Comp Lit Colloquium: Jay Garcia, 4/27 "Richard Wright's Comic Corrective"

After an extended hiatus, we are delighted to herald the return of the
Comparative Literature Colloquium series next Friday, April 27.

Associate Professor Jay Garcia, who joined our faculty last fall, will give
a talk entitled:

"Richard Wright's Comic Corrective"

The talk will be based on an article currently in the works. Please pick up
a copy from the Comp Lit office (in a clearly labeled box behind the front
desk), or email Jay for a digital copy (jg197@nyu.edu).

Friday, April 27
4-6 p.m.
Draper seminar room: 22-24 8th St.

There will be ample time for questions and discussion, fueled as always by
light refreshments.

Hope to see you there!

Draper's Year-End Party, May 9

Save the Date!

Join Us! You'll have this much fun! (via Flickr Commons here)

Draper's Year-End and Graduation Celebration

Wednesday, May 9

Starts at 5:30

Draper Map Room

14 University Place, 1st Floor

Join us to celebrate the end of another great year at Draper and to toast this May's graduates!

Food and drink will be served; friends and family welcome.

A Talk Presented by NYU's Romanticist Reading Group, 4/18

The NYU Department of English &  
The Romanticist Reading Group of NYU 

(nyurrg.org) 

PRESENT:

"Modern Nature; or, Imagination Revisited"

Anahid J. Nersessian (Presenter, Columbia English and Comparative Literature)

Maureen N. McLane (Respondent, NYU Department of English)

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space

Wednesday, April 18th

6 - 8 pm

**Snacks and wine will be served**

"This talk suggests some new possibilities for ecological critique by revisiting the familiar, gently antiquated concept of the Romantic imagination. Through readings of William Cowper, Dorothy Wordsworth, and the late-Romantic artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, I propose a return to literary and aesthetic questions about how we imagine, represent, and make sensible phenomena which are intermittently or not at all available to the senses." 

- Anahid J. Nersessian

Threesis Reminder! This Saturday at Kimmel! Free Wine and Cheese!

The GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge hosted by the Graduate School of Arts and Science Master's College is this Saturday!!!

As you know, seven of our very own Draperites will be competing to get into this final round. Come support all the Threesis Competitors and vote for the recipient of the audience choice award.

Saturday, March 31st - Final Round begins at 4:00 PM.
Doors open at 3:30 PM.

NYU Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South, Fourth Floor, New York, NY

Please RSVP for this event through the link below
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.threesis2012.rsvp

A wine and cheese reception will follow. This event will have an audience choice award worth $750 in prize money, so you being there will have a direct impact on the event's outcome. Please come out to support students from across the Graduate School.

Check out last year’s event’s highlights and winning presentations here: http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge

DSO Meeting Tonight, March 1st

Hi, Draperites!

The Draper Student Organization is having its first meeting of the semester this Thursday, March 1st at 8:30pm in the Map Room!

Join us if you're interested in helping plan DSO events and want to get involved with the inaugural Draper conference, "Arriving at Confluence."

Please RSVP if you're attending (we're bringing snacks, so we want to make sure to have enough) at dsonyu@gmail.com.

We are also looking to elect a Secretary onto the Executive Board, so if you're interested please email us and come prepared with any questions you might have about being on the E-Board.

Hope you can join us!

The DSO E-Board

Bridget, Valentine & Scott

DSO Forum (with Pizza) This Friday, 2/17, Noon - 2:00 PM

Hey everyone,

The D.S.O. Forum is back this semester. We'll have our first meeting this Friday, the 17th from high noon 'til 2pm in the Map room.

There will be free pizza!

This week we'd like to talk about the presidential election. So if you'd like, bring an article or editorial loosely pertaining to American politics to discuss. If you don't feel like talking politics that's fine too. Just come, eat, and hang out; it's very casual!

Here's a couple of articles Valentine and I at the D.S.O. thought were worth discussing... Eurozone leaders 'call of Greece crisis talks' and Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy, by Glenn Greenwald.

And If you wouldn't mind, please RSVP at dsonyu@gmail.com (so we know how much pizza to buy).

See you on Friday!
Scott
Draper Student Organization

Join us to start off the spring semester right and honor the achievements of our September 2011 and January 2012 graduates!

Draper's Spring Party and Graduate Celebration
Friday, January 27
Starts at 5:00 PM
Draper Map Room: 14 University Place, 1st Floor
Food and drink will be served
RSVPs to draper.program@nyu.edu

Two Weeks from Today...

Two Important Reminders for Friday, December 16!

