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Spring 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

Spring 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium
New date: Friday, April 9th, 2010
5:30-7:00 pm
Philosophy Department Conference Room (Collins Hall, Room 139)


Mark Mossa, S.J. (Theology Department)
"Abandoning the Will to Power for a Will to Community: John Courtney Murray's Family Values and the Future of the American Catholic Church"

Rebecca Bates (English Department)
"Shit Theory: Excremental Identities in Djurna Barnes' Nightwood"

Ken Kurihara (History Department)
"Celestial Visions in 16th-Century Germany: 'Windows' Into the Inner World"

Emily Mkrtichian (English Department)
"Anxious Duplicities: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Hybridity in Wilkie Collins and Matthew Arnold"


As usual, refreshments will be served. Please join us for some interdisciplinary conversation!

For more info, e-mail intergradcolloquium@gmail.com

Call for Abstracts: Spring 2010 GSA InterGrad Colloquium

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Spring 2010 GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

Friday, February 26

Graduate students are invited to

submit abstracts for papers on

any interdisciplinary topic

(e.g. a paper you are preparing for a conference, a final paper you wrote for a class, a summary of a dissertation chapter, writing samples from your grad school application etc., which could be of interest to people in departments other than your own)

• gain valuable presentation experience
• get feedback on your work from other graduate students in a supportive environment
• first-year students are encouraged to submit, as well as advanced students

Papers must have 25-minute reading time (about 10-12 pages double-spaced)

Submission deadline: Thursday, February 11

Submit abstracts of about 300 words to: intergradcolloquium@gmail.com

CFP: Sex, Death, and Boredom

SEX, DEATH, AND BOREDOM
Call For Papers

This year’s one-day Graduate English Association conference to be held on February 12, 2010 asks presenters to engage the interconnections amongst sex, death, and boredom and to challenge conventional definitions of each.

Each panel will consist of three, possibly four short ten-minute presentations followed by a twenty or thirty minute discussion amongst panelists, conference attendees, and a moderator.

In addition to traditional academic papers, the committee encourages creative literary work, performance art, and multimedia presentations.

The deadline for submissions is December 12, 2009 .

Please send papers (300-word abstracts), creative work (ten pages or three to five poems), or performance piece and multimedia presentation proposals (single document) to: sexdeathandboredom@gmail.com

For more information, please visit: www.fordham.edu/sexdeathandboredomwww.fordham.edu/sexdeathandboredom

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium - Fall 2009

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

October 28, 2009

4pm-6pm

“Gender Studies & Queer Theory”

Location: TBA

Refreshments will be served!

JESSICA THOMPSON
"Behind the Statistics: The Worldview and Realities of Poor, Young, and Unwed Mothers"

JESSICA HAUTSCH
"Journeying Even Deeper into a Fetish-Country: Erotic Objectification, Sexual Possessiveness, and the Blurring Between Object and Human in American and British Literature from the 1960s and 1970s"

WILLIAM HUGHES
"Erotic Triangles, Robinson Crusoe, and J.M. Coetzee's Foe"