Studies in the 20th Century

First Reading Group Meeting of the New Semester!

Angela Francis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:11 +0000

We’re proud to announce the first reading group meeting of the Spring 2010 semester will be held this Friday, March 12 at 3:00pm in Room 3307.

Follow the link to the reading, Eben Wood’s “The Private Lives of Systems: Rukeyser, Hayden, Middle Passage”

Conference – Footnotes: New Directions in David Foster Wallace Studies

Jason Nielsen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:29:51 +0000

The Twentieth Century Studies Group was listed as co-sponsor for the conference on David Foster Wallace held on Friday, November 20th, 2009, in the Segal Theater.

Full schedule listing of panels, presenters, and keynote speaker can be found here.

Reading Group Documents for November 16

Angela Francis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:49:02 +0000

Please join us on Monday, November 16 at 4pm in room 8106, when Jason Schneiderman will present on October. The reading materials are all linked below:

Taylor: “End the University as We Know It”

Lotringer: “Remember Foucault”

“Our Literal Speed”

Reading Group document for October 29th

Angela Francis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:34 +0000

Please follow the link below to download the next article for the reading group: Michiel Korthals’ “Food as a Source and Target of Metaphors: Inclusion and Exclusion of Foodstuffs and Persons through Metaphors.”

Michiel Korthals: “Food as a Source and Target of Metaphors”

Thursday, 10/29 – 4pm – Journal Reading Group Meeting

Jason Nielsen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:14:03 +0000

Thursday, 10/29 at 4 P.M. in Thesis Room will be the second meeting of the Twentieth Century Studies journal reading group.

Kristi Cassaro is presenting on Configurations and the article we’ll be discussing in relation to the journal is “Food as a Source and Target of Metaphors: Inclusion and Exclusion of Foodstuffs and Persons through Metaphors” by Michiel Korthals.

Any who can make it are welcome!

Tuesday, 10/27 – Nico Israel talk in Art History Department

Jason Nielsen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:05:21 +0000

Professor Nico Israel (Graduate Center, Hunter College) speaking today - Tuesday, Oct. 27th – in the GC Art History Department, room 3421, 6:30-8 P.M.

“Unnamable History: Beckett, Smithson, Spirals, and Global Modernity”

Friday, 10/16 – Vivian Liska – “Paul Celan’s ‘Key to Kafka’”

Jason Nielsen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:05:09 +0000

Vivian Liska
“Paul Celan’s ‘Key to Kafka’”

Liska is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is author of The Night of the Hymns: Paul Celan’s Poems, 1938—1944
[co-sponsored with Twentieth-Century Area Group; The Center for Jewish Studies; Comparative Literature]

October 16, 2009
Room 4406
2:00PM

20th C. Studies Journal Studies Group Schedule (subject to change)

Jason Nielsen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:58:48 +0000

10/1 , 4:00 PM - Joost Burgers - Journal of the History of Ideas

Thursday, 10/29, 4:00 PM – Kristi Cassaro - Configurations

Monday, 11/16, 4:00 pm – Jason Schneiderman - October

Thursday, 12/10, 4:00 PM – Tim Peterson - boundary 2

SPRING: Dates TBA:

Anne Donlon - Modernism/Modernity

James Arnett - Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature

Tim Krause - Science Fiction Studies

Judd Staley - Modern Fiction Studies

Maggie Galvan - GLQ

The Twentieth Century: Departures and Approaches – 10/09/09

Jason Nielsen — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:21:40 +0000

The Twentieth Century: Departures and Approaches

A Panel Discussion featuring Edmund Epstein, Ashley Dawson, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman

Friday, October 9, 2009
4:00PM
Room 4406

Journal reading group meeting – Thursday, 10/1

Jason Nielsen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:24:07 +0000

Our first journal reading group meeting will be held on Thursday, October 1, at 4 P.M. in the Thesis Room.

Joost Burgers will introduce us to the Journal of the History of Ideas and facilitate discussion. The article we’ll be discussing is Lloyd Kramer’s “Historical Narratives and the Meaning of Nationalism.”