Past Events
2006-7 Events
Spring 2007
Steve McCaffery (U Buffalo)
Poetics Plus
60th Birthday/Book Launch
January 24 @ 4 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Shira Wolosky (Hebrew U)
"Foucauldian Discourses and Women's
Poetic Selves"
February 2 @ 12:30, 412 Clemens Hall
Ron Bosco (SUNY Albany)
"Where Literature, History, Philosophy and
Biography Meet: Editing Emerson's
Unpublished Manuscripts"
February 6 @ 12:30, 412 Clemens Hall
Sharon Marcus (Columbia U)
Juxtapositions Lecture Series
"Just Reading: Female Friendship and the
Marriage Plot"
February 9 @ 2 PM, 436 Clemens Hall
Camille Martin (Ryerson U) &
William Lavender (New Orleans U)
Poetics Plus - A New Orleans Reunion
February 9 @ 8 PM
Big Orbit Gallery, 30 Essex Street
Robin Schulze (Penn State)
"Marianne Moore, the Matter of Editing, and Why Editing Matters"
February 20 @ 12:30
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Dave Kress
Exhibit X Fiction Series - Reading
February 21 @ 8 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
Randy Schiff
English Faculty Seminar
"The Voice of Variance: Aesthetics and Politics in the 'Piers Plowman' Tradition"
February 23 @ 2:00 PM
436 Clemens
Miles Champion
Poetics Plus - Reading
February 23 @ 8PM
Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen Street
David F. Schmid (U Buffalo)
The Cutting Edge Lecture Series
"Homicide and American Popular Culture"
February 24 @ 10:30 AM
Screening Room, Center for the Arts
Juliet Flower MacCannell
"The Spatial Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Built Environment"
February 27 @ 4 PM, 538 Clemens Hall
Divergent Histories Colloquium
Keynote Speaker Brian McHale
March 2, Time TBA
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Exhibit X Reading by Percival Everett
March 2 @ 7 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
Wolfram Schmidgen (Washington U)
Juxtapositions Lecture Series
"Illegitimate Bodies: Mixture and Multitude in British Culture, 1660-1740"
March 5 @ 4 PM, 538 Clemens Hall
Matthew Cooperman (Colorado State)
Poetics Plus - Reading
March 8 @ 7:30 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
Joan Retallack (Bard College)
Poetics Plus - Reading
March 19 @ 8 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
Robert Daly (U Buffalo)
"Why We Have to Read This Stuff and Worse Yet, Think About it: New Work on the Practical Value of Literature and Even
Theory"
March 20 @ 4 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Pop Culture Conference: "Pop Goes the Poem"
Poetics Plus
March 23 from 10:00-4:00 & March 24 @ 8PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Poetics Plus - Reading
March 26 @ 8 PM
Big Orbit Gallery, 30 Essex Street
Cecilia Vicuña
Poetics Plus - Reading
March 27 @ 4 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Nathan Grant
English Faculty Seminar
"The Architecture of Transnational Contingencies: Freemasonry, Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste and the Legend of the
Lindaraja Mirador"
March 30 @ 1:00 PM
436 Clemens
Shelley Jackson
Exhibit X Fiction Series - Reading
March 30 @ 7 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
4th Annual Poetry Contest and Workshop for High School Students
Carl Dennis
March 31 @ 12:30-2:30
Center for the Arts
Kenneth Price (U Nebraska)
"Edition, Archive, Project, Thematic
Research Collection: What's in a Name?"
April 3 @ 12:30, 412 Clemens Hall
Elissa Marder (Emory U)
"On Psycho-Photography: Shame and
Abu-Ghraib"
April 5 @ 4 PM, 640 Clemens Hall
Jerome McGann (U Virginia)
Poetics Plus - Scholar in Residence
April 5, Talk @ 1 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Seminar 1: April 5 @ 4 PM, 438 Clemens Hall
Seminar 2: April 6 @ 2 PM, 438 Clemens Hall
Contemporary British Poets
Poetics Plus - Round table & readings by
Sam Ladkin, Andrea Brady, Peter Manson, Keston Sutherland, Robin Purves
April 12 @ 2 PM & 4 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Michael Sartisky, Director, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
"The Cultural Role in Recovery from Disaster"
April 12, Time and Location TBA
Olson Now III at Buffalo
Just Buffalo - poetry reading, open discussion, and screening of the Henry Ferrini film, Polis is This: Charles Olson and the
Persistence of Place
April 13 @ 1 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
Arthur Sze
Poetics Plus - Reading
April 17 @ 4 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Amanda Anderson (Johns Hopkins)
Juxtapositions Lecture Series
"Revisiting the Autonomy of the Literary"
April 18 @ 4 PM, 538 Clemens Hall
Lan Cao (William & Mary Law School)
"Monkey Bridge and Navigating Borders"
April 19
Time and Location TBA
Joanna Scott
Exhibit X Fiction Series - Reading
April 19 @ 7 PM
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue
Scott Herring (Rutgers)
"Critical Rusticity"
April 20 @ 3:30, 538 Clemens Hall
Stacy Hubbard
English Faculty Seminar
February 23 @ 2:00 PM
538 Clemens
Symposium on Suzan-Lori Parks
With Rena Fraden (Trinity) & Shawn-Marie Garrett (Barnard)
April 26 @ 3 PM, Location TBA
Two performances of 365 Days / 365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
April 26 @ 5:30 and April 27 @ 5:30
Television Studio, Dept. of Media Studies
Maria Farland (Fordham U)
David Gray Fellowship Lecture
"William Carlos Williams & Agrarian Inferiority"
May 7 @ 4 PM
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Humanities Institute Featured Events
James Joyce with Gusto
Gusto at the Gallery Event
February 2, 5-9 PM, Albright-Knox
Science, Technology Arts Series
Erik Bullot (National Advanced School of Art, Bourges, France)
"Short Poetic Films"
March 2 @ 8 pm
Screening Room, Center for the Arts
William Butler Yeats Birthday Celebration
April 20 @ 6 PM, Albright-Knox
