News & Events
Upcoming Events for Fall 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 4:30 p.m. - Room C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies
David Foster will give a lecture entitled "Contesting a Revolution: Raymundo Gleyzer's Documentary México, La Revolucion Congelada"
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 8:00 p.m.
Decio Mainstage Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Junot Diaz will give a public reading of his Pulitzer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, followed by a question and answer session and book signing.
Junot Díaz is the author of DROWN and THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 5:00-6:30 p.m. - Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
Ernie LaPointe, great grandson of Chief Sitting Bull, will present his family's oral history of Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) as described in his book Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, followed by a book and DVD signing.
Wednesday, October 14 - 3:00 p.m.
Notre Dame Room, LaFortune Student Center
"Critical Disability Studies: challenging the conventions," by Professor Margrit Shildrick, a prestigious philosopher, and a gender and disability studies scholar. This talk is part of the Forum for Disability Studies Speakers Program for 2009-2010. The event is funded by a Henkels Interdisciplinary Visiting Speaker grant and sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Gender Studies.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 4:00-5:30 p.m. - Coleman-Morse Lounge
"The Future of the Major in Language and Literature" A panel discussion of the Modern Languages Association report to the Teagle Foundation on the undergraduate major in language and literature featuring the co-author of the MLA-Teagle whitepaper: Randolph D. Pope, Commomwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia. Reception to follow.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 5:00 p.m. - Medieval Institute Reading Room (715 Hesburgh Library)
Presenter: Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University
Prof. Kay has written extensively on troubador poetry and chansons de geste (including an edition of Raoul de Cambrai). Her current research is on the relationship between powtry and knowledge in late medieval France.
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 2:00 p.m. - Room 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
"Whereto Now? From messo to Messi, from Don Quixote to 2666"
Randolph D. Pope, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia
Monday & Tuesday, November 16-17, 2009
Symposium: "The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature"
McKenna Hall - More Information
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 4:30 p.m.
Department of Special Collections, Hesburgh Library
"Augustini's Erotic Rosary" Cathy Jrade, Chancellor's Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, will give a lecture entitled “Agustini’s Erotic Rosary.” Reception at 4:00 p.m. to precede lecture.
December 3, 2009 - 5:00 p.m.
119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
"Politics, Memory, Literature: The "Divisive Universality" of Nineteenth-Century Haiti" Prof. Chris Bongie, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Bongie is professor of English and author of Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (Liverpool UP, 2008)and editor of Adonis, suivi de Zoflora et de document inédits, by Jean-Baptiste Picquenard (L'Harmattan 2006), among others.
December 4, 2009 - 3:00-5:00 p.m. - Coleman Morse Lounge
Graduate Colloquium
More information forthcoming
