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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Wednesday, 1/1
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House closed
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/2
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House open 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 1/3
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 1/4
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House closed
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 1/5
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House closed
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 1/6
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 1/7
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 1/8
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/9
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 1/10
- Winter Break - Kelly Writers House hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 1/11
- Kelly Writers House closed.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 1/12
- Kelly Writers House closed.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 1/13
- First Day of Classes!
- Kelly Writers House resumes normal hours.
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 5:15 to 7:15 PM in Room 202: The monthly meeting of the Penn & Pencil Club, the writing group for employees of the University and Health System. For more information contact: john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 1/14
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 1/15
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/16
- 5:30 PM: A talk by Flagg Miller, co-sponsored with The Department
of Anthropology and The Middle East
Center.
Flagg Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and is in the process of writing a book entitled The Moral Resonance of Media: The Circulation of Cassette Poetry in Modern Yemen. His book examines discourses of circulation that engage poets, singers, and audiences as new media technologies are brought to political versification in Yemen. Much of his research explores how the problematic of circulation provides a valued moral framework for enabling cultural and political change. He has published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of Women's History, among other venues. A linguistic anthropologist, Dr. Miller has lived and studied in the Middle East and North Africa for over four years, including Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 1/17
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 1/18
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 1/19
- Rebroadcast of Live at the Writers House program from Sunday, November 17, 2002. Live airs on 88.5 WXPN and will
be featuring poets John Timpane, Deborah Burnham, Bob Perelman, Harriet Levin Millan, Hassen, writer Joey
Sweeney & musical guest Kenn Kweder.
John Timpane is the author of Poetry for Dummies, and Commentary Page editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Deb Burnham is from northeast Ohio though she's lived in Philadelphia her whole adult life. She directs the expository writing program at Penn, and teaches poetry and prose writing to high school kids, college students and adults. Many of her poems have praised or wondered about city life, but her recent work is a bit less attached to place. She's not sure this is a good thing. She also writes fiction, including a novel set in the Viet Nam era, and essays, which are sometimes a bit cranky.
Bob Perelman is the author of numerous books of poetry, including *The Future of Memory* and *Ten to One* (selected poems); and two books of criticism, *The Marginalization of Poetry* and *The Trouble with Genius*. *Playing Bodies*, a poem/painting collaboration with painter Francie Shaw will be published this coming spring. He teachers at Penn.
Harriet Levin Millan is the author of The Christmas Show, (Beacon Press, 1997), winner of the Barnard New Women Poet's Prize, selected by Eavan Boland, and winner of The Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. New work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Pennsylvania English, and this month's online Electronic Poetry Review. Was a PEW disciplinary winner in Poetry. Presently, teaches writing at Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania.
Hassen writes poetry & fiction & lives near Philadelphia. Poems have appeared in Skanky Possum, Nedge, Hammers, & Barque Press' 100 Days anthology.
Joey Sweeney has been writing about music in fits and starts - but mostly fits - since 1988, when he landed a gig as a cub reporter for the long-missed B-Side Magazine. Sensing that a Cameron Crowe-esque boy-genius-deflowered-by-Fairuza-Balk fate would most certainly elude him in that line of work, he turned to his other, earlier love: making music of his own. Throughout the early '90s, Sweeney led the beloved Barnabys, and followed up that band with two critically acclaimed solo records before returning to writing about music and popular culture full time, winning honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) and the Pennsylvania Keystone Awards. When, in 1998, director Hal Hartley tapped him for a track to use in the movie The Book of Life, it was just the kick in the ass Sweeney needed to get back to making music. Since then, he's led the appropriately named The Trouble With Sweeney, whose debut album Dear Life won critical acclaim everywhere from Spin to Copper Press - all while stalling the writing process for what might, after all, become his first book of essays, tenatively titled Your Money Is Like Candy From Space. In May, he was awarded top honors for music criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), and also appears in Da Capo Press's Best of Music Writing 2001, edited this year by Jonathan Lethem. He is currently hard at work on a record of new songs.
