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Fall Events

September

  • International Student Orientation, Thursday and Friday, September 10 and 11, 2009, 101 McCormick Hall, 8:15am - 12:30pm.
  • AI Orientation to Teaching -- Fall 2009, Thursday and Friday, Setpember 10 and 11, 2009.
  • Graduate School Orientation, Tuesday, September 15, 2009, Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium, 10:00am - 1:00pm.
  • New Graduate Student Sign-In, Wednesday, September 16, 2009, Chancellor Green Rotunda - East Pyne, 9:00am - Noon.
  • Freshman Open House, Tuesday, September 15, 2009,127 East Pyne, noon-1:00 p.m.
  • Graduate Student/Faculty Reception, Monday, September 21, 2009, East Pyne Rotunda, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October

  • October 6, 2009 - Sessions on the Profession: Professor Wendy Belcher (Department of Comparative Literature) Writing and publishing journal articles.  Session begins 6:00 pm in 127 East Pyne.
  • October 15, 2009 - Princeton English Department's Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Colloquium: Professor Wendy Belcher (Department of Comparative Literature).  No Longer His Interpreter, But He': Discursive Possession, African Thought, and Samuel Johnson.  Colloquium begins at 4:30 pm, 40 McCosh Hall.
  • October 16, 2009 - Comparative Literature Lecture Series: Professor Ato Quayson (University of Toronto), The Kobolo's Poetics: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life in Accra, Ghana.  Lecture begins at Noon, 111 East Pyne.   Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Program in African Studies.
  • October 19, 2009 - Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Professor Jaques Ranciére (University of Paris-St. Denis).  Hegel and the Little Gods of the Street.  Lecture begins at 4:30 pm, 101 McCormick Hall.
  • October 21, 2009 - Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Professor Jaques Ranciére (University of Paris-St. Denis).  How Emerson Invented Modernism.  Lecture begins at 4:30 pm, 101 McCormick Hall.
  • October 26, 2009 - Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Professor Jaques Ranciére (University of Paris-St. Denis). Why Charlie Chaplin Became the Hero of the Artistic Avant-Garde.  Lecture begins at 4:30 pm, 101 McCormick Hall.

November

  • November 10, 2009 - Sessions on the Profession. Developing a statement of teaching philosophy for the job dossier by Jeff Himpele, McGraw Center.  Session begins at 4:30 pm in 127 East Pyne.

December

  • December 1, 2009 - Sessions on the Profession.  Applying for Comparative Literature and national literature jobs as a Comparative Literature PhD by Professors Daniel Heller-Roazen, Department of Comparative Literature and Meredith Martin, Department of English.  Session begins at 4:30 pm in 127 East Pyne.
  • December 8, 2009 - Sessions on the Profession.  Developing course syllabi for the job dossier by Adriana Jacobs, Department of Comparative Literature.  Session begins at  4:30 pm in 127 East Pyne.