Calendar of Events: 2009-10

August '09

Wednesday, Aug. 26
English Department Welcome Back Get Together

Time: Noon
Location: the courtyard adjacent to the English Department office

September

 

October

Thursday, October 8
Race and American Superhero Comics: A Lecture by Dr. Conseula Francis

Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Location: Addlestone Library
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Wednesday, October 14
The Color Purple by Alice Walker: African American Studies Brown Bag Book Discussion Series

Time: 12-1:30 PM
Location: 220 Addlestone Library
For more information, visit http://blogs.cofc.edu/aast or contact Conseula Francis at 843-953-7738.

Wednesday, October 14
CofC Film Club Screening of The Green Room, directed by Francois Truffault, based on Henry James's The Altar of the Dead

Time: 7PM
Location: ECTR 118

Thursday, October 22
John McGowan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Q & A for English 319 (Literary Criticism) Class

Time: 9:25AM
Location: Stern Center 206
Open to all students
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Thursday, October 22
John McGowan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"What are the Humanities Good For?" (Public Lecture)

Time: 6PM
Location: Alumni Center, 86 Wentworth Street
Free and Open to the Public
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Thursday, October 22
Jennine Capó Crucet reads from her book How To Leave Hialeah, winner of University of Iowa Press’ John Simmons Short Fiction Award.

Time: 7:30PM
Location: Addlestone Library 227
read more about Jennine Capó Crucet ...

Friday, October 23
Jennine Capó Crucet discusses the art and craft of writing fiction.

Time: 11AM
Location: Addlestone Library 227
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Thursday, October 29
English Major Pre-Registration Party

Time: 3:15 PM
Location: Arnold Hall
...music by Paul Allen et al., professors, advising, course flyers, food...

November

Monday, November 9
"Picturing Flannery O'Connor"

discussion panel featuring Bret Lott, Julia Eichelberger, and Anthony Varallo of the English department, and Nancy Marshall, whose photography exhibit of O'Connor's farm, Andalusia, will be on display in the Addlestone Library. The event will invite group discussion of Flannery O'Connor's work and offer student readings from several of her short stories.

Additionally, we will announce and award the winning entry in the Flannery O'Connor student rewrite contest, the "Attention All Misfits Prize."

Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 227 Addlestone Library

December

January '10

February

March

April