Kenn Kweder is a product of a working-class neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia. He made his mark in the mid-1970's with his storied band, the Secret Kidds. Combining sometimes brittle, sometimes frightening visions with the awesome rock 'n' roll of the Secret Kidds, Kweder single-handedly created Philadelphia's original rock music scene and paved the way for the emergence of any number of Philly-based acts who have achieved anational profile. Though courted by major record labels, Kweder didn't find fame and fortune worth the sacrifices in style and temperament that the record companies demanded he make. Thus, for the past 30 years, Kweder has continued playing writhing and performing in at least 20 different rock bands he helmed, putting on live performances, which have been described as "a circus," "a riot," and even "a religious experience." Kenn Kweder has transformed that energy, intelligence, and passion onto at least 11 albums and CD's that reaffirm his unique position in Philadelphia music.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 1/20
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (observed). No Classes
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 1/21
- 7:00 PM: Three Contemporary Women Writers,
Brenda
Coultas, Deborah Richards, and Kathy Lou Schultz (also here)
will share their work.
Before becoming a poet, Brenda Coultas was a farmer, a carny, a taffy maker, a park ranger, a waitress in a disco ballroom, and the second woman welder in Firestone Steelšs history. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Conjunctions, Epoch, Fence, and Open City. She lives one block from the Bowery in New York City.
Deborah Richards is a black Londoner currently residing in Philadelphia. Her work has appreared in Chain, HOW2, XCP, Nocturnes, and is forthcoming in Callaloo. Her first book of poetry, Last One Out, is forthcoming from Subpress.
Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of three collections of poetry and experimental prose: Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002), Genealogy (a+ bend press, 1999), and Re dress (San Francisco State University, 1994). Re dress was selected by Forrest Gander for the Michael Rubin Award. Kathy Lou received her MFA in poetry and American literature from San Francisco State University, and is currently a third-year doctoral student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-edits the literary arts journal Lipstick Eleven. Visit her homepage at: http://www.english.upenn.edu.
To hear this program as a RealAudio file, click here. Kathy Lou Schultz was introduced by Writers House Program Coordinator, Thomas Devaney.
This program was recorded and is available in mp3 format through PENNsound.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Dissertation Writing Group - For more information, contact Lalitha Vasudevan at lmv@dolphin.upenn.edu.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 1/22
- 6:00-7:30 PM in the Dining Room: A meeting of the English Undergraduate Advisory Board (Myra Lotto:
mlotto@english.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Mellon Writing Group (Jennifer Snead: jsnead@english.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/23
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing presents Alphonso
Lingis: Unintelligible Lines, Unknown Paths
On the occasion of encounters in Peru and in Madagascar, the speaker finds that the mind of another may be definitively incomprehensible. Today we understand "the mind of God"---the origins and workings of the whole physical universe---but not the mind of another of our own species. Can we then understand fear, hatred, terror? In trust, one attaches to someone whose words or whose movements one does not understand adequately or at all, whose reasons or motives one does not see. This is a fundamental inclination of the human mind. Is not trust even more fundamental than belief in what we do know?
Alphonso Lingis is professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He has published a number of texts including Excesses: Eros and Culture (1984), Phenomenological Explanations (1986), Deathbound Subjectivity (1989), The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994), Abuses (1994), Foreign Bodies (1994), Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility (1995), and Dangerous Emotions (1999). His work adeptly encompasses both personal experience and modern philosophy, drawing from phenomenology, existentialism and ethics. His newest book, Trust, is forthcoming.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 1/24
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 1/25
- 1:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 1/26
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 1/27
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: Screenwriter and director (and Penn alumnus) Andy Wolk begins
a three-day Symposium on Writing for Film, Theatre, and TV.
Symposium participants meet with Mr. Wolk from 2-5 PM in Room 202 to discuss
their scripts and treatments.
The three-day Wolk Symposium has two components: a small "lab" for young screenwriters who will be selected in advance and will work closely with Mr. Wolk; other events are open to all (and free). For full information about all Andy Wolk symposium events click here.
