Thursday, February 23, 2012
Prometheus in Drift: An Evening of Modernist Readings, 3/2
G o e t h e - H รถ l d e r l i n - R e n a r d - K l e i s t - W a l s e r - V a l e r y
B e c k e t t - K a f k a - S t e v e n s - Y e s e n i n - B a u d e l a i r e
M y a k o v s k y - C e l a n
friday, 03.02, 7pm nyu kimmel, rm 909, 60 washington sq s
if you would like to volunteer to read one of the selections or have any questions about the event, please contact nyu@platypus1917.org
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Reminder: Call for Papers: DSO Grad Conference -- Arriving at Confluence
New Summer Crosslists with English
- DRAP-GA.2197: Topics in Modern Literature and Culture: New York in the Age of Warhol
- Tuesday / Thursday, 4:30 - 6:30 PM -- Prof. Bryan Waterman
- DRAP-GA.2953: Major Texts in Critical Theory: On Words and Things
- Monday / Wednesday, 4:00 - 6:00 PM -- Prof. Shireen Patell
- DRAP-GA.2905: Topics in Postcolonial Literature: The Novel and (in) the World
- Tuesday / Thursday, 4:00 - 6:00 PM -- Prof. Toral Gajarawala
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Burden of Choice: Guns (A Talk w/ John Feinblatt, 2/29 -- Columbia University)
The Institute for religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia invites you to the following event.
Burden of Choice: Guns
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs, Room 707
420 West 118th Street
A conversation with John Feinblatt, the chief policy adviser to Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and the lead architect of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Moderated by Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law at Columbia University.
Burden of Choice is a conversation series about how proliferating choices in a liberal democracy both liberate and constrain us, including charitable giving on February 15; waste on March 28; and debt on April 3.
NYU Anachronic Shakespeare Poetics & Theory Conference at NYU: Feb 24-25
You are cordially invited to the annual conference of the NYU Poetics and Theory Certificate Program:
Anachronic Shakespeare
A Poetics and Theory Conference
February 24-February 25, 2012
New York University
Jurow Hall, Silver Center
24-26 Waverly Place at Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
Friday, February 24th
10:00 Welcome
10:15 John Archer, Shakespeare's Poor Beast (English, NYU)
11:45 Stuart Elden, The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth (Geography, Durham University)
2:30 Vike Plock, Made in Germany: Joyce Reading Goethe Reading Hamlet (English, University of Exeter)
3:45 Rebecca Comay, Hamletizations (Benjamin, Schmitt.....) (Philosophy, University of Toronto)
5:30 Keynote: Samuel Weber, Forgetting the Hobby-Horse: Hamlet Between Schmitt and Benjamin
(Comparative Literature, Northwestern University)
6:30 Response by Julia Lupton (English, UC Irvine)
Saturday, February 25th
10:00 Anselm Haverkamp, Life in the Sonnets: On Life’s Anachronic Nature (English, NYU)
11:15 Julia Lupton, Softscapes: Shakespeare by Design (English, UC Irvine)
2:00 Closing Roundtable
Sponsored by the DFG Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen und Lebenswissen
(Graduate Research Colloquium in Forms of Life and the Know-How of
Living), the NYU Certificate in Poetics and Theory, and the NYU
Comparative Literature Department.
http://poeticsandtheory.
Conference organized by Elizabeth Bonapfel, Martin Harries, Anselm
Haverkamp, and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz.
Call for Submissions: The L Magazine Wants Your Short Fiction
The L Magazine is proud to announce our eighth Literary Upstart, The Search for Pocket Fiction competition.
Writers are encouraged to submit their previously unpublished short fiction (a maximum of 1,500 words).
Semi-finalists, fifteen in total, will be invited to participate in one of three readings in Williamsburg, in front of a live, lively audience, and a panel of judges comprised of members of the local literati.
The three semi-final winners will advance to our final reading, where they'll vie for a cash prize, and publication in The L Magazine's annual Summer Fiction Issue.
Submission deadlines are on a rolling basis for the three semifinal readings, which are scheduled for late March, April and May.
Submission guidelines:
Entries (please limit yourself to two submissions) should be polished little labors of love of no more than 1,500 previously unpublished words. Content, style, subject, et cetera is at the discretion of the writer.
Kindly email submissions as an attached Word document in a standard, 12-point font to:
literaryupstart [at] thelmagazine [dot] com
While curlicues and bubble fonts make us blush, they also make our poor eyes bleed, so please keep it simple and please double space. Please include your name, the title of your story, and your email address, at least on the first page your story and perhaps even on subsequent pages.
Last, but not least, please remember that the live readings are a major component of this competition, so if you're not living in the NYC area or cannot arrange to be here for a reading or two between March and June, you may wish to reconsider submitting your work.
Happy Writing,
The L Magazine
literaryupstart [at] thelmagazine [dot] com