Local Renaissance CFP

In March, our department will be hosting a one day conference called Reading Medieval And Renaissance English Literature, and the call has gone out to YOU! Papers to be submitted until January 6.

The White Whale on any other night

חברים יקרים,

החלטנו לדחות את מרתון הקריאה במובי דיק ביום ה' ולהצטרף בכך למחאה על האלימות כלפי המפגינים למען צדק חברתי. האכזבה היא גדולה, אך נראה לנו שלא ניתן להתעלם מהאירועים האחרונים ולנהל עסקים כרגיל.  אנו מודות לכם מאד על נכונותכם להשתתף, לבחור טקסטים ומילים לומר, ולחלוק את אהבתכם למובי דיק.  אנחנו מקוות לקיים את האירוע בכל זאת באופן אוטונומי ובמועד מאוחר יותר.  

שלכם,

אילנה פרדס ומלאת שמיר

Dear friends,

We decided to postpone the Moby Dick reading marathon scheduled for Thursday and thus to join the protest against the use of violence toward demonstrators for social justice. 

This is a huge disappointment for us, but we feel that we can’t ignore the larger context for the event. 

We very much thank you for showing enthusiasm for the idea and for volunteering to participate.  We hope to be able to hold this event at a later date – we’ll let you know.

Yours,

Ilana Pardes and Milette Shamir

Workshop - tomorrow's the last day!

Just in case anyone else missed it:


"Symptoms" and their "Interpretation"? Questions of Seeing, Reading, Listening - A Graduate and Research Students Seminar and Workshop
Monday, June 18th through Wednesday, June 20th


See you there :)

Invictus and The Whale

From the department website:

Invictus and the Poetry of Healing - A lecture by Professor Karen Alkalay-Gut
Thursday, June 14th, 8 PM, Mexico Building (Registration required)

White Night with the White Whale - A reading marathon of Moby-Dick into the night
Thursday, June 28th, 7 PM, Gordo Café, Gordon Beach, Tel Aviv

See you there!

The Annual Carmel Lecture

Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities Department of English and American Studies 

Take pleasure in inviting you to 

THE ANNUAL LECTURE IN MEMORY OF SHEILA AND YOSSI CARMEL Henry James,

Silent Film and the Culture of Illusion

Professor Jonathan Freedman

University of Michigan

More details here

An eventful may

(As seen on the department website)

Writing Across the Americas - An international conference.
Sunday, May 6th through Monday May 7th, Gilman Building Room 496

Annual Vardi Lecture - Professor Erik Roraback, Charles University, Prague, "The Autopoiesis of Modernity: A Philosophical Baroque"

Thursday, May 10th, 4 PM, Gilman Building Room 496

Reading a Symptom: Literary and Psychoanalytical Perspectives - International Symposium
Monday, May 14th

Stanza 7 - Poetry evening in Tel Aviv

On Monday 26 March 2012
At the Bookworm Cafe
9 Kikar Rabin, Tel Aviv

There will be
A Reading

Part One (7.30pm-8.20pm) 

• Intro 
• Sabine Huynh 
• Yoav Itamar 
• Celia Merlin 
• Michal Pirani 
• Ariella Goichman 
• Mike Stone 
• Emma Leavey 
• Shawn Edrei 
• Dan Savery Raz 
• Jacob Newberry 
• Tiferet Peterseil

Part Two (8.30pm-9pm) 

• Uri Liftshitz 
• Avshalom Guissin 
• Wendy Mesguich 
• Dara Barnatt 
• Adam Fisher 
• Melissa Dank 
• Nadja M.Rumjanceva

For more details and promotion tidbits, the Facebook event is here. See you there! Or here. And then there!

Another one to add to your calendar

Annual Lecture in Honor of Talma Yzraely - Guest lecture by Professor Sandrine Sorlin from the University of Montpellier entitled "The Power of Rhetorical Imposture."
Thursday March 29th, 4 PM, Rosenberg Building Room 002


See you there!

Poetry Prizes award ceremony and winners

 Today, Mon. 19 March 2012 we shall be holding

the prize giving ceremony for the winners of

The Bernice Sheffer Bessin Poetry Competition;

4 - 5pm in the Raymond Health Professions Building, the Fabian -Cyril Boisson Auditorium.

For Bernice Bessin - Professor Karen Alkalay-Gut

Sometimes you don’t know where to go

Because you don’t know someone who has gone

Where your heart wants you to be.

At my age there are few models

Of old ladies who continue

To follow dreams – in words,

In the world – who make rhymes

From their love of living.

And share it with generations to come.

Immigration one - Nadja Rumjanceva

Little things give you away.

It is not stamped on your forehead

that you used to feel at home on wheels.

