NYU Poetics and Theory Conference THIS SATURDAY

We are pleased to invite you to Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction, a Poetics and Theory/Comparative Literature Workshop sponsored by the Humanities Initiative. Time: Saturday, March 3rd, 10:30AM-5:00PM. Place: the Great Room, 19 University Place, New York University.

10:30 Opening Remarks

Lauren Shizuko Stone, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Natalie Nagel

10:45-12:15
Paul Fleming (Cornell), Coquetry without End: Six Theses on Flirtation (Simmel)
Respondent: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (NYU)

John Hamilton (Harvard), The Luxury of Self-Destruction: Flirting with Mimesis with Roger Caillois
Respondent: Sage Anderson (NYU)

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00
Rüdiger Campe (Yale), Rhetoric's Flirtation with Literature, from Aristotle to Quintilian: the Epideictic Genre
Respondent: Arne Höcker (NYU)

Elisabeth Strowick (Johns Hopkins), Life is a Flirtation: Felix Krull (T. Mann)
Respondent: Lauren Shizuko Stone (NYU)

3:00-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-5:00
Jacques Lezra (NYU), Doing it as the Beasts Do (Jensen, Freud)
Respondent: Barbara Natalie Nagel (NYU)

Barbara Vinken (LMU/NYU), Frill and Flirtation. Femininity in the Public Space
Respondent: Erica Weitzman (NYU)

Poetics & Theory Dirk Quadflieg Seminar & Lecture Postponed

The Quadflieg seminar originally scheduled for this Monday, March 5, has been postponed until March 19. The Quadflieg lecture originally scheduled for March 8th has been postponed until March 20.

There are also a few other changes in our original P&T Feb-April event schedule. Please see changes in GREEN below.

Also: Don’t forget the Anachronic Shakespeare conference this Saturday!

POETICS & THEORY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM EVENTS

February, March and April 2012

The following events are sponsored by the Poetics and Theory Program -- with financial and moral support from the Department of Comparative Literature.

· Tuesday, February 14 4-6:00pm Shira Wolosky

Hebrew University

Lecture: "Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas and Robert Frost"

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor)

· Friday, February 24th - Saturday, February 25th

Conference: Anachronic Shakespeare

100 Washington Square East/Silver Center, Jurow Hall (1st floor)

See http://complit.as.nyu.edu/page/events for program details.



· Saturday, March 3rd

Conference/Workshop:

“Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction”

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor) All day

See http://complit.as.nyu.edu/page/events for program details.

· Monday, March 19th 6:30-8:30pm SEMINAR with Dirk Quadflieg

Goethe University & Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Columbia University

“Reification: Lukacs and Honneth” (readings TBA)

19 University Place, room 223

NOTE: Seating is limited! Come early!

· Tuesday, March 20th 4-6:00pm LECTURE with Dirk Quadflieg "Reification"

19 University Place, Great Room



· Monday, March 26th 6-8:00pm Kiarina Kordela

Macalester College

Seminar: “Spinoza’s Resistence” (readings TBA)

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor)

· Monday, April 2nd 6-8:00pm Katrin Trüstedt

University of Erfurt

Lecture: "Translation, Transference and Sublation in The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare - Hegel - Derrida"

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor)

Elizabeth Bishop Centennial Conference: This Thursday and Friday (12/1; 12/2) at Gallatin

To the NYU and NYC Community:

Please join the Gallatin Writing Program at: VISIONS COINCIDING: An ELIZABETH BISHOP CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE, THIS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1ST and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2ND.

Co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Poetry Society of America, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1 Washington Place

THURSDAY, 12/1

6-6:45 pm: Seeing Elizabeth Bishop, by Eric Karpeles

7-8:30 pm: Bishop in Brazil Screening & Discussion, by Helena Blaker, Brett Millier, Barbara Page, and Lloyd Schwartz, with Alice Quinn

FRIDAY, 12/1

1-2:30 pm: Elizabeth Bishop and Modern Art, by William Benton and Peggy Samuels, with Lisa Goldfarb

3-4:30 pm: Editors' Roundtable, by Joelle Biele, Saskia Hamilton, Lloyd Schwartz and Thomas Travisono, with Jonathan Galassi

5-6pm: Gallatin Poet/Poetry Teacher and Student Poetry Reading, by Emily Fragos, Scott Hightower, and students Jacqueline Allen, Emma Behnke, Stephanie Rodas and Luke Vargas

6:30-8 pm: Celebratory Poetry Reading, by Frank Bidart, John L. Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maureen McLane, Mark Strand and Jean Valentine

RSVP & questions: WP Coordinator Molly Kleiman, mollykleiman@nyu.edu

Jennifer Celestin Performs at El Museo del Barrio this Saturday, 10/15

Draper student Jennifer Celestin will be performing alongside multilinguall poets and writers at El Museo del Barrio this weekend, as part of an event celebrating the Day of the Dead. More information about the event is below, and also available on the museum website, here: http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/speak-mis-raices-no-han-muerto-my-roots-are-not-dead

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SPEAK UP! Mis raíces no han muerto (My Roots are not Dead)

Saturday, October 15, 2011

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

El Teatro

Admission: Free

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs hosts a night of multilingual verse, narrative, indigenous song and innovation in celebration of Day of the Dead. Throughought the evening, these poets will showcase the many roots that thrive in our blood memory. Special guests include Odi Gonzales, Mónica de la Torre, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Celestin with short films from the project "Son Siglos" by poet and filmmaker Marco Villalobos.

