2007-08 Past Events
The Translational Humanities Project
Poet Joseph Harrison
Thursday, October 18, 2007
8 p.m. (Browsing Room, Knight Library)
Sponsored by the German and Scandinavian Department
Co-sponsored in part by the Comparative Literature Program
Poet Joseph Harrison will read from his 2003 collection, Someone Else’s Name, and from his forthcoming book, Identity Theft. Joseph Harrison’s 2003 collection, Someone Else’s Name, was chosen as one of five poetry books of the year by The Washington Post and was a finalist for the Poets’ Prize.
Whose name is this? In the poems of Someone Else's Name, the names of the poets - Frost, Donne, Burns, Shakespeare - converge with names from the bizarre annals of contemporary Americana - Donal Russell, Larry Walters, Dewitt Finley. Both lost and found within the book's forest of surrogate identities, its poems about other people and poems about other poems, the poet names and unnames, is named and unnamed. Such metaphoric play turns out, moreover, to be the way the word works in the world at large, as the poetic imagination reads the surprising correspondences of the signs and figures it finds there.
Reading Fear:
Representations of Fear in Romance Literatures
Thursday-Saturday, November 8-10, 2007
Department of Romance Languages Graduate Conference
Co-sponsored, in part, by the Comparative Literature Program
Organized by graduate students, including Comparative Literature Ph.D. students Virginia Piper and Jamie Richards.
Comparative Literature Program Ph.D. student Moshe Rachmuth will participate in Panel #2 "Fear and Humor" with a paper titled "Fear of Taking Action in Manzoni and Svevo;" Friday, November 9, 3:30-5:00 p.m., EMU, Alsea/Coquille Room
Complete Program of Events
Telling
COLT graduate student Max Rayneard has been involved with writing Telling, a play based on the experiences and stories of Eugene/Springfield veterans and their families and performed by them.
For more information, visit the Telling web site:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~vfsa/telling/project.htm
