1 September 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss a chapter from Jasbir K. Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke UP, 2007). Contact Krista May for a copy of the chapter.
12 September 2008
South Asia Working Group lunch lecture: Sheela Athreya (Anthropology), "South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India," 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
23 September 2008
Film Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Joan Mellen's "Spiraling Downward: America in Days of Heaven, In the Valley of Elah, and No Country for Old Men," 6:00 p.m., Blocker 235. Screening of the films discussed in the article will be on 16-18 Sept. at 7:00 p.m. in EdMS. A copy of the article is available here.
24 September 2008
Literacy Studies Working Group seminar: R. Malatesha Joshi, "Publishing in a High-impact Refereed Journal: Some Helpful Hints" and "Is English Spelling Chaotic?," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Harrington Towers 301.
25 September 2008
Religion and Culture Working Group meeting: to discuss Pew Research Center Report "The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Reveals a Fluid and Diverse Pattern of Faith" (found at here, and "The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art Brian Steensland," Jerry Z. Park, Mark D. Regnerus, Lynn D. Robinson, W. Bradford Wilcox and Robert D. Woodberry, Social Forces, Vol. 79, No. 1 (Sep., 2000), pp. 291-318, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 308.
25 September 2008
Early Modern Studies Working Group meeting: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
26 September 2008
Africana Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Jackie Kay's Trumpet, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Blocker 235. Email Dr. Brown for a copy of the book.
7 October 2008
Queer Studies Working Group Lecture: Bernadette Barton (Morehead State University), "The Toxic Closet: Being Gay in the Bible Belt," 4:00 p.m., Rudder 301.
8 October 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss a chapter from The Toxic Closet: Being Gay in the Bible Belt by Bernadette Barton, 11:30 a.m. - 1: 30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
15 October 2008
History of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture Working Group lecture: Marilyn Stokstad (University of Kansas), 6:30 p.m. Langford C105. For additional information, contact Kevin Glowacki.
20 October 2008
New Modern British Studies Graduate Colloquium:
7:00 p.m., 235 Blocker. Contact Mary Ann O'Farrell for more information.
21 October 2008
Film Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss a selection from Stephen Prince's Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema 1930-1968, 6:00 p.m., Blocker 235. For a copy of the selection and more information, contact Galen Wilson.
24 October 2008
Women and Gender Working Group Lunch Lecture:
Featuring James M. Rosenheim (HIST), “ ‘...not to be jested with after such a Manner, as to be render’d liable to...Contempt’:  Marriage and Singleness in 1700,” 12:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
24 October 2008
South Asia Working Group meeting: Screening of Paromita Vohra's "Girls Unlimited," 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
30 October 2008
Religion and Culture Working Group meeting: work-in-progress discussion with Christina Cedillo (English), "Sister Water, Brother Fire: Gender and Androgyny in the Narrative of St. Francis," 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 308.
6 November 2008
Queer Studies Workin Group meeting: Featuring George Haggerty, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
6 November 2008
Early Modern Studies Working Group meeting: Featuring Linda Levy Peck, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 308.
18 November 2008
History of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture Working Group meeting: The first meeting of this new Glasscock Center Working Group. Coffee and pastries will be served, everyone is welcome. 8:30-10:00 am. Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, contact Nancy Klein, Department of Architecture.
18 November 2008
Film Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Chapter 2 from Lisa Kernan's Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers, 6:00 p.m., Blocker 235. For more information, contact Galen Wilson.
20 November 2008
Religion and Culture Working Group meeting: Religious Studies Minor Focus Group with Pam Matthews, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 308.
1 December 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

29 January 2009
Queer Studies Working Group lecture: to discuss Ian Halley's "Queer Theory for Men," 3:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
3 February 2009
Indigenous Studies Working Group Co-Sponsored Symposium: Songs, Stories, Signs, Survivance: A Symposium on Indigenous Discourse, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., Whitley Suite, Evans Library. For more information, contact Dr. Driskill.
6 February 2009
Women and Gender Working Group Lunch Lecture: Melanie Hawthorne (EURO), "Vous êtes ici (You Are Here): Reneé Vivien's Grave," 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
9 February 2009
Indigenous Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous People. For a copy of the book, email Dr. Driskill or Dr. Hudson.
12 February 2009
South Asia Working Group meeting: Talk by Distinguished speaker Ketu Katrak, Professor of English and Director of Asian American Studies, UC-Irvine, on Indian dance forms and the South Asian diaspora, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Her talk will be followed by a cultural program, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
12 February 2009
Film Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss two essays, "The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation" by Henry A. Giroux and "Tom Ripley's Talent" by Murray Pomerance from Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen, 7:00 p.m., Blocker 235. For copies, click here.
