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- February
- 18 Wednesday
- GSC Workshop: Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam
4:30 PM
Location: Barrs Room
Organizer: Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Contact: Graduate Office at m.daigle@neu.edu
- GSC Workshop: Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam
- 18 Wednesday
- March
- 14 Saturday
- 3rd Annual EGSA Graduate Student Conference
Figuring Genre, March 14-15, 2009
Key Note Speaker: Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota
"The Theological Origins of Totalitarianism in Sophie's Choice and Remains of the Day" & Professionalization Roundtable for Graduate Students: "On Methodology"More information can be found on the EGSA website at http://www.english.neu.edu/graduate_studies/resources/egsa/.
Location: Northeastern University
Speaker: Key Note Speaker: Michael Lackey
Organizer: English Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
Contact: EGSA / neuegsa@gmail.com
- 3rd Annual EGSA Graduate Student Conference
- 19 Thursday
- The 2009 Peter Burton Hanson Writing Competition Reception
Please help us honor our competition winners at a special reception. Refreshments will be served, and the winners will read from their work. All students, faculty, and entrants to the competition are invited to attend this festive event.
3:00 - 4:40 PM
Location: 340 Egan
Contact: English Department / 617-373-4540
- The 2009 Peter Burton Hanson Writing Competition Reception
- 27 Friday
- Graduate Language Exam - Spring 2009
A sign-up sheet will be posted on the Graduate Office door (415 Holmes Hall) at the start of the Semester. Sign up by March 13.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Barrs Room
Contact: Graduate office / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Graduate Language Exam - Spring 2009
- 14 Saturday
- April
- 03 Friday
- 2009 M.A. Comprehensive/Ph.D. Preliminary Exam
A sign-up sheet is posted on the Graduate Office door (415 HO). Please sign up by March 20. Also note the change of location. The exam will now take place in the 422 Holmes Hall computer lab.
Noon - 5 PM
Location: 422 Holmes Hall
Contact: Graduate Office / m.daigle@neu.edu - Leubner Dissertation Defense
"The Limits of My Language: Wittgenstein and Contemporary American Poetry"
3 PM - 5 PM
Location: Barrs Room/472 Holmes Hall
Contact: Graduate Office / m.daigle@neu.edu
- 2009 M.A. Comprehensive/Ph.D. Preliminary Exam
- 27 Monday
- End-of-the-Year Graduate Student Reception 2009
In addition to mingling and enjoying a cash bar & canapes, we will honor the Graduate Student Essay Award recipients, the Comprehensive Medalist, and those who have received other honors and are moving on to new studies or employment. Spring (finally!) is a festive time, so please do plan to be there to celebrate it and each other.
3:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: Varsity Club
Contact: Graduate office / m.daigle@neu.edu
- End-of-the-Year Graduate Student Reception 2009
- 03 Friday
- September
- 02 Wednesday
- 2009 New TA Introductory Workshop - Day 1
All graduate teaching assistants who are new to the Writing Program at Northeastern are required to attend this three-day, pre-semester professional development workshop.
8:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: 159 Ryder Hall
Speaker: Professor Patricia Sullivan
- 2009 New TA Introductory Workshop - Day 1
- 03 Thursday
- 2009 New TA Introductory Workshop - Day 2
8:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: 159 Ryder Hall
Speaker: Professor Patricia Sullivan
- 2009 New TA Introductory Workshop - Day 2
- 04 Friday
- 2009 New TA Introductory Workshop - Day 3
8:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: 159 Ryder Hall & 472 Holmes Hall (Barrs Room)
Speaker: Professor Patricia Sullivan
- 2009 New TA Introductory Workshop - Day 3
- 08 Tuesday
- Kick-off Workshop for Instructors and TAs
Attendance is mandatory. Compensation: $50.00. More details will be posted at http://www.english.neu.edu/writingprogram/for_faculty/ as soon as they are available.
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Raytheon Ampitheater in the Egan Center - Fall Reception 2009
At this year’s reception, we’ll be extending a special welcome to Professor Chris Gallagher.
4 - 5:30 PM
Location: Alumni Center - Graduate Student Orientation 2009
The Graduate Studies Committee will be hosting an orientation session on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Graduate faculty and staff members will be there to welcome new graduate students and address various aspects of the M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs. If you are unable to attend the orientation, please email the Graduate Office: m.daigle@neu.edu.
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: Barrs Room (472 Holmes Hall)
Speaker: Graduate Studies Committee
Organizer: Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
- Kick-off Workshop for Instructors and TAs
- 09 Wednesday
- Undergraduate and Graduate Classes Begin
- Department Meeting - September 2009
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Location: Barrs Room
Contact: Main Office, 617-373-4540
- 16 Wednesday
- Fall 2009 Graduate Programs Workshop: "Job Market & Professionalization for ABD Students"
Open to all interested students.
Noon
Location: 472 Holmes Hall/Barrs Room
Organizer: Graduate Studies Committee
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Fall 2009 Graduate Programs Workshop: "Job Market & Professionalization for ABD Students"
- 02 Wednesday
- October
- 14 Wednesday
- Department Meeting - October 2009
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Location: Barrs Room
Contact: Main Office, 617-373-4540 - Fall 2009 Graduate Program Workshop: "Professional Skills: Conference Abstracts and Talks"
2 PM
Location: 472 Holmes Hall/Barrs Room
Organizer: Graduate Studies Committee
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Department Meeting - October 2009
- 15 Thursday
- Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect
Professor Kimberly Juanita Brown will give a talk as part of the Stormy Monday Colloquia Series, organized by the Department of African American Studies. Her talk is entitled "Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect." For more information about the talk, please visit the News page.
