Summer Symposium 2008

Monday | Tuesday |Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

 

Monday, June 2
2 - 5 pm	Registration and Check-in at Stone-Davis
5 - 7 pm	Dinner in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
7:30 - 9:30 pm	Symposium Meet and Greet - Stone Davis Living Room
If you arrive after 5pm your registration/check-in materials will be available at the Stone-Davis Desk until 11 pm.
Tuesday, June 3 Poetry
7 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
9 - 10 am	Keynote Address by Patricia Meyer Spacks - "In Praise of Rereading"
10 - 10:30 am	Break and Refreshments
10:30 - 11:30 am	"The Unlikely Self: Elizabeth Bishop's 'In the Waiting Room'" James W. Noggle, Associate Professor, English
11:45 am - 1 pm	Lunch in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
1:15 - 3:30 pm	"Publishing the Personal: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Felicia Hemans and the Making of the Woman Poet in Manuscript and Print" and visit to Special Collections at the Margaret Clapp Library Alison Hickey, Associate Professor, English
4 - 5 pm	Movement Labs / Free Time
5:30 - 7:30 pm	Dinner in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
7:45 - 8:45 pm	"In Celebration of Invisible Things" Poetry Reading by Marjorie Agosin, Luelle LaMer Slaner Professor, Spanish
9 - 10 pm	Social Hour in Stone-Davis Living Room
Day Guests/Commuters: Your registration materials will be available at Collins Cinema (located adjacent to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center) between 8:30 am and 3:30 pm, otherwise they will be available for pick up at the Stone-Davis front desk.
Wednesday, June 4 Essays
7 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
9 - 10 am	"Lost and Found in Woolf's A Room of One's Own" Lisa A. Rodensky '84, Assistant Professor, English
10 - 10:30 am	Break and Refreshments
10:30 - 11:30 am	"The Silences of History: Louise d'Alq's Forgotten Anthology of French Women Writers" Vicki Mistacco, Professor, French
11:45 am - 1 pm	Lunch in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
1:15 - 2:15 pm	"Women and Translation: Some Generalizations and a Story" Larry Rosenwald, Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of English
2:30 - 3:30 pm	"'My Ghostly Wanderings': M.F.K. Fisher's A Map of Another Town and the Haunting of Aix-en-Provence" Marilyn Sides, Senior Lecturer, English
4 - 5 pm	Movement Labs / Free Time
5:30 - 7:30 pm	Dinner in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
7:45 - 8:45 pm	"The Greatness of Doris Lessing: One View" A casual discussion with Tim Peltason, Professor, English, and Director of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities
9 - 10 pm	Social Hour in Stone-Davis Living Room
Day Guests/Commuters: Your registration materials will be available at Collins Cinema (located adjacent to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center) between 8:30 am and 3:30 pm, otherwise they will be available for pick up at the Stone-Davis front desk.
Thursday, June 5 Novels
7 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
9 - 10 am	"Intimacy and Repartee in Jane Austen and her Romantic Heirs" Tim Peltason, Professor, English, and Director of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities
10 - 10:30 am	Break and Refreshments
10:30 - 11:30 am	"Jane Eyre: Writing and Rebellion" Pamela Starr Bromberg ’68, Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Director of Graduate Program in English at Simmons College
11:45 am - 1 pm	Lunch in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
1:15 - 2:15 pm	"Marguerite Duras's The Lover: 'A Pleasure unto Death'" Michele M. Respaut, Professor, French
2:30 - 3:30 pm	"A Reading from The Pirate's Daughter" Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Senior Lecturer, English
4 - 5 pm	Movement Labs / Free Time
6 pm	Reception
7 - 9 pm	Closing Banquet
Day Guests/Commuters: Your registration materials will be available at Collins Cinema (located adjacent to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center) between 8:30 am and 3:30 pm, otherwise they will be available for pick up at the Stone-Davis front desk.
Friday, June 6
7 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Stone-Davis Dining Hall
9 am	Stone-Davis Check-out
1 pm	Reunion Check-in

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*This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change.

For more information about Symposium, contact Katie O'Hara, Director of Special Programs at 781-283-2392.