Calendar of Events
Calendar of Events
Calendar of Events
Monday, November 16, 2009
4:30 pm, VAC-Beam Classroom
Reception to follow
Open to the public
"Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, Hammams, and other Tropes"
Joseph A. Boone is Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and is currently a research fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, NC. He is the author of four books, including Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, Go West and Generations, Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism, and Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. Professor Boone is currently researching representations of Homosexuality in the Middle East.
Tuesday November 17th at 4 pm Professor Boone is conducting a seminar, but this is not open to the public.
Sponsored by Lectures and Concerts, Art Museum/Art History, the English Department, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Africana Studies
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
The English Department cordially invites you to a book release celebration and discussion with David Collings, Professor of English.
In Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny, c.1780-1848 (Bucknell University Press, 2009) Professor of English David Collings examines the war between state power and the counter-power of popular collective action in England during the decades surrounding 1800. Collings argues that public protest against the reigning political body was an accepted part of everyday practice in the years leading up to the French Revolution
Copies are available at Bowdoin Bookstore
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall
4:15 p.m. Reception to follow.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Tolkien Lecture - Michael Drout
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Open to the public
"Fantastic Language: Tolkien and Philology"
Please join us as Prentice Professor of English at Wheaton College, Michael Drout, examines how J.R.R. Tolkien made worlds out of words such as Hobbit, Entmoot, mathom, coomb, Mordor, eyot, Woodwose, mithril, pipeweed -- some of these words had been in English for centuries; others Tolkien invented.
Presented by Lectures and Concerts, Africana Studies, and the Departments of English and Romance Languages