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April 7, 2004
Volume 6.28 		 

 

English Symposium Series & 2004 Carl Benson Lecture Featuring Robyn Wiegman
Robyn WiegmanRobyn Wiegman, the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University will speak as part of the English Symposium Series and the 2004 Carl Benson Lecture on Thursday, April 15 at 3:00 pm at the Jule Collins Smith Museum. A reception will follow the lecture.

Wiegman earned her PhD from the University of Washington and has taught at Syracuse University, Indiana University, and the University of California, Irvine. Her presentation will be based on her recent Modern Language Quarterly publication, "On Being in Time with Feminism," which meditates on the transformations that academic institutionalization has generated for feminism as a political project and intellectual tradition. It considers the difficulties of sustaining a political intellectual life, explores questions of theory and experience, and considers the difference between disciplinary and interdisciplinary habits of thought.

View more information on Robyn Wiegman.

Undergraduate and Instructor Awards and Reception - Thursday, April 15 - 3:00 pm - Jule Collins Smith Museum

Thomas Argiro Presents Paper at International Conference
Thomas Argiro presented a paper titled, "Readings on Drugs: The Lowdown on Dope and Literary Production," at (Dis)Locating Identity in the 20th Century: An International Conference, held at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, on April 3-4.

Faculty Meeting - Today - 3:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center

Alabama Writers' Forum - Today - 4:00 pm - Pebble Hill
A meeting of members and friends of The Alabama Writers' Forum will take place today at 4:00 pm at Pebble Hill. Local authors Marian Carcache, a 2004 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship Recipient, and Jay Lamar and Jeanie Thompson, co-editors of The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers will read briefly from their works. The forum is free and open to the public. Visit the Alabama Writers' Forum website.

For more information, call the Forum office at (334) 242-4076, ext. 233, or email the Alabama Writers' Forum.

Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
Terry Gilliam was the American member of Monty Python, and this, his greatest film, is sometimes described as Monty Python’s 1984. While there are Pythonesque elements of wild humor, this story of life in an absurd, futuristic—but oddly familiar—totalitarian nightmare state is ultimately much deeper and more moving. Sam Lowry is a befuddled bureaucrat content to live in his heroic daydreams until he falls in love with a woman who may be a terrorist—defined here as someone who might bomb a shopping center or fix your air conditioning without the proper authorization forms.

View the Great Flicks Spring Schedule.

Dr. Carmen Rose Wong to Meet with Faculty and Students - Monday, April 12 - 10:30-11:00 am - 8009 Haley Center
From time to time, the Auburn Black Caucus sponsors Educational Seminars in various academic content areas. On Monday, April 12, Dr. Carmen Rose Wong will be on campus and will be available to meet with faculty and students in the English Department from 10:30-11:00 am in 8009 Haley Center. She will be giving a formal presentation that afternoon.

Dr. Wong is currently Professor of English at John Tyler Community College, where she teaches rhetoric and composition, world literature, American literature, and African American literature. She received her D.A. degree (in English) from George Mason University, her M.A. from the University of Chicago, and her B.A. from King's College in New York. Dr. Wong is the author of Black Professional Women in Recent American Fiction.

We hope that you will take time to meet Dr. Wong and make her visit to Auburn a pleasant experience.

Chris Forhan to Read at Pebble Hill - Tuesday, April 13 - 4:00 pm
Chris Forhan will read at Pebble Hill on Tuesday, April 13 at 4:00 pm. Most of the readings will be from his new book, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars.

April in Auburn STC Meeting - "Dealing with Change" - Saturday, April 17 - 9:00 am - 3110 Haley Center
This year's fourth annual April in Auburn meeting of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), Birmingham Chapter, will take place Saturday, April 17. Registration will begin at 9:00 am in 3110 Haley Center, and the meeting will conclude at 3:00 pm.

View the schedule.

Noche Lírica Poetry Recital of Spanish-Language Poetry - Thursday, April 22 - 7:00 pm - Pebble Hill
The Foreign Language Department is having a Noche Lírica poetry recital of Spanish-language poetry at Pebble Hill on Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is invited! Even if you don't understand Spanish, you can appreciate the beauty of the spoken language.

For more information, email Jana Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Graduate Awards and Reception - Tuesday, May 4 - 4:30 - 7:00 pm - Pebble Hill
Faculty, staff, and graduate students along with their families are cordially invited to attend the department's annual reception in honor of its graduate students. Graduate student awards will be presented at the reception. Drinks and light fare will be provided and there will be on-site childcare.

Please RSVP to Craig Bertolet by any medium no later than Friday, April 23, and please specify how many will be in your party and whether you will be bringing children.

Welcome Cade Michael Spradlin!
Cade Michael SpradlinThat's right folks! Jenci and Derrick Spradlin are proud parents. Here are the stats for the back of his baseball card:

Cade Michael Spradlin
Born 5:21 pm April 5, 2004
7 lbs. 14 oz.
22 inches long

Baby and Mom are both doing just fine.

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Last updated April 7, 2004


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