Many of you may perhaps have noticed a new face in the office. Carmen Nidey has joined us as a temporary employee and will be here through the summer. She will be taking over most of Amy's responsibilities under Gayle's supervision. Carmen is a native of Iowa City and recent graduate of the UI. While here, she majored in sociology. Please stop in and introduce yourself!
This spring, the English Department's annual Undergraduate Honors Award Ceremony is Thursday, May 1 in the South Room of the Iowa Memorial Union. (Note: This year we're going a little later to avoid Riverfest and being drowned out by the inevitable rock band practicing in the ballroom next door.) A reception will begin in the Lobby at 3:30. The Awards Ceremony will start at 4. Please mark your calenders, especially all you thesis advisors whose presentations are so important to the success of the ceremony.
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW (Rhetorics of Inquiry for a New Century)
A Symposium Sponsored by the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (featuring
members of the UI's English Department)
April 25-26, 2003
S401 Pappajohn Business Building
The University of Iowa
A great deal has happened since the University of Iowa pioneered the idea of rhetorics of inquiry in 1984 by convening an NEH-sponsored seminar on the subject. Globalization, digitalization, emphases on identity and on the shifting role of academic institutions within societies - these and other changes have affected the rhetorical situation in which inquiry is conducted. We will inquire together how these changes are suggesting new forms of critical practice and new opportunities for the application of rhetorical criticism to the production, dissemination, and reception of claims to knowledge.
SCHEDULE
Friday, April 25
3:00-3:50 Welcome
John Keller
Dean, Graduate College
“Rhetorics of Inquiry: The Very Idea”
Deirdre McCloskey
The University of Illinois, Chicago
John Nelson
Political Science
The University of Iowa
4:00-5:15: Panel I: REVISITING THE DISCIPLINES IN A DIGITAL AGE.
Assuming that our "first encounters" with digital technologies involved
applying traditional conceptual frameworks to understanding the impact of digitality
on academic disciplines, practices of inquiry, and so on, this panel features
"second encounters." The speakers and audience members will "revisit"
the promises and implications of digitalization in the humanities, sciences,
and the professions.
Alberto Segre
Management Sciences
The University of Iowa
Eric Gidal
English
The University of Iowa.
Sarah Townsend
Education
The University of Iowa
Introducer and Moderator
Thom Swiss
English and POROI
The University of Iowa.
5:30: Reception
Saturday, April 26
8:30 Coffee and donuts
9:00-10:15 Panel II: MAKING BOUNDARIES, CROSSING BOUNDARIES.
The panel will discuss the rapidly changing boundaries of the local, national, and global, and the spaces between them; as well as boundaries between academia and the public sphere, and those resulting from new, non-essentialized conceptions of gender and sexuality.
Denise Powers
Political Science
The University of Iowa.
Barbara Eckstein
English
The University of Iowa.
Aimee Carillo-Rowe
Rhetoric
The University of Iowa
Introducer and Moderator:
James Throgmorton
Regional and Urban Planning
The University of Iowa
l0:30-ll:45: Panel III: POWER AND KNOWLEDGE
The panel and audience will discuss changing views about the relationship between
knowledge and power, and how these views affect issues of performance vs. representation,
natural vs. constructed, rhetoric vs. philosophy.
Daniel Gross
Rhetoric
The University of Iowa
Vershawn Young
David Stern
Philosophy
The University of Iowa
Moderator and Introducer:
David Depew
Communication Studies and POROI
The University of Iowa.
12:00-1:00 Concluding Remarks and Open Discussion
Facilitator:
John Lyne
Communication
The University of Pittsburgh
1:00 Adjournment
Horace Porter's new book, The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League, has just been published by the University of Iowa Press. Horace is the chair of African American World Studies and a professor of English at the UI.
Praise for his book:
How to Live / What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics, a new book by Dee Morris, has just been published by the University of Illinois Press.
Eileen Gregory, author of H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines, calls Dee's book "Simply superb. Morris's style is almost as great a pleasure as the impact of her ideas. It is amazing how much she can bring into imaginative and intellectual play, holding and complicating one layer of thought with another, and building to a remarkable sense of intellectual density and expansiveness."
On Saturday, April 12, Teresa Mangum will participate in the conference Lost in Translation at Miami University. While there, Teresa will present a session that considers how ninteenth-century arguments about racial difference and colonialism, rooted in theories of degeneration and arguments for national security, became entangled with policies affecting "the aged" and with cultural representations of late life. She will also dicuss the challenge of giving the study of aging, usually the province of medicine or the social sciences, the central place it deserves in the humanities and of convincing medical researchers and social scientists of the crucial role representation plays in our experience of late life.
A journal of New Media and experimental writing and art, The Iowa Review Web is published at the University of Iowa with support from the Department of English and in collaboration with the International Writing Program and the Iowa Review.
Volume 5, Number 2 (April 2003)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/
Joseph Tabbi Feature
Joseph Tabbi is founder and editor of the electronic book review (www.altx.com/ebr).
His most recent book, Cognitive Fictions, offers a comprehensive look
at contemporary American writing in light of systems theory and cognitive science.
Read "A Media Theory of Consciousness,"
a review by Anthony Enns
Read "Writing Under Constraint,"
An Interview with Joseph Tabbi by Anthony Enns
Read Tabbi's "Overwriting"
ALL AT:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/tabbi/index.html
Talan Memmott Feature
Talan Memmott is a hypermedia artist/writer from San Francisco, California,
now at Brown University. He is the Creative Director and Editor of the online
hypermedia literary journal BeeHive.
View Memmott's Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]
Read "The nEARness/t of [IrOny] U's," an interview with Talan Memmott
by M.D. Coverley
ALL AT:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/memmott/index.html
Lori Talley and Judd Morrissey Feature
Lori Talley's work in electronic literature has been included in a number of
international exhibitions including ISEA97, P0es1s: International Exhibition
of Digital Poetry, and DAC2001. Talley teaches at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago.
Judd Morrissey received his MFA from Brown University. His digital work has been internationally exhibited; it has also been reviewed in the New York Times and the New Republic.
Read an essay by Jessica Pressman: "The Very Essence of Poetry," Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley's "My Name is Captain, Captain"
Read "Flying Blind," an Interview with Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley
By Jessica Pressman
ALL AT
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/morrissey_talley/
TIR Web presents:
New work from the current issue of the Iowa Review
Eric Pankey is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Antioch Review, the Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, and the New Yorker. He teaches at George Mason University.
Read Relics and Kindling: An Autobiography
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/ir-03/march/index.html
TIR Web presents:
New work from the current issue of 91st Meridian
Ina Grigorova (poet, fiction writer, Bulgaria; b. 1974, Sofia) improvised this short parable as part of the panel "Images of America," organized at the Iowa City Public Library last November, at the conclusion of IWP's 2002 residency.
For more of her writing, go to the "Writers" link on the IWP's home page, www.uiowa.edu/~iwp.
Read American Mammals
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/91-03/march/index.html
Lectures of interest to the English Department, Spring 2003
Featuring or hosted by members of the English Department
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 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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