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Calendar of Events

Spring 2013

Friday, January 25, 3:30-4:30 pm, English Department Works-in-Progress series, Laura Eidam, "Human Landscapes in London:  A Pilgrimage," Heavilon Hall, Room 102

Tuesday, February 5, 4:30 pm, Carol Anshaw, Fiction Discussion, Stewart Center, Room 320

Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 pm, Carol Anshaw, Fiction Reading, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Wednesday, February 6, 2:30 pm, Professional Writing Workshop: Applying to the PW Program Info Session, Heav 320

Thursday, February 7, 4-5 pm, Books and Coffee (Week 1) featuring Dr. Derek Pacheco speaking on Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, STEW 302/306

Monday, February 11, 10 am, Professional Writing Workshop:  Assignments in PW, Heav 320

Monday, February 11, 4:30 pm, Ely Shipley, Poetry Discussion (A Purdue Alumni Event), Stewart Center, Room 214D

Monday, February 11, 7:30 pm, Ely Shipley, Poetry Reading (A Purdue Alumni Event), Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Tuesday, February 12, 7-9 pm, Four Flavors of Pirate Movies-Day 1 (sponsored by Purdue's Medieval and Renaissance Studies), The Pirates of Penzance (a pirate musical), Heav 110

Wednesday, February 13, 7-9 pm, Four Flavors of Pirate Movies-Day 2 (sponsored by Purdue's Medieval and Renaissance Studies), Yellowbeard (a pirate comedy), Heav 110

Thursday, February 14, 4-5 pm, Books and Coffee (Week 2) featuring Dr. Phillip S. Dunston speaking on William Kamkwanba and Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, STEW 302/306

Wednesday, February 20, 12 pm, Professional Writing Workshop:  Organization and Design, Heav 320

Wednesday, February 20, 7-9 pm, Four Flavors of Pirate Movies-Day 3 (sponsored by Purdue's Medieval and Renaissance Studies), Captain Blood (a pirate classic), Heav 110

Thursday, February 21, 4-5 pm, Books and Coffee (Week 3) featuring Dr. Patrocinio P. Schweickart speaking on Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic, STEW 302/306

Thursday, February 21, 7-9 pm, Four Flavors of Pirate Movies-Day 4 (sponsored by Purdue's Medieval and Renaissance Studies), The Crimson Pirate (a pirate action adventure), Heav 110

Tuesday, February 26, 4:30 pm, Mary Szybist, Sycamore Review Visiting Editor / Writer-in-Residence, Poetry Discussion, Stewart Center, Room 320

Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 pm, Mary Szybist, Sycamore Review Visiting Editor / Writer-in-Residence, Poetry Reading, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Wednesday, February 27, 10 am, Professional Writing Workshop:  Accuracy and Precision, Heav 320

Thursday, February 28, 4-5 pm, Books and Coffee (Week 4) featuring Dr. Venetria K. Patton speaking on Nicholas Sparks’ Safe Haven, STEW 302/306

Tuesday, March 5, 1 pm, Professional Writing Workshop:  Role of Rhetoric in PW, Heav 320

Thursday, March 7, 10 am, English Department Works-in-Progress series presents:  "New Archives and Old Texts:  Methods in a Digital Age."  Professor Mike Johnston "The Aura of the Middle English Miscellany," and Professor Chris Lukasik "Breaking and Entering," Room 320, Heavilon Hall

Tuesday, March 19, 7:30 pm, Davy Rothbart, Nonfiction Reading & Spoken Word event featuring singer-songwriter Peter Rothbart and FOUND Magazine, Matthews Hall, Room 210

Tuesday, April 2, 4:30 pm, Karen Russell, Fiction Discussion, Stewart Center, Room 313

Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 pm, Karen Russell, Fiction Reading, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Monday, April 8, 82nd Annual Literary Awards featuring Mark Doty.  The following events are planned: 

4:30 pm, Reception in the Purdue Memorial Union's Anniversary Drawing Room

5:30 pm, Literary Awards banquet in the PMU North Ballroom, including a talk on craft by Mark Doty. 

8:00 pm, Reading and Talk by Mark Doty, Fowler Hall. Free and open to the public

 

Fall 2013

Friday, September 20, Leonora Woodman Memorial Lecture, precise time and venue to be announced shortly.