Visiting Speakers Schedule for Fall
2011
Sept. 20, 5pm, ARTS 160: Gary Geddes, author,
discussing his new book:
“Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for
Justice and Redemption in Africa”
(creative writing, poetry, African literature, postcolonial
theory)
Nov. 16, 4pm, ARTS 145: Rebecca Schneider, Theatre Arts and Performance
Studies, Brown University
“Acting in Ruins: One Late Capitalist and His Later Capitalist
Double”
(drama and theatre, performance studies, reenactment in
performance, cultural studies)
Nov. 17, 12:30 pm, LEA 927: Ellen Gainor, Department of Theatre, Film and Dance,
Cornell University (co-sponsored by IGSF)
“So You Think You Can Dance Straight? Same-Sex Ballroom and
Reality Television“
(queer theory, drama and theatre, performance studies, cultural
studies, gender studies, media theory)
Nov. 21, 4:30 pm, ARTS 145: John Jacob Spector
Lecture: Wai Chee Dimock, English and American Studies, Yale
University
"Bodies at War: Baghdad, Dresden, New York City”
(world literature, American literature, critical theory)
Related Fall Events:
Sept. 22, 6pm, Goethe Institute (418 Sherbrooke St.
E) Allison Griffiths, Communications Studies,
Baruch College, CUNY
Keynote Speaker, Europe on Display/ Exposer L’Europe
(presented by the Project on European Cinema, co-sponsored by the
Department of English): “Tableau Mort: Capital
Punishment, Spectacle, and Cinema”
(film studies, cultural studies)
Sept. 27, 5:30pm, Moyse Hall: “The Public
Life of Arts and Ideas”, presented by IPLAI, with Kent Stetson,
Margie Gillis, Darin Barney and Desmond Manderson, moderated by
Paul Yachnin.
(fine arts, dance, drama and theatre, law, humanities)
Oct. 11 (time, place and title TBA), Heather Love,
English, University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by IGSF,
Media@McGill and AHCS.
(queer theory, affect theory, disability studies)
Nov. 4, 3pm (tentatively), Thompson House:
Roderick Ferguson, American Studies, University
of Minnesota
Keynote speaker, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies
biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Department of English),
““The Reorder of Things: On the
Institutionalization of Difference”
(queer theory, critical race studies, gender studies, cultural
studies)
Nov. 4, 3 pm (tentatively), Thompson House:
Diana Brydon, English, Film and Theatre,
University of Manitoba.
Keynote speaker, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies
biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Department of English),
Title TBA
(cultural studies, globalization, Canadian Studies)
Fall Shakespeare Team events: (seminar room,
2nd floor, 3475 Peel
St.)
Sept. 21 7PM Galen Strawson, “Against Narrativity”
Oct. 25 5PM (in Arts West 25): Patrick Neilson, workshop on
All’s Well That Ends Well
Nov. 15 5pm Mustapha Fahmi, TBA
Coming Up in Winter 2012 (more info to
come)
Jan. 25 PhD Colloquium
Jan. 31 Reynolds Visiting Artist Erin Mouré
(workshops with Mouré will be held on Feb. 3 and 4)
Feb. 28 Faculty Colloquium