The English Department & the Seminar on "Varieties of Enchantment"
present a symposium on
"Enchantment across Disciplines"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:00-7:00PM
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room (Reception to
follow)
Featuring:
Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia
University: "Why Should We Care about Enchantment?"
Wendy Faris, Professor of English, University of Texas at Arlington:
"'We, the shamans, eat tobacco and sing': Figures of Shamanic Power in US
and Latin American Magical Realism"
Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke University: "An Historian
among the Goddesses of Modern India"
Michael Saler, Professor of History, UC Davis: "Disenchanted Enchantment"
Literature Now: New Book Series on Contemporary Literature
We are pleased to announce Literature Now, a new scholarly book
series on contemporary literature, to be co-edited by our own Matthew Hart in collaboration with David James (University of Nottingham, UK)
and Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers University). The series will be published by
Columbia University Press.
The academic study of
contemporary literature, which concentrates on the writing of the
late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is currently undergoing something of
a boom. Literature Now intends to
symbolize the maturation of the field while helping to shape its future
direction. The series will offer a distinct vision of contemporary
literary culture, focusing on the literature of the present and on the ways we
understand the meaning of literature in the present. Literature Now will be the first-ever book series to welcome
contemporary projects that are comparative and transnational in scope as well
as those focused on national and regional literary cultures. For more
information, please email Professor
Hart.
The Rachel Wetzsteon Prize has been
established in loving memory of Rachel Wetzsteon, an esteemed poet,
editor, and member of the Columbia University Ph. D. class of 1999. It shall be awarded annually to
that candidate for the Master of Arts degree in the Columbia University
Department of English and Comparative Literature who, in the judgment
of the department's Prize Committee, has written the best master's
thesis on either twentieth- or twenty-first century poetry. The prize
shall be in the amount of two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225). Both
continuing and terminal masters students shall be eligible for the
prize, with preference being given to neither class of student. If the
Prize Committee determines that no essay in a given year merits the
awarding of the prize, the prize monies for that year shall be added to
the prize amount for the following year.
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