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!

Chuck Wachtel Reads with Breyten Breytenbach, 11/4

Draper's own Chuck Wachtel (who teaches The Human Fact each fall) will be reading from his new novel 3/03 at the NYU Bookstore on Thursday, November 4th at 7:00 PM. He will be joined by South African poet and and activist Breyten Breytenbach, who will read from his recent poetry collection Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish.

More information about this event is available on the NYU Bookstore website, here: http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/events/indexnov.html/#wachtel

Verse Chorus Reading at KGB Bar feat. Yvonne Garrett, Tomorrow, 12/15

Head to the KGB Bar tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15th from 7:00 - 9:00 PM for a Verse Chorus reading featuring Draper student Yvonne Garrett!

More information is available on the KGB Web site:
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/verse_chorus_reading/

Call for Papers: Romantic Revolutionaries at Home and Abroad

Call for Papers

“Romantic Revolutionaries at Home and Abroad”
A seminar at the ACLA 2010 in New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010

Seminar Organizers: *Bilal Hashmi*, NYU; *Kevin Goldstein*, NYU; *Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca, *NYU
http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=396

Seminar Description: This panel will explore the relationship between commitment and cosmopolitanism in 20th century poetry. Modeled on the friendship between *Faiz Ahmed Faiz* (1911-1984), *Nazim Hikmet* (1902–1963), and *Pablo Neruda* (1904-1973), our seminar invites new comparative approaches to the theorization of postcolonial poetics, specifically within transnational, tricontinental, third world, and global south discourses.

How did poets situate themselves and engage with each other amid rapidly changing geopolitical circumstances during “the age of three worlds”? In what contexts were global networks of solidarity established — i.e., through correspondence, translation, publication, international writers’ conferences / symposia? How did poets from different national situations influence each other’s work? What was the role of the national poet during the convulsive post-revolutionary artistic renaissance? How might this period inform the notion of Weltliteratur (at a time when Moscow replaced Paris as literary capital)?

Topics may include, but are not limited to: “the national poet”; regionalism versus internationalism; the poetics of exile; the poet as diplomat and/or politician; the poet and the state; censorship; communist internationalism and the poetics of solidarity; la littérature engagée; the romantic revolutionary; the communist ideal as a romantic symbol; the poet as propagandist.

250-word proposals due November 13, 2009; all proposals must be submitted
through the conference website at http://www.acla.org/acla2010/ .

Brio Literary Journal call for submissions

Now accepting submissions!

Brio (a comp. lit. journal) is now accepting submissions of visual art, poetry, prose, and critical essays for its 2009-2010 edition. Submit 1, 2, or 10 to briojournal@gmail.com. Open to all members of the NYU community.

Also, help us create our new cover design! (Email for more details)

Deadline for all: 11-30-09

Brio also has a presence on facebook - feel free to visit.

Draper Student News: Yvonne Garrett, Reader in Sixth Annual Marathon Reading of "Song of Myself"

On Sunday, September 6th, Draper student Yvonne Garrett participated in the Sixth Annual Marathon Reading of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." Yvonne writes about the experience below.

This past Sunday I was one of some forty New Yorkers who read aloud Walt Whitman’s epic poem “Song of Myself.” Organized by the Whitman Project, the reading was hosted by NYU Professor Karen Karbiener and took place aboard the tall ship Peking at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan.

Jack Putnam from the Museum started the reading with a brief historical background and Prof. Karbiener provided an introduction to Whitman and his work. Each of the readers was vastly different in reading style – some very straightforward and others highly theatrical. All ages and many accents – Manhattan, Brooklyn, Southern, some I couldn’t identify – were represented giving the reading a decided Whitman-esque quality. Although the day started out sunny and fair, by the time my sections came up (36 and 37), the wind had picked up, the sky was filled with ominous clouds and the temperature had dropped – a fitting backdrop for those sections which start, “Stretch'd and still lies the midnight/Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness..” Most of the readers read from the project-provided Dover Thrift edition although some used their own preferred version of the poem. Whitman was famous for his revisions (some claim that these revisions often did not improve the poem) and hearing the back and forth between the different versions gave the reading a unique depth that a straight reading can’t provide.

The reading itself took nearly three hours – an exhausting but also exhilarating event. This is my second year participating and the uniquely New York experience of hearing and reading this poem aloud with so many other New Yorkers in such an apt setting (the foredeck of a 19th Century barque) is one I highly recommend.