Thesis Submission for January Graduates

Please be reminded that those of you who intend to graduate this coming January will need to submit your completed and approved Master's thesis to Draper no later than one month from today: Friday, December 16. Any theses received after 6:00 PM on December 16 will be held over for May graduation. There will be no exceptions.

For more information on thesis guidelines, please see Draper's Web site, here: http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.program.thesisguidelines

All thesis related forms--including a sample cover page and second reader sheets--can also be downloaded from the Draper website, here:http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.forms

If you have any questions or concerns about the thesis submission or graduation processes, please feel free to email us at draper.program@nyu.edu.

Draper's Year-End Celebration Party

After you've turned in your thesis and/or had your last class for the semester, stop by Draper to celebrate the end of another busy year with food, wine, and general merriment. Feel free to bring your loved ones!

Let us know if you're coming: RSVP to draper.program@nyu.edu.

Two American Lit and Culture Talks at NYU Tomorrow

The New York University

Colloquium in American Literature and Culture

presents

Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893

A talk by Professor Mark Noonan of New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

and

The New York World, The Cosmopolitan, and the Race to Write the World American

A talk by Professor Kevin Riordan of NYU Abu Dhabi

Tuesday, November 29

13-19 University Place, Great Room

New York University

6:00 p.m.

All are welcome!

Refreshments will be served.

One Month from Today...

Two Important Reminders for Friday, December 16!

Thesis Submission for January Graduates

Please be reminded that those of you who intend to graduate this coming January will need to submit your completed and approved Master's thesis to Draper no later than one month from today: Friday, December 16. Any theses received after 6:00 PM on December 16 will be held over for May graduation. There will be no exceptions.

For more information on thesis guidelines, please see Draper's Web site, here: http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.program.thesisguidelines

All thesis related forms--including a sample cover page and second reader sheets--can also be downloaded from the Draper website, here:http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.forms

If you have any questions or concerns about the thesis submission or graduation processes, please feel free to email us at draper.program@nyu.edu.

Draper's Year-End Celebration Party

After you've turned in your thesis and/or had your last class for the semester, stop by Draper to celebrate the end of another busy year with food, wine, and general merriment. Feel free to bring your loved ones!

Let us know if you're coming: RSVP to draper.program@nyu.edu.

DSO Save the Dates: Pizza and Costumes!

Hi Draper,

A couple of dates-to-save below. Thanks so much to everyone who has been coming out for these events! It's been a lot fun so far!

1.) Tuesday, October 25th

Draper Brown Bag Lunch Forum

Draper Map Room

12-2pm

Pizza included this time only!

Come join us for pizza and a general roundtable Draper talk. The preliminary schedule for Spring 2012 is up, and this Forum is a great opportunity to discuss Draper courses and professors, and get advice on taking courses outside of Draper/GSAS etc. If you're a returning student, come offer your expertise and share your general experience with various classes and professors. If you're new, come soak it all in and ask questions.

Please RSVP at dsonyu@gmail.com so that we know how much food to order!

2.) Thursday, October 27th

Draper Salon

Joint Halloween Party with the Museum Studies DSO!

Off-The-Wagon

109 MacDougal Street
8pm-10pm

Wear a costume, and members of the MSSO will choose the winners and buy them drinks!!!

See you all soon!

DSO

dsonyu@gmail.com

Brown Bag Lunch Forum

Tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 11th, Draper Map Room 12noon-2pm.

First Brown Bag Lunch Forum, Free Pizza!

Please RSVP to dsonyu@gmail.com so that we know how much pizza to order. Please provide your name and a brief description of a work-in-progress that you'd like to discuss and get some feedback on.

See you there!

The DSO is Back: First Event this Week!

Hello, Draperites!

At long last, the new DSO is up and running. Save these dates, and join us!

Kickoff Draper Salon: Thursday, October 6^th , Amity Hall 80 West 3^rd Street.

8:30 – 10:30pm, $4 craft beers and $4 well drinks + Trivial Pursuit!!!

Come mix, mingle and match wits against your fellow brilliant, charming Draper compadres, and uphold the aims of the Salons of the Enlightenment: amuse each other, refine your tastes and knowledge, please, educate. The Salon will be a weekly Thursday night event.

Kickoff Brown bag Lunch Forum: Tuesday, October 11^th , Draper Map Room, 12noon – 2pm.

Gather and discuss paper topics, upcoming assignments, that genius thing you meant to say in class three days ago but just finally found the words for now. If you’d like to attend, please email dsonyu@gmail.com with a description of what you’d like to discuss at the forum (the topic of a paper, an idea you’re wrestling with in hopes of formulating a thesis, a piece of writing you think could use a peer edit etc.) These topics will be collected and compiled by the Forum moderator, in the interest of promoting quality feedback, and helping to connect students with similar academic interests.

