The Ninth Annual Department of English Colloquium

Brave Old Worlds

Monday, March 7th
4:30 p.m.
Leacock 232

Free and Open to the Public
wine, coffee, cookies, and sandwiches

4:30 to 5:00 Patrick Neilson: “’Why This is Hell, Nor am I Out of It’: Scenography of the Offstage”

5:00 to 5:30 Yael Halevi-Wise: “Who Cares about the Sephardic Experience? Spanish-Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination: A Brief Overview”

5:30 to 6:00 Ken Borris: “Hiding in Plain Sight: Plato and The Phaedrus in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender”

- 6:00 to 6:15 Coffee Break -

6:15 to 6:45 Ara Osterweil: “Taxi Driver: The Pornography of Violence”

6:45 to 7:25 Peter Gibian: “Portraits of Expatriate Experience: Travelers and Locals in Sargent's Cosmopolitan Aestheticism”

Wine reception to follow

For further information please contact Maggie Kilgour (maggie.kilgour [at] mcgill.ca) or Monica Popescu (monica.popescu [at] mcgill.ca)