As part of the UW–L English Department’s 2007–2008 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series, Dr. Don LaCoss (History Dept) will present “Arabic Surrealism, German Romanticism & the British Occupation of Cairo, 1941-1946.”
The presentation takes place Friday May 2, Room 207 Wimberly Hall, 2:30pm-3:30pm.
All are welcome to attend our final colloquium this year.
David Hart
Colloquium Organizer
VOLLEYBALL
POTLUCK
STORY and POETRY READINGS
MAY 2 -- 5pm-8pm
MYRICK PARK (by the cemetery)
Join us at Myrick Park on Friday, May 2nd at 5pm for English Club's semi-annual students vs. professors tournament. Bring a dish to pass and something to read to the crowd. We’ve got the big shelter reserved, so rain is not a concern. Even if you don’t want to play volleyball or read something aloud, still come and hang out with us before school lets out for the summer. Hope to see you there!
Short story writer, novelist, poet, playwright, and creative nonfiction writer Joseph Bathanti will conduct a reading, discussion, and book signing, Wednesday, April 23,
5 p.m., Room 140, Cowley Hall, on the UW-L campus.
Bathanti is the author of four books of poetry, two novels, a short story collection, a play, and numerous nonfiction pieces. His most recent work, the short story collection, The High Heart, won the 2007 Spokane Prize. His collection of poetry, This Metal, was nominated for The National Book Award. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in both short fiction and creative nonfiction. His novel, Coventry, won the 2006 Novello Literary Award, and his novel, East Liberty, won the Carolina Novel Award in 2001. He won the 1997 Oscar Arnold Young Award from The North Carolina Poetry Council. His one-act play, Afomo, won The Wachovia Playwrights Prize. He has received the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Linda Flowers Prize, and the 2007 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Bathanti moved to North Carolina as a VISTA Volunteer in 1976 to work with prison inmates. Presently, he is Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
In this beautifully written and deeply moving collection of linked short stories, Joseph Bathanti gives us all the sad trappings of working-class life--the Rolling Rock beer, the Pall-Mall cigarettes, the plastic lawn chairs, the beat-up Bonnevilles and Impalas. Yet the world of The High Heart never feels depressing. It's impossible not to cheer on young Fritzy as he struggles to make sense of his eccentric parents, the ever-bickering, memorable couple known as Travis-and-Rita.
--Rita Ciresi, author of Pink Slip and Sometimes I Dream In Italian
As part of the UW-L English Department's 2007-2008 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series, Dr. Karen Stuart will present
"Robert Musil's Essayism: Ethics and the Politics of Writing."
The presentation takes place Friday April 4, Room 207 Wimberly Hall, 2:30pm-3:30pm.
All are welcome to attend.
Fiction Reading, Discussion & Book Signing with Shauna Singh Baldwin
On Wednesday, March 26th at 5 pm in Port O' Call, Shauna Singh Baldwin, award-winning novelist and short-story writer will read from her latest short story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan. Born in Canada to Indian parents, Ms. Baldwin grew up in New Delhi, and has made Milwaukee her home for the past twenty years. Her fiction has topped best seller lists in Canada, India, and elsewhere, and has earned glowing reviews in the New York Times and the Washington Post as well as high praise abroad. Her first novel, What the Body Remembers, won the 2000 Commonweath Prize for Best Book in the Canadian-Caribbean region; it has since been translated into fourteen languages. Her collection, English Lessons and Other Stories, won the 1996 Friends of American Writers prize; and her second novel, The Tiger Claw, was short-listed for the 2004 Giller Prize and shared the short list for India's 2006 Hutch Crossword Award with works by V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. The author's website: www.shaunasinghbaldwin.com
Sponsored by the UW-L English Department.
Contact: Matthew Cashion (cashion.matt@uwlax.edu).
As part of the UW–L English Department’s 2007–2008 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series, Patrick T. Randolph will present
“Conversation Analysis: The Awakening of Talk-In-Interaction Consciousness."
All are welcome to attend.
A competitive book test
Fourth graders from Emerson Elementary School in La Crosse competed against other fourth graders from the district in the annual “Battle of the Books” in Wimberly Hall Feb. 8. The elementary students read a series of books throughout the school year and participated in discussions with students from UW-L Professor Richard Gappa’s children’s literature class.
During the campus competition, UW-L students worked with the children and teachers conducting a competition regarding the books the children read. The previous week, fifth graders from the school district competed. The partnership enables UW-L students to interact and gain practical experience working with city students.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Bradley Butterfield (English)
will be reading from his memoir, Idiot Boys,
in room 337 Cartwright from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Dean Stroud and Carla Graham will present "Religion, Empire and Realism in Passage to India and Effi Briest."
The presentation takes place Friday February 1, Room 207 Wimberly Hall, 2:30pm-3:30pm.
The event is part of the UW-L English Department's 2007-2008 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series.
*All are welcome to attend.*
Dr. Mary Davidson and her students will give a presentation titled “Syllabus without Margins”; the presentation will include an oral poetry reading by Dr. Davidson’s ENG 449 students.
This is part of the UW–L English Department’s 2007–2008 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series.
The event takes place Friday December 7, Room 207 Wimberly Hall, 2:30pm-3:30pm.
*All are welcome to attend.