27 February 2009
Queer Studies Working Group Lecture: John Fletcher (Louisiana State University), "'Well, the Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark Were Very Small...': Staging Evolution and Theology at the Creation Museum," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
6 March 2009
Women and Gender Working Group Lunch Lecture Series: Cynthia Werner (Anthropology), "Gender, Migration and the Kazakh Diaspora in Mongolia.” 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
10 March 2009
Film Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Introduction and Chapter on Star Trek and Sci-fi from Jonathan Rayner's The Naval War Film (2007), 7:00 p.m., Blocker 235. For copies, click here.
23 March 2009
Religious Studies Working Group Meeting: "What could/should a religious studies capstone course look like?," 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
26 March 2009
Literacy Studies Working Group seminar: Zainab Alliath (TLAC), "Spelling of English Words by Arabic Students: Two Sides of Two Coins?," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Harrington Towers, Room 301.
2 April 2009
Film Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss "Unmasking Hiroshima: Demons, Human Beings, and Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba" from Adam Lowenstein's Shocking Representations (2005), 7:00 p.m., Blocker 235. For copies, click here.
9 April 2009
Literacy Studies Working Group seminar: Astri Yulia (TLAC), "Influence of Spoken Language on Second Language Spelling: Help or Hindrance?," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Harrington Towers, Room 301.
15 April 2009
Early Modern Studies Working Group meeting: 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
16 April 2009
Queer Studies Working Group Meeting: "Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament" (chapter 2 of Dana Luciano's Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America, New York UP, 2007). 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information.
17 April 2009
Women and Gender Working Group Lunch Lecture Series: Manuelita Ureta, "Birth Spacing, Birth Order and Educational Attainment," 12:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
17 April 2009
Literacy Studies Working Group seminar: Emily Binks (University of Hull), "A Comparison of U.S. and U.K. Pre-Service Teacher Knowledge of Research-based Reading Components," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Harrington Towers, Room 301.
20 April 2009
Religious Studies Working Group Meeting: Work-in-Progress Seminar with Kate Carte Engel,  "Breaking Ties: the SPG and the Protestant International during the American Revolution.," 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
28 April 2009
Film Studies Working Group meeting: 7:00 p.m., Blocker 235.
30 April 2009
Literacy Studies Working Group seminar: Hui-Kai Chuang (TLAC),"Does the Length of Learning English as a Foreign Language Impact on Reading Comprehension Scores in Taiwan?" 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Harrington Towers, Room 301. For more information, contact, M. Joshi.

17 January 2008
South Asia Working Group meeting:
Readings: Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 2007); Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories (New York: Grove Press, 1988) 79-113; Gita Rajan and Shailia Sharma, ed. New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. (Stanford, 2006) 1-23, 28-34. Shorter readings available here.
28 January 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Douglass Crimp's "How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic,"
30 January 2008
Africana Studies Working Group & the Empire and After Working Group joint meeting: to discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
11 February 2008
Africana Studies Working Group & American Culture Reading Group joint meeting: to discuss Adam Mansbach's The Angry Black White Boy
14 February 2008
South Asia Working Group meeting: for working paper discussion - Richa Dhanju, "Water and Empowerment: The Practical Aspects of Strategic Needs" Paper available here.
18 February 2008
Queer Studies Working Group Meeting: Ashley Currier (Sociology and Women's Studies). Paper available here.
20 February 2008
Religion and Culture Working Group meeting: to discuss the range of research interests and determine the central areas to pursue,
21 February 2008
Early Modern Studies Working Group: Lecture by Heidi Hackel (University of California-Riverside).
3 March 2008
Africana Studies Working Group & American Cuture Reading Group joint meeting: to discuss Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door.
3 March 2008
New Modern British Studies Working Group lecture:
Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto).
4 March 2008
New Modern British Studies Working Group colloquium: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto).
17 March 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Susan Stryker's "Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity" from the "Queer Futures" issue of Radical History Review (winter, 2008). Paper available here.
20 March 2008
South Asia Working Group meeting: for working paper discussion.
28 March 2008
Women & Gender Working Group Lunch Lecture: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University), "Intensive Culture: Aesthetics and Purity in the Eugenic Novels of Sarah Grand."
7 April 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: Harriette Andreadis (English) will present a work-in-progress, "Consolidating Early Modern Sexual Categories: Hermaphrodites and Other Deviants."
10 April 2008
South Asia Working Group meeting: for 2009 conference planning, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
11 April 2008
Women & Gender Working Group lunch lecture: Dominique Chlup (Educationtional Administration), "A Double Standard of Justice: Gender, Education, Resistance, and Conformity at the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women, 1932-1957."
12 April 2008
American Culture Working Group Symposium: Trash or Treasure? U.S. Cultures of Recycling, Forsyth Gallery.
21 April 2008
Religion and Culture Working Group Lecture: Nuri Tinaz, "'A Memory Mutates: The Changing Faces and Practices of Religion in Modern Turkey."
22 April 2008
Queer Studies Working Group meeting: Kristen Schilt (postdoctoral fellow, Rice University) will present her work on transmen in the workplace.