Last Update: 3/29/13
Lissa Paul, Lecture: "In Search of Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Or, the Trials and Tribulations of Writing a Life"
Wed, May 1, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
SSE 1401
The National Center for the Study of Children's Literature and the Department of English & Comparative Literature are proud to co-sponsor Professor Lissa Paul's lecture on Eliza Fenwick. Paul's lecture concerns her latest book project, which she originally intended to be a standard biographical “life” of Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840), what one might call a literary biography. However, over the course of her research and writing, Paul realized that a Possession-like narrative, something that entwines Fenwick's life story with Paul's own search for that life, provided the better structure. As Fenwick’s story is an adventure story, an immigrant’s story, a mother’s story, a writer’s story, and the story of an abolitionist slave-holder, its narrative structure is fraught, especially as there are missing pieces and complicated ethical questions to negotiate. Paul's talk is an attempt to navigate the Scylla and Charybdis of writing Eliza’s life. It is a public lecture, for students, faculty, and our community.
Kenneth Kidd, Lecture: Philosophy for Children
Thu, April 11, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
HT 140
Professor Kid's presentation, Philosophy for children, is this year's annual talk hosted by The National Center for the Study of Children's Literature and the Department of English & Comparative Literature. Serving faculty, students, and our local community, these public lectures raise important issues in the study of childhood and children's culture and literature. Professor Kidd's discussion emerges from his latest book project, in which he investigates childhood agency in relation to a society that simultaneously reveres and condescends to children. He asks what a "philosophy for children" might look like, especially as our notions of childhood are provided for children by adults, and all too rarely emerge from children themselves.
Children's Book Review Marathon
Our Children's Literature program is hosting its' 10th Semi-Annual Children's Book Review Marathon on campus, Saturday, March 16, from 12:30-3:30. Nineteen volunteers consisting of current and past graduate students, SDSU faculty, city librarians, and teachers will be on hand to review books. The goal is to review at least 26 books on Saturday, with more reviews coming in over the next few weeks. The book reviews will be published on the program's book review blog.
Following the reviews, books will be donated to the campus library, the campus Children's Center, and to local schools districts. The downtown library's Caldecott Award Committee (for the best illustrated children's book) has graciously donated approximately 50 books to our cause.
Visit the SDSU Children’s Literature Reviews blog to read their reviews.
Lectures
Thirtieth Anniversary Fiction International Celebration
Featuring Hal Jaffe, Katie Farris, and MFA Fiction students,
March 1st @ 7pm
Museum of the Living Artist (1439 El Prado, Balboa Park)
Bad Girl and Sick Boy: the Art, Life and Times of Sheree Rose and Bob Flanagan
Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m.
Love Library, Room 430
Sheree Rose, first known for her extensive visual art, poetry, and performance collaborations with late partner, Bob Flanagan, will select a series of work from her more than 30 years as a performance artist. While the work was known for being controversial, subversive, explicit, and "not for the faint of heart," it is also notable for its intelligent and playful examination of voluntary and involuntary pain, as well as its incredible humor and compassion. Join us for an evening of screenings and discussion.
Sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program (MALAS), and the Department of Theater, Television, and Film.
Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series
The Living Writers Series began at San Diego State University over twenty-five years ago, and thus has achieved recognition as one of the longest continuously running reading series in the nation. Shortly before the new millennium, Mr. Hugh C. Hyde generously endowed the reading series, thereby ensuring the continuance of its mission.
Through the years, the Series has brought to San Diego prominent and emerging poets and writers for readings, workshops, salon discussions, and classroom lectures such as Nobel-laureate Derek Walcott and other acclaimed writers including Tillie Olsen, Philip Levine, Gary Snyder, Luis Alfaro, and Wanda Coleman. Each semester, the Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading features women of color writers including Mitsuye Yamada and Karen Tei Yamashita.
Our events are free and open to the public. Evening readings usually take place at 7pm in Love Library 430. For more information and to join our mailing list, please contact Meagan Marshall at marshall_Meagan@yahoo.com or "like" us on Facebook.
Spring 2013
Katie Farris: Wednesday, February 6th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Sallie Lowenstein: Wednesday, March 6th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Featured Discussion: An Evening with Performance Artist, Sheree Rose: Wednesday, March 13th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Featured Symposium: Occupy the Page: Literary Criticism and Activism, featuring: editor and anthologist, Dominic Luxford, and poet and translator, Alissa Valles: Wednesday, March 20th, Editor’s Panel at 2 p.m. and reading at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading presents: Mariela Griffor: Wednesday, April 10th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Christopher Merrill: Wednesday, April 17th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Forrest Gander and Pura López-Colomé: Wednesday, April 24th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Harold Jaffe: Wednesday, May 1st at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Fall 2012Joanna Brooks: Wednesday, September 12th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Jeff Biggers: Wednesday, October 3rd at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Marilyn Chin: Wednesday, October 17th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading presents, Camille Dungy: Wednesday, October 24th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
A Celebration of SDSU MFA Alumni, featuring: Chris Baron, Heather Eudy, Cali Linfor, and Sabrina Youmans: Wednesday, November 7th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
Lance Olsen: Wednesday, November 28th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430.
For more information, please visit http://mfa.sdsu.edu/events.htm
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