Andy Wolk most recently directed the CBS hit A Town without Christmas starring Patricia Heaton and Peter Falk. Prior to that he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed and highly-rated Deliberate Intent for FX. Starting Timothy Hutton, it was called by the LA Times "taut, smart, provocative, well-acted and suspensefully directed." Mr. Wolk received his third Writer's Guild nomination for this movie. He also wrote and directed the much-lauded HBO drama Criminal Justice which made Time Magazine's "Ten Best" list and was named the best cable movie of the year. Starring Forest Whitaker and Rosie Perez, Criminal Justice also received the Silver Prize at FIPA in Cannes and was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award. Other cable movie credits include writing and directing The Defenders: Payback, Choice of Evils, and Taking the First, three movies for Paramount and Showtime starring Beau Bridges and E.G. Marshall and based on the classic 60s show. Other TV movies include Alibi, All Lies End in Murder, Mr. Rock 'N Roll, and Kiss and Tell. He has also directed The Sopranos and episodes of The Practice, NYPD Blue, Equal Justice and others. Andy Wolk's writing credits include Natica Jackson which starred Michelle Pfeiffer and won him the Writer's Guild Award. Most recently he adapted Elmore Leonard's Bandits for Miramax Films. Mr. Wolk's career started in the theater. For Lincoln Center he directed Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and The Winter's Tale, each of which had successful off-Broadway runs. He has had plays produced as a writer and director at Manhattan Theatre Club, LaMama, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and all over Europe.
Andy Wolk has also been a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Labs and the Artistic Director for the Labs in 1996. This three-day workshop is modeled on the Sundance Labs.
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 7 PM, Arts Cafe: master class on working in film. Participation
by rsvp only. Go here
for more information.
Andy Wolk presenting at the Writers House, January 27, 2003
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Donne Reading Group - a new group dedicated to reading about and from John Donne. For more information or to join, please contact Adrienne Mishkin at amishkin@sas.upenn.edu.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 1/28
- Andy Wolk Symposium on Writing for Film, Theatre, and TV
continues from 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe.
For full information about all Wolk symposium events, click
here.
- 7 PM: The Writers House Alumni Writers Series presents Andy Wolk, screenwriter and director. An informal discussion of Wolk's work as screenwriter and director and about careers in writing for TV and film. Mr. Wolk will, in part, show excerpts from The Sopranos, Criminal Justice and other features. The program will be moderated by Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis. For full information about all Wolk symposium events, click here.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 1/29
- 10-noon: Andy Wolk Symposium on Writing for Film, Theatre, and TV concludes with a final meeting for symposium
participants. Arts Cafe. For full information about all Wolk symposium events, click here.
- 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to
wh@writing.upenn.edu)
- 8:00-10:00 PM: A student reading for Peace & Justice inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.; cosponsored by Penn for Peace,
The Christian Association, Civic House, Du Bois College House, and the LGBT Center. Part of
Penn's Commitment to the Legacy: Justice, Peace & Service.
There are many events, programs, and community service projects that make up Penn's annual observance and celebration of Dr. King's birthday. The entire listing of Penn's programs for the month (January 14th - 31st) can be found here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 209: Meeting of the Hollywood Club. For more information, contact Jake Brooks at jakeb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu for info.
- 8 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/30
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing presents Peter
Gilgen:: In the Wilderness of Thinking: Kant's 'Sign of History.'
Peter Gilgen received his PhD from Stanford University in German Studies and the Graduate Program in Humanities and has been an Assistant Professor of German Studies at Cornell University since the Fall of 1997. Currently, he is a fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University for 2002-2003. His main areas of specialization are late 18th and early 19th century philosophy and literature, especially poetry and poetics. He has published articles, among others, on Holderlin, R. P. Gruber, W. Serner, J.-F. Lyotard, the theory of literature and the university. Forthcoming articles include essays on W. Benjamin and W. v. der Vogelweide, as well as two long articles on Hegel currently under consideration. In 1999 he published "Unterlandschaft" (Eggingen, Germany: Edition Isele, 1999), a philosophico-poetic essay that attempts to read a landscape in its phenomenal, historical, political, and linguistic dimensions.
This talk will examine the importance of Kant's notion of the "sign of history" in relation to "foundation"--that is the foundation of a "new" university as well as the establishment of a "new" society by means of revolution. In the process, Gilgen will ask whether Kant's distinction between the moral philosophy and the philosophy of history must be revised and what the consequences are for a thinking as disciplined (in every sense) as Kant's.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu, Damien Keane: dkeane@english.upenn.edu). Matt Hart, from Penn's English Department, presents.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 1/31
- 3:30 to 6:00 PM: Writers House Staff Meeting in the dining room.
- 2:00-3:30 in Room 202: Jeff Phillip's Preceptorial Seven Pills for Fifteen Peers, meets. For more information, contact Jeff Philips at jkp@sas.upenn.edu
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lea students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.