3 PM
Location: 320 Shillman
Organizer: Department of African American Studies
Contact: 617-373-3148 / daas@neu.edu
- Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect
- 20 Tuesday
- National Day on Writing, October 20, 2009
WRITING RUMPUS ROOM: Come write with us! Bring your friends! We’ll have a variety of fun writing activities, such as magnetic poetry, 6-word memoirs, collaborative stories, comics-writing, etc. While you’re here, enjoy some snacks and get a look at Northeastern’s Writing Center, which will house the Rumpus Room.
10 AM - 2 PM
Location: 412 Holmes Hall
Organizer: Prof. Chris Gallagher, Director of the Writing Program, c.gallagher@neu.edu
Contact: For more information, call 617-373-4549. - National Day on Writing, October 20, 2009
COMMUNITY WRITING EVENT: Participate in the creation of a real-time, collaborative, multimedia text! On October 20th, we will open a shared online space in which all members of the Northeastern community are welcome to share their ideas about writing in the twenty-first century in any format and form they choose. We will provide a general prompt and then let the participants shape the emergent text together. This text will become a featured contribution of the Northeastern University Writing Program Gallery on the National Gallery of Writing.
All day
Location: http://nuweb9.neu.edu/writingday
Organizer: Prof. Chris Gallagher, Director of the Writing Program, c.gallagher@neu.edu - National Day on Writing, October 20, 2009
OPEN MIC: Come share your writing! Open to all members of the NU community. All kinds of writing welcome—stories, essays, meditations, songs, slam poetry, etc. (Time limit: 5 minutes.) Sponsored by Spectrum, NU's literary arts magazine.
3 PM - 6 PM
Location: Curry Student Center, Room 444
Organizer: Prof. Chris Gallagher, Director of the Writing Program, c.gallagher@neu.edu - National Day on Writing, October 20, 2009
WRITING WITH NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES DEMONSTRATION FOR FACULTY: This session will introduce faculty to a range or new and emerging writing technologies that are having a profound impact on how students and teachers learn and interact. Registration required at http://nuweb9.neu.edu/writingday.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: EdTech Center, 215 Snell Library
Contact: http://nuweb9.neu.edu/writingday - National Day on Writing, October 20, 2009
You are also invited to contribute to the Northeastern University Writing Program GALLERY OF WRITING: We are currently accepting submissions from anyone in the NU community for our local gallery on the National Gallery of Writing at http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/275020. For more information, please contact Prof. Chris Gallagher, Director of the Writing Program, at c.gallagher@neu.edu or 617-373-2193 or visit http://nuweb9.neu.edu/.
- National Day on Writing, October 20, 2009
- 28 Wednesday
- Fall 2009 Graduate Programs Workshop: "After the MA"
*Update 10/20*
The "After the MA" Workshop is not going to take place on 10/28. Watch for an email update later this semester, with the new date and time.
Organizer: Graduate Studies Committee
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Fall 2009 Graduate Programs Workshop: "After the MA"
- 30 Friday
- Barrs Lecture Series 2009-2010: Laura Green
Barrs Lecture Series 2009-2010 Presents:
Laura Green,
Northeastern University"Transforming Fictions: Literary Identification in the Novel of Formation (Schwartz, Dangarembga, Winterson)"
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Location: Barrs Room/472 Holmes Hall (campus map)
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Barrs Lecture Series 2009-2010: Laura Green
- 14 Wednesday
- November
- 04 Wednesday
- Fall 2009 Graduate Programs Workshop: "MA Comprehensive/PhD Preliminary Examination Workshop"
Noon
Location: 472 Holmes Hall/Barrs Room
Organizer: Graduate Studies Committee
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Fall 2009 Graduate Programs Workshop: "MA Comprehensive/PhD Preliminary Examination Workshop"
- 05 Thursday
- Professor Aljoe Participates in "Stormy Monday" Colloquia Series
The Department of African American Studies's Stormy Monday Colloquium will feature Professor Nicole Aljoe on November 5, 2009. Professor Aljoe's talk, "Remapping the Slave Narrative," will be a discussion on reimagining the slave narrative as transnational and diasporic rather than a solely US national genre.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 320 Shillman Hall
Contact: 617-373-3148 / daas@neu.edu
- Professor Aljoe Participates in "Stormy Monday" Colloquia Series
- 13 Friday
- Fall 2009 Graduate Language Exam
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Barrs Room (472 Holmes Hall)
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu - Barrs Lecture Series 2009-2010: Margaret Higonnet
Barrs Lecture Series 2009-2010 Presents:
Margaret Higonnet,
University of Connecticut
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: 315 Shillman Hall (campus map)
Contact: Graduate Programs Office / 617-373-3692 / m.daigle@neu.edu
- Fall 2009 Graduate Language Exam
- 18 Wednesday
- Department Meeting - November 2009
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Location: Barrs Room
Contact: Main Office, 617-373-4540
- Department Meeting - November 2009
- 19 Thursday
- In Memory & Legacy: The Interdisciplinarity of Civil Rights
The Humanities Center, Department of English, and Department of History are co-sponsoring a symposium to bring together an interdisciplinary panel of academic activists who focus on the challenges of research and pedagogy as they relate to the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Professors Kimberly Juanita Brown (English, Northeastern University), Peniel E. Joseph (History, Tufts University), and Charissa Threat (History, Northeastern University), who work within and beyond the parameters of the movement's ideology, will engage in a conversation about the different ways in which they enter the discourse of this historical, cultural, and political moment.
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Location: 102 West Village G
Contact: For more information about this event and the panelists, please visit: http://www.northeastern.edu/humanities.
- In Memory & Legacy: The Interdisciplinarity of Civil Rights
- 04 Wednesday
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