Event: Shakespeare Reading and Performance Group
Location: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Albin O. Kuhn Library, 214 (The Honors College and Humanities Lounge)
The next meeting will consider the comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Please bring a copy of the play with you. Light refreshments will be served.
For further information or to convey interest, please contact Dr. Michele Osherow at mosherow@umbc.edu.
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Faculty Speaker: Gail Orgelfinger
Title: 'We Have Burned a Saint': Defensio pro populo Anglicano in the Historiography of Joan of Arc
Location: 12pm in FA440
Most considerations of how the English viewed Joan of Arc, not merely in terms of her role in the Hundred Years’ War, but also in wider cultural contexts, assume that her reputation, not the English nation’s, underwent progressive amelioration in neat chronological stages, from witch, to heroine, to saint, and even, in the words of Winston Churchill, to “an Angel of Deliverance.” But English historians also become aware quite early on of the complex rhetorical problem posed by their ancestors’ deed: How might they assign or even accept responsibility for the execution of Joan of Arc? This study examines the rhetorical stances of English writers in the larger context of the emergence of English national identity.
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Guest Speaker: Rose Solari
Location: 4 pm in AOK Library room 767.
Poet Rose Solari's first full-length collection, Difficult Weather, won the 1995 Columbia Book Award for poetry, and prompted Michael Collier to call her "a poet of passion who writes with care and precision"; her new collection, Orpheus in the Park, caused Stanly Plumly to call her "a poet of accomplished emotion, in poems thoroughly felt and wholly thought-through." She is also a playwright and is at work on her first novel, and is a long-time faculty member at the Writers' Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Her current critical work compares the influences and perspectives of U.S. and U.K. poets.
A reception with light refreshments, and a book-signing, will follow the reading. For more about Rose Solari, go to rosesolari.com.
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Performance: Taffety Punk Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
Location: 7:30 PM in Flat Tuesdays
Admission is free; performance lasts approximately one hour and is followed by a talk-back with company members.
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Location: Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor, at 4:30pm
Title: The Two Cultures Today: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on the Sciences and the Humanities
Susan Dwyer, Department of Philosophy, U of Maryland, College Park
Christoph Irmscher, Department of English, Indiana University
Manil Suri, Department of Mathematics, UMBC
Tim Topoleski, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMBC
This event is part of a Lecture Series commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow’s “Two Cultures” Lecture, sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Human Context of Science and Technology Program, the Humanities Forum and the Social Sciences Forum.
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Faculty Speaker: Helen J Burgess
Title: "Loop Layer Trigger Feed: How to Read an Electric Poem"
Location: 12pm in Fine Arts 440
John Miles Foley, in How to Read an Oral Poem, noted that the "challenge of explaining the structural and artistic dimensions of oral poetry" was matched by the "continuing challenge of teaching and lecturing", noting that his aim was to produce an "interpretive tool kit for reading oral poetry". In this paper, I will try to articulate a similar "interpretive tool kit" for electronic poetry, concentrating on several key features -- such as the loop and the layer -- that appear in electronic literature. These features, I argue, are not just structural but operational; that is, they do something: they execute, they feed on information and transform it. This liveliness of action -- this electricity -- gives provides us with opportunities to approach and identify features of electronic poems in ways that can be adapted for both scholarly and classroom use.
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Guest Speaker: Amy Scott Douglass
Title: "Gender and Ethnicity in Shakespeare for Young People from the 18th Century to Today."
Location: 12pm, TBA
Amy Scott-Douglass teaches in the English departments at University of Maryland, College Park and Georgetown University. She is the author of Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars (Continuum, 2007); the Theater section of Shakespeare after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture (Greenwood, 2006); and several essays on early modern women, and film and stage adaptations of Renaissance drama.
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