer: Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Kevin Bell, University at Albany, State University of New York
Non-cognitive Aspects of the City: Image as Rend in "Still/Here"
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English

Mary Favret, Indiana University 
Still Winter Falls
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English

Ian Baucom, Duke University 
Cicero's Ghost: The Atlantic, the Enemy, and the Laws of War
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St.

Lecture Series: German Studies and the Humanities: New Directions

For more information, see the German Studies events webpage. Co-sponsored by the English Department.

Nonfiction Writing Program: True Stories

Caroline Dworin Writer, The New York Times

Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

This event is funded by a Salomon Grant (Dean of the College) and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English.

Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

This event is funded by a Salomon Grant (Dean of the College) and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English.

Series Organizer: Coppélia Kahn, Professor of English

Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapman's Ironic Homer
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.
This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature and co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English

Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania 
Peace, Prophecy, and Critical Futurities in Joyce and Beyond
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St.

Series Organizer: Coppélia Kahn, Professor of English

Elliott Visconsi, Yale University
The Literary Invention of the First Amendment
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.
This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature and co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotech Revolution: Towards a Genomic Mythology

Priscilla Wald, Duke University

Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.
This lecture is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature

Nonfiction Writing Program: At the End of the Road: Reporting in the Seams

C.J. Chivers

Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street
This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English.

Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

Symposium: A Hole in the Nation? American Literature After Deleuze

Speakers:
Branka Arsić, SUNY Albany
David Jarraway, University of Ottawa
Timothy Murphy, University of Oklahoma
A response by Brian Evenson, Brown University Program in Literary Arts, will follow.
 
Symposium Organizer: Timothy Bewes, Brown University Department of English
Smith Buonanno 106, Pembroke Campus

This symposium is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature.

Nonfiction Writing Program: Narrative Journalism: Reporting, Organizing, Writing and Ethics

David Finkel, Reporter, The Washington Post
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street
This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English.

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins: Lecture Series 2008-2009

Series Organizer: Jacques Khalip, Assistant Professor of English

Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
The Soldier's Dissent in Homer and Hobbes
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall

Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

Brown Bookstore

Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction:

1st Place: Kevin B. Roose, The Workers are Few, from The Unlikely Disciple
2nd Place: Noam Dorr, Wouldn't It
Honorable Mention: Sandra E. Allen, The Problem With the Writer
Honorable Mention: Rachel Z. Arndt, So Much Can Happen When You Don't Speak the Language

Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing: 

Sandra E. Allen, A Story About Bobby

David Rome Prize for Best Lyric Essay: 

Emily A. Silverman, 120/80

Talk: Baldwin's Sissy Heroics

Marlon Ross, Professor of English, University of Virginia

Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St.

Nonfiction Writing Program: Faculty Reading

Nonfiction Writing Faculty will read from their most recent books. Book signing to follow.

Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street

This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English.