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Events Calendar

January 3–6, 2019





Mimi Rowntree, presenting “Weathering the Storm: Survival, Vulnerability, and Transformation,” 2019 MLA Annual Convention

Location: Chicago, IL



November 17–20, 2018





Joul Smith, presenting “Hermeneutical Roundtable: Active Learning with Biblical Lit” and “The Prophet’s Enthymeme: King, Prophets, Kenneth Burke, and the Hermeneutic of Identification,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference

Location: Denver, CO



November 14, 2018





Sonja Watson, presenting “Globalization, Transculturation, and Hybrid Identity in Panamanian Music: Reggae en Español,” Center for Theory

Location: COBA 239

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

November 7–11, 2018





Kathryn Warren, presenting “Learning from Transcendentalism,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference

Location: Denver, CO



November 7–11, 2018





Desirée Henderson, presenting “Dickinson and the Diary,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference

Location: Denver, CO



November 1–4, 2018





Amy Tigner, presenting “Culinary Cross-Dressing: Cooking Spanish and Portuguese Recipes in the Early Modern English Kitchen,” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference

Location: Albuquerque, NM



October 31, 2018





Gabe Ignatow, presenting “Social Theory in the Digital Age,” Center for Theory

Location: COBA 239

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

October 25–27





Estee Beck, presenting “Still Paying Attention: Writing in/of the Surveillance State,” Watson Conference

Location: Louisville, KY



October 24–27, 2018





Amanda Monteleone, presenting “The Native Gothic in the Poetry of John Rollin Ridge,” Western Literature Associate Conference

Location: St. Louis, MO



October 18–20, 2018





Jade Harrison, presenting “The Black Anthology Project,” AADHum Initiative’s Intentionally Black, Intentionally Black conference, University of Maryland

Location: College Park, MD



October 18–20, 2018





Jackie Fay, presenting “Becoming an Onion: The Extra-Human Nature of Genital Difference in Late Anglo-Saxon England,” Global Prehumanisms: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Location: Urbana, IL



October 17, 2018





Mimi Rowntree, presenting “(Dis)Composed Dwelling: Writing Ruins of Disaster,” Center for Theory

Location: University Hall 432

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

October 11–13, 2018





Stephanie Tavera, presenting “Not Just a Book about Teen Sex: Teaching Blume’s Forever in the Undergraduate Classroom,” South Central Modern Language Association Conference

Location: San Antonio, TX



October 11–14, 2018





Tim Morris, presenting "Exile, Accident, Desire: Migrating to the Italian Language in the work of Edith Bruck, Amara Lakhous and Jhumpa Lahiri,” South Central Modern Language Associate conference

Location: San Antonio, TX



October 3–5, 2018





Luanne Frank, presenting “The Way of Quintessential Love in Heidegger,” Philosophy and Love conference

Location: Salamanca, Spain



September 28, 2018





Native American Student Association, sponsoring “Intertribal Discussion: Belonging & Identity”

Location: 101 College Hall

Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

September 19, 2018





Lonny Harrison, presenting “Reaping the Storm: Responses to Soviet Authoritarianism in Russian Literature and Mass Culture,” Center for Theory

Location: University Hall 432

Time: 12:00 p.m to 1:00 p.m.



Tuesday, September 25th





Writing Boot Camp

Location: Carlisle 103

Time: 9:00am to 1:30pm

Wednesday, May 23rd





Estee Beck, presenting “Western Democracy, Social Media, and Trolls: Where to Start,” Computers and Writing conference

Location: Fairfax, VA

Time: May 23 to May 26

Wednesday, May 2nd





Estee Beck, presenting [title TBD], Center for Theory

Location: TBD

Time: Noon

Wednesday, April 18th





Michael Palm, presenting “The New Old: Vinyl Records and Digital Media,” Center for Theory

Location: TBD

Time: Noon

Tuesday, April 17





Estee Beck, invited talk, “Manipulating Consent Online: Weapons of Mass Surveillance and the Erosion of Privacy,” Department of English Guest Lecture Series

Location: Texas A&M–Central Texas



Friday, April 13





Estee Beck, invited talk, “Cambridge Analytica Foretold: Manipulating the Presidential Election through Data Mining,” ISTeC FutureVisions Symposium

Location: Colorado State University



Thursday, April 12, and Friday, April 13





EGSA’s Literary Conference, “(Dis)Unity and Destruction: Surviving the Storm Together”

Location: TBA

Time: TBA



Wednesday, March 28th





Hermanns Lectures Series 2018: Women & Writing

Location: CAPPA (ARCH) 204

Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm



Tuesday, March 20





College of Liberal Arts, Spotlight on Student Research Forum

Location: University Center, Bluebonnet Ballroom

Time: TBA

Thursday, March 15th





Estee Beck, presenting “Developing an English Studies Graduate Writing and Professionalization Course to Prepare the Next Generation of Scholars,” Conference on College Composition and Communication

Location: Kansas City, MO

Time: March 15 to March 17

Tuesday, March 6





2018 Sylvanna Falcón, presenting “Feminists Reimagining Power, ‘Human’ Rights, and the UN: Intersectionality and Cosmovisions,” 2018 Women’s History Month Lecture Series

Location: Central Library, 6th Floor

Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 6





Valerie Sperling, presenting “Feminism, Feminist Action, and Repression in Putin’s Russia,” 2018 Women’s History Month Lecture Series

Location: Central Library, 6th Floor

Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 4





Estee Beck, participant, NEH Object Lesson

Location: Tampa, FL

Time: March 4th to March 7th

Wednesday, February 28





Tim Morris, presenting “Photography, Bibliography, Digitality, Paradox,” Center for Theory

Location: TBD

Time: Noon



Friday, February 23





Department of English Graduate School Expo!

Location: Pickard Hall 113

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.



Wednesday, February 14





Lost Arts Collaborative Workshop, “Woo Like It’s the 16th Century: Making Love Poetry in Two Languages.”

Location: Fab Lab, Central Library

Time: 12:00pm