Upcoming EGSA and Campus Events

Thank you to all who were able to attend our Second Annual EGSA Symposium last Friday. It was a great opportunity to catch up and see current work in our department. There are more professional and academic events to come this semester, and below is a short list of opportunities. We would like to highlight our upcoming Professional Development Event: Summer Jobs which will be held this Thursday, Feb. 16 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. This session is to discuss potential summer jobs which are suited to English Graduate students. It can be tough finding a good job for only four months out of the year, and one that helps you financially as well as professionally, but we have polled our peers for a wide variety of summer job options. Come for an informal chat (and delicious cookies!) this Thursday in Rome 771. 

Februrary 16 EGSA Professional Development Event: Summer Jobs. Come join us for a conversation about how to fund your summer months with a wide variety of job options that will help you both financially and professionally. Delicious cookies will be provided.

February 16 Laura Lunger Knoppers (Penn State): "Reconsidering Luxury in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of John Evelyn" Thursday, February 16th, 5:30pm Georgetown University Lannan Center New North 408

 March 2 The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis And The Columbia Academy of Psychodynamics present the 2012 Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Lecture “A Refugee from Chestnut Lodge Receives Asylum at the Folger Shakespeare Library: New Discoveries about the Authorship of Shakespeare’s Works”

Speaker:  Richard Waugaman, MD* 

Friday, March 2, 2012 7 pm – 9 pm

Chevy Chase Women’s Club

7931 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland Free to Students Register at www.wcpweb.org

March 8 David Loewenstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “John Milton, William Walwyn, and the 'Terrors' of Heresy in Seventeenth-Century England” Thursday, March 8th, 5:30pm Georgetown University Lannan Center New North 408

 March 25 MEMSI is holding an interdisciplinary, transhistorical symposium on "Cultural Translations: Medieval / Early Modern / Postmodern" to be held at George Washington University in D.C., 9:30 am - 4:00 pm, Sunday, March 25, 2012. 

Free and open to the public. Please stay tuned for updates on the venue and lunch. 
 Website: http://www.gwu.edu/~acyhuang/culturaltranslations.html
 PRESENTATIONS
 Medieval
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Toronto, English and Medieval Studies): Translating the Past: World Literature in the Medieval Mediterranean
Marcia Norton (GW, History): topic to be announced
 Early Modern
Barbara Fuchs (UCLA, English and Spanish & Portuguese): Return to Sender: "Hispanicizing" Cardenio
Christina Lee (Princeton, Spanish & Portuguese): Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish Epic
 Postmodern
Peter Donaldson (MIT, Literature): The King's Speech: Shakespeare, Empire and Global Media
Margaret Litvin (Boston, Arabic and Comparative Literature): topic to be announced

 April 12 Tobias Gregory (Catholic University of America): “Paradise Regained and Late Miltonic Values” Thursday, April 12th, 5:30pm Georgetown University Lannan Center New North 408