Pizza lunch will be provided for this first Forum! Please bring a drink or anything else you’d like to eat. Forums will be a bi-weekly event.

Draper Conference, November 18^th, time and location TBA, keep your eyes peeled for a call for presenters.

We’re very much looking forward to getting to know everyone, and to building our Draper community!

Bridget, Valentine & Scott

DSO Board

dsonyu@gmail.com

Romanticist Reading Group - 9/29 Event

The NYU English Department's Romanticist Reading Group cordially invites you to its first meeting of the semester on Thursday, September 29th from 6:30 to 8 pm:

Romanticism and the Visionary Poetry

Location: The Silver Building, Room 507

Time: 6:30 - 8 pm

Wine and Snacks will be served

We will examine selections from William Blake and S.T. Coleridge and begin the discussion with a talk about the Visual, the Visions and the Visionary in Romantic Poetry. If interested, please email Omar F. Miranda at ofm203@nyu.edu for the readings.

We are also seeking new members to assume leadership positions in the group. We are interested in a cross-disciplinary and multi-lingual approach to Romanticism--a legacy living on and on! Any interested student from any field is welcome: Not only limited to 18th and 19th Century Studies. Please email ofm203@nyu.edu

To Sunny Pleasure Domes with Caves of Ice!

Fall Soiree with the Master's College: Tomorrow!

Classes have started and we are ready for a year of fantastic events. Let's start the year off right! Join the GSAS Master's College for the annual Fall Soiree:

This Friday, September 16th
5:30 - 8:00 PM

The NYU Torch Club

18 Waverly Place

wine and cheese

To register for this event, send an email with your name and the name of this event to: gsas.masterscollege.rsvp@nyu.edu

This Thursday, September 1

Fall 2011 Orientation and Start of Semester Party
Starts at 6:00 PM

13-19 University Place, Room 102
(Directly across the street from Draper)

Reception to follow orientation at the Draper office.

A campus map is here: http://www.nyu.edu/footer/map.html

Please join Draper faculty and staff on Thursday, September 1st for our fall 2011 orientation. New and returning students will meet new Draper faculty, and learn more about fall course offerings, upcoming events of interest, and important information about starting the semester. A reception will follow in the Draper offices.

RSVPs are appreciated; please email draper.program@nyu.edu to let us know if you will be joining us.

June Summer Happy Hour with the Master's College: 6/10

GSAS Master's College Program Board June Summer Happy Hour:
Friday, June 10th
from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Let's get the summer started off right. The GSAS Master's College Program Board
is hosting a Summer Happy Hour at Murphy & Gonzalez. Guests receive two drink
tickets and free appetizers. Friday, June 10th from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm. To
register send an email with your name and the name of the event to
gsas.masterscollege.rsvp@nyu.edu.

NYU Buys You Breakfast (for Dinner)

via the NYU Minute e-newsletter:

Breakfast for Dinner

Join us for our annual Breakfast for Dinner! Graduate Students and Commuters are invited to take a break from studying for finals and enjoy a FREE breakfast at dinnertime as well as great giveaways! Monday, May 9, from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm in the Kimmel Center Market Place (3rd floor).

RSVP required »

Rebecca Colesworthy NYU Lecture on Poe: May 20th

Positioning Poe:
Purloined Letters, Counterfeit Coins, and Other Modern Fictions

A lecture by Professor Rebecca Colesworthy

Friday, May 20th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
NYU's School of Law - Furman Hall,
245 Sullivan Street, Room 216

Reception to follow lecture.

Please RSVP to community.affairs@nyu.edu

How might literature be like money and money like literature? What is the relevance of economic notions of “credit,” “value,” and “exchange” to literary studies? What is the relationship between events in economic history (such as financial crises) and processes of artistic and intellectual production?

This talk positions the work of Edgar Allan Poe within a transnational and interdisciplinary tradition of reflecting on the strange connections between literary and monetary forms of representation. While Poe’s work is productive for pondering the formal and thematic intersections between art and commerce, reading his work in light of these intersections helps us to reconsider Poe’s gender politics—namely, his notorious claim that the most poetical topic in the world is the death of a beautiful woman.

Save the Date!

Draper's Semester-End Party & Graduation Celebration
Thursday, May 12
Starting at 5:00 PM in the Draper Map Room
Food and drink served; family and friends welcome.

Join us to celebrate the end of another great year at Draper and recognize the achievements of our May 2011 graduates. The winner of the 2010-2011 Hirschhorn Thesis Award will also be announced.

RSVPs are appreciated: email draper.program@nyu.edu to let us know if you'll be joining us.