Wednesday, November 9, 2011

This Week on EGSA

Check out this week's GW EGSA events as well as events coming up this December.


November 14
From Jenna Weissman Joselit, GWU Judaic Studies:
In conjunction with The Merchant of Venice production and class that I'm team-teaching with Leslie Jacobson in TRDA, the law school will be holding a conversation next Monday, November 14th, at 3 p.m. in the Burns Faculty Conference Center (B505) of the law school, between Dean Paul Schiff Berman and Barry Edelstein of New York's Public Theater on the legal implications of the play.  The conversation will be moderated by The New Republic's legal affairs editor and GW law professor, Jeffrey Rosen.  It promises to be quite a lively occasion.

November 16
 "Funding Your Dissertation Research," on Wednesday, November 16th from 4:00pm to 5:00pm in Marvin Center 302. This information session is for PhD candidates focused on funding for doctoral research at the dissertation phase. The session will also touch on general funding opportunities for PhD candidates.
November 16
Join George Washington University's Visiting Artist and Scholars Committee for our last lecture of the fall series featuring art historian Mitchell Merback!  Dr. Mitchell Merback is a professor in Art History at Johns Hopkins who specializes in Medieval and Renaissance, particularly German, Central European and Netherlandish art of the 15th and 16th centuries. He plans to deliver a lecture to a GW audience entitled "From Icon to Mirror of the Soul: Ritual Reciprocity and Therapeutic Exchange in Medieval and Renaissance Man of Sorrows Imagery." Dr. Merback will visit GW on November 16 at 6:15 in Smith Hall 114.

November 18
Teaching and Pedagogy Seminar hosted by EGSA 12:30-4:30pm in Rome 771. Please join us for three sessions – 12:30-1:30pm Brown Bag Lunch Session “Teaching Composition” 2:00-3:00 “Issues in Pedagogy” and 3:30-4:30 “Using Technology in the Classroom.” Light refreshments will be available for the breaks. Watch our blog for the final schedule and speakers list. To r.s.v.p, check out our Facebook page.
December 1
Symposium on Karl Steel's important new book How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Ohio State University Press, 2011). The book is available for $40 in hardcover via Amazon, and $10 for an e-version on CD. If you plan to attend, please try to read the book ahead of time. The symposium features Julian Yates, Peggy McCracken and Tobias Menely, as well as Karl Steel. The event will take place from 4-6 PM (note change of time) in GW's Academic Center, 801 22nd St NW, Rome Hall 771. The symposium is free and open to all who wish to attend. It will be followed by an informal vegetarian dinner. The cost is $15 exclusive of beverages. If you would like to join us for dinner, you must register by Tuesday November 29 here: http://www.gwmemsi.com/p/animal-symposium-dinner-rsvp.html
December 2
 Critical Animal Studies Seminar, with all the guests from the previous night's symposium speaking about the field. You do not need to attend the Thursday symposium to participate in the Friday seminar. Some short readings will be distributed ahead of time. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend, you must reserve a spot and secure the readings by emailing Lowell Duckert (lduckert@gwu.edu) no later than Tuesday November 29. If you RSVP please come: we pay for every lunch reserved, and it is a shame when people hold a spot but do not attend the seminar.

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