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Turnstyle Reading Series
RICK PEARSE, EMILY RABOTEAU, and others
March 10th 2010, Wednesday, 6:30pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Writers and graduating students from the four MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for readings of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at the Graduate Center. Join Rick Pearse, Emily Raboteau, and others for an evening of cross-campus, cross-genre readings.
Co-sponsored by the CUNY MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and the Office of Academic Affairs
Nancy K. Miller
An introduction to “Rites of Return” and “I Found my Family in a Drawer”
March 11th 2010, Thursday, 6:30pm, Room 8106
Join Nancy K. Miller for a discussion of her recent work on the poetics and politics of rites of return alongside her own work on her family history. She is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY, co-author (with Marianne Hirsch of Columbia University) of Rites of Return, and author of, most recently, But Enough About Me and Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death.
Suggested reading is available here to registered seminar participants.
Fashion + Film: 1960’s revisited
March 12th 2010, Friday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
For a full schedule and venues, please download the Program (PDF).
On the fiftieth anniversary of ground-breaking films such as La Dolce Vita, Breathless, and L’Avventura this conference brings together a group of international scholars to revisit this revolutionary cinematic era through the lens of fashion and design. Speakers will include Adriana Berselli, the costume designer who worked with Michelangelo Antonioni on L’Avventura; Stella Bruzzi, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University; Paola Colaiacomo, Professor of English, University of Rome, La Sapienza; Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh; Pat Kirkham, Professor, Center for the Study of Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Bard College; Sam Rohdie, Professor of Film, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Cohen, Assistant Professor of Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; Vincenzo Maggitti, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Stockholm University; Sonya Topolnisky, PhD candidate, Center for Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Bard College; Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Associate Professor in Film Studies at Stockholm University; Louise Wallenberg, Director, Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University; Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor of Art History; and Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center.
Co-sponsored by Center for Fashion Studies at the University of Stockholm, and Concentration in Fashion Studies, the Italian Specialization, Women’s Studies, Film Studies, Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jonathan Flatley
"Finally Got the News: Newspapers and Collective Affect from Lenin to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers"
March 12th 2010, Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Room 8106
Jonathan Flatley is Editor of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, and Associate Professor in the English Department at Wayne State University. His book Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism, was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. He is currently working on two other book projects, one on Andy Warhol, likeness and affect and the other on post-socialist collectivity.
Suggested reading is available here to registered seminar participants.
Beats and Beyond: Documenting the Poets of the 60’s
March 15th 2010, Monday, 6:30pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Join Cecilia Vicuña, Melanie La Rosa, and Henry Ferrini for a conversation about films that bring into cinematic focus the untold histories of a radical literary era. The poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, editor of The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry and a contributor to El Corno Emplumado, will comment on “El Corno Emplumado - A Story From the Sixties,” which follows its filmmakers on a journey across the United States to Mexico and into the memories of the poets who 40 years earlier had been involved in the bilingual poetry magazine El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn. Melanie La Rosa will discuss “This Bird Flies Backward,” her work-in-progress about the life and work of poet Diane di Prima; and Henry Ferrini will talk about his “Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place.” Excerpts of films will be screened.
Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages and the Doctoral Students Council
