Pable Picasso, "The Cream"
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To faculty and staff members who have been asked to write pieces for Out of Iowa, which is scheduled for publication in late May: Please send your writing to Amanda via e-mail or drop it off in 308 ASAP. Layout and design must begin soon to meet our deadline.
Faculty may access class lists via the Web. Please pick up the form requesting
access from Sharry. Fill out the form and return it to Sharry. She will then
obtain the DEO signature and forward the request to the registrar. You will
receive a password via e-mail to access these lists. The lists include addresses
and phone numbers of class registrants.
Patricia Foster has been selected as one of the 2003-2005 class of Dean's Scholars
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The award is for two consecutive
calander years (2003, 2004) and includes a $5,000 discretionary fund each year.
Patricia will be formally presented with the Dean's Scholar Award in the College
Honors Convocation on April 28, 2003. The ceremony will be held in the Richey
Ballroom, IMU, from 3:30-5:00.
Other 2003-2005 Dean's Scholars include Laurent Jay (Mathematics) and Michael Lovaglia (Sociology).
Lectures of interest to the English Department, Spring 2003
Featuring or hosted by members of the English Department
March 27-29, Stephanie Richards, "Southern Women," University Theatres Gallery
March 27-28, American Studies: David Hall, Ida Beam visitor, details TBA
March 28-30, Craft, Critique, Culture Conference. For more information, see: http://www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf/
April 7, 4:00 p.m. Anne Basting Davis, Director of the Center for the Study of Aging and an award winning playwright, will be here to discuss her play, Timeslips, and the theories of identity and narrative that have inspired her use of narrative as a means to communicate with Alzheimer's patients and to capture their experiences in theater. See her website, http://www.timeslips.org, for stunning photographs of the project.
April 7, 8:00 p.m. Patricia Hampl, Prairie Lights (hosted by the Nonfiction Writing Program)
April 11-12, Mid American American Studies Association and Great Lakes American Studies Association meets here, details TBA
April 14, 7:30 p.m. Todd Porterfield, Art Historian, University of Montreal, "Parisian Conquests of Egyp," 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series in E109 Art Building. Reception following.
April 18, 4:00 p.m. English Department Lecture Series: Cheryl Herr, "Smuggling Stories," Gerber Lounge
April 24, 4:00 p.m. Priya Joshi, English Department, Washington University, "Hindi Film," South Asian Seminar, Phillips Hall
April 25, 4:00 p.m. Priya Joshi, English Department, Washington University, " "Public Culture, Private Selves: The Social Lives of Institutions in Nineteenth-Century India," English Department Lectures Series and 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series. Gerber Lounge. Reception following at 1157 E. Court St.
May 2, 4:00 p.m. English Department Lecture Series: Florence
Boos, "Fanny Forrester: A Working-Class Woman Poet and the Limits of Language."
Gerber Lounge.
Reading Matters will appear on the Web and in faculty inboxes every other Wednesday as a combination of memos from the chair, announcements, deadlines, publication announcements, notices of speakers, conferences, and visitors of interest to the department. To be included in Reading Matters, announcements should be e-mailed to Amanda at am_17@hotmail.com by Monday afternoon.
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