DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIA and UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES and CENTERS

Reading Groups and Colloquia

ANGLO-SAXON COLLOQUIUM Contact: ASSC@columbia.edu The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium aims to foster intellectual exchange among faculty and graduate students whose interests embrace the language, literature, and culture of early medieval England. Based in Columbia, New York University, Princeton, and Rutgers, the Colloquium seeks to expand the resources available to Anglo-Saxonists from these universities and other institutions in the area, and also to create a welcoming intellectual community for anyone who is interested in Anglo-Saxon studies. Core Faculty Committee: Patricia Dailey, Columbia University, Kathleen Davis, Princeton University, Stacy Klein, Rutgers University, Haruko Momma, New York University

CULTURAL MEMORY READING GROUP Contact: Jo Scutts (js2430) The Cultural Memory Reading Group hopes to create a vibrant interdisciplinary dialogue on contemporary issues of cultural and collective memory including but not limited to traumatic memory, collective and national forgetting, memorialization and museology, historical consciousness and historiography, embodied memory and performance, archive and testimony. We welcome graduate students and faculty from Columbia and its neighbors.

THE LONG EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY READING GROUP Contact: Adela Ramos (amr2105) While taking a look at Medieval and Early Modern texts from time to time, this group mainly concentrates on the discussion of Eighteenth-Century fiction, prose and its many forms. We draw our readings from literature, science, medicine, law, journalism, and other obscure fields that have nothing to do with swooning heroines. The members of the group come from a variety of fields and for a number of reasons. Some are looking to test ideas stemming from their dissertation projects, others have an orals related field, others are simply happy to join us on Thursday nights when they have nothing else to do, and others secretly regret having chosen another period of specialization.

THEORY READING GROUP Contact: Brian Lowrance (bjl2122) Open to faculty and graduate students of all years.

Groups discussing scholarly works-in-progress

AFRICAN AMERICANIST COLLOQUIUM (INTERDISCIPLINARY) Contact: Courtney Thorsson (erb2105) Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Institute for Research in African American Studies. We'll meet to discuss one graduate student's chapter or M.A. essay from 4-6pm the first Thursday of the month, beginning September 6th, in 758 Schermerhorn, the IRAAS conference room. All graduate students and faculty from any department working on projects related to African American Studies are welcome to attend.

AMERICANIST DISSERTATION SEMINAR Contact: Nathaniel Farrell (ncf2) A monthly workshop to aid students in the dissertation phase by reading and discussing full-length chapters with faculty and students of all years.

DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM Contact: Professor Bruce Robbins (bwr2001) This year the Graduate Program is reviving the Dissertation Colloquium. The colloquium provides a friendly, low-key meeting place for people early on in the dissertation, with perhaps one chapter done, more or less (we won't be picky). The group would be a supplement to the field-specific colloquia already in operation, and thus would focus a bit less on specialist detail and more on coherence, significance, and translating ideas for a general audience -- the sort of thing that will become extremely important when you're looking for a job.

MEDIEVAL GUILD Contact: Elizabeth Bonnette (eab2119) The medieval guild generally meets once or twice a month. During these sessions, they discuss conference papers, dissertation proposals and chapters, MA essays, and orals lists. Additionally, they hold a conference every year.

MODERNISM / POSTMODERNISM GROUP Contact: Eugene Vydrin (ev2010) The Modernism/Postmodernism group (MoPoMo) is open to all topics in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. We are an ideal place for those who take up the categories of the modern and the postmodern -- whether as historical periods or distinct movements in artistic production or both -- in order to revise, historicize, or apply them, in any combination. We especially invite projects dealing with texts in different mediums or on generic borderlines and discussion of all issues involved in such work. While we mostly read dissertation chapters in progress, we welcome students at any stage and are happy to workshop dissertation prospectuses, conference papers, and articles. Our faculty sponsor is Michael Golston.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLLOQUIUM Contact: Dehn Gilmore (dwg2101) and Jesse Rosenthal (jr2075) The Nineteenth-Century Colloquium is a group of graduate students interested in the nineteenth century, a flexible period including Romantic, Victorian, and early Modernist literature and culture, primarily in England and America. They meet once every three weeks to discuss one another's work - everything from seminar papers and master's essays to orals lists and dissertation chapters. They also discuss general academic trends and practical matters, discussions facilitated by the department-sponsored food and wine. The group welcomes new members at all levels of the graduate program, particularly first and second year students.

THEATRE COLLOQUIUM Contact: Timothy Youker (tey2101) The Theatre Colloquium is open to faculty and grad students of all years. It meets once a month to discuss dissertation chapters, articles in progress, or other member-submitted work related to theatre in any period.

TWENTIETH CENTURY DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM The 20th century dissertation colloquium is designed for post-M.Phil students who would like to workshop their prospectus or individual dissertation chapters. It is a student run group and meets once a month during the academic year. The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 5 at 6PM (location to be announced). The schedule of subsequent meetings will be determined then. If you are interested in finding out more about this meeting or in being added to our email list, please contact: —Beth McArthur (eam2001), Joanna Scutts (js2430) Note: If you are interested in a field that is not listed in the above colloquia or if you would like to concentrate on a cross-field topic, please speak with Joy Hayton (jh20) in the English Department. English Department and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences money may be available to fund your dream colloquium. University Institutes and Centers of special note to ENCL students Each has its own website, which is easily accessible from the CU "Research Institutes and Centers" page. Look for conferences, speaker series and other events sponsored by these institutes and centers. Center for Jazz Studies Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Heyman Center for the Humanities Institute of African Studies Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Institute for Research in African American Studies Institute for Research on Women and Gender back to Graduate Index