It does not ooze through your casual clothes

that you shared your first menses with your mother, father and two brothers,

cramped on ten square meters in a fugitive camp.

You don’t even think of these days – here, in the soft light of candelabra.

Do you?

Against the velvety touch of your jacket, the rusty sun of older days

fades into cheap documentary.

When dinner is over, you pick breadcrumbs from your plate

and quick motions of the fork gather the last drops of balsamico.

Also, at night you dream of roads.

Start - Roman Filikovsky

It is dress like a pirate day; so, I step beyond myself,

realizing legs and arms, breast and backbone, knee caps, feet, fingers and hearts. This

is a terrible sun day, as I assume my positions inside time

separating, even as we speak

I watch you are as beautiful as misconstrued body parts asking

we have slept long. I say it is one year or one hundred thousand years and I cannot remember. I ask, how do I look and you look merry.

It is enough to make my muscles move.

Yeats visits the central library

He'll be there until the end of March. The details can be found here.

Belated Beginnings

The department is having a busy two weeks! Please check the website to keep track of it all.

Belated Beginnings: Modernity in Early Yiddish Comedy and Nigerian Market Literature 

A guest lecture by Professor Marc Caplan from Johns Hopkins University

Monday, March 19th, 2012, 2.15 PM, Gilman Building Room 496.

Light refreshments at 2 PM.

Guest Lectures by Professor Alexandre Leupin

Department of English and American Studies

The Yael Levin Writer-in-Residence Program

We are honored to invite you

two Guest Lectures

by

Professor Alexandre Leupin

Kidd and Greogorie Professor in French Studies

Louisianna State University

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"Symptoms of Femininity and Western Narrative"

Thursday, 15 March, 2012, 16:15, Rosenberg Building, Hall 02

"Proust's Desire"

Tuesday, 20 March, 2012, 16:15, Webb 103 

Tel Aviv University Campus, Ramat Aviv

Entrance through Austria Gate (#1) and Safra Gate (#14)

The public is invited

Interrupting Whiteness

ADARR

Tel-Aviv

At the Porter Institute

for Poetics and Semiotics

INVITATION

Tuesday March 13, 6 PM, Webb 102 (in English)

Dr. Janice Fernheimer, University of Kentucky:

Interrupting Whiteness :

Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Expansion of Jewish Identity

Janice W. Fernheimer, Assistant Professor, English Department & Program in Jewish Studies

President, Klal Rhetorica

Professor Fernheimer's book project, Rhetoric, Race, Religion: Hatzaad Harishon and Black Jewish Identity from Civil Rights to Black Power (RRR), is under contract with the University of Alabama Press. Analyzing primary archival documents (letters, memos, proposals) housed at the Schomburg Center in New York, RRR focuses on Black Jews and their interactions with other Jews to theorize how rhetors argue about questions of identity and authenticity. 

A Comedy of Errors in Your Favour

Dear students and lecturers of the English and American studies department,

The Cameri theatre is running Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” and we are happy to announce our department theatre evening! The evening is planned for the 21.3 at 8:30, and the price is only 50 NIS per ticket!!! The amount of tickets is limited so if you are interested, please hurry and send me an email with your name and phone number, before the 28.2. The money will be collected on the first day of term or by later notification.

Hope to see you all there,
Maizy.

For any questions please contact me via phone or email:
Maizy.Eliash@gmail.com
0528044822

Poetry in Unexpected Places

We're hosting an international academic conference soon, this one organized by Prof. Karen Alkalay-Gut and Nadja Rumjanceva.

Tuesday, March 22nd: Save the date!

For more details, check out the brochure.

Give Away Someone Else’s Book on World Book Night

World Book Night, a British experiment in giving away royalty-free new books to strangers, is coming to the US, and we’re on board. Here’s the background.

On every first Thursday in March since 1998, the UK has celebrated World Book Day by giving several million British schoolchildren £1 tokens they can use to purchase any book at a bookseller. UK publishers produce special £1 World Book Day editions of select books, and booksellers, schools, and libraries host hundreds of author visits, story times, and dress parties to celebrate the day. By all accounts, World Book Day has become quite successful in bringing books to children and families to bookstores.

A couple years ago, Jamie Byng, managing director of British publisher Canongate, had the thought that the festivities shouldn’t be limited to schoolchildren, that adults who rarely read books could also use some encouragement. He founded World Book Night, an event in which volunteers, including book authors, would give away one million special-edition paperbacks to strangers at train stations, hospitals, prisons and other sites. Margaret Atwood, Alan Bennett, John Le Carré, and Philip Pullman, and other authors kicked off the first World Book Night last year by reading from their favorite books to thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square on a chilly March evening.

British media covered World Book Night extensively, and, defying the expectations of some, the publishers and authors of the books given away fared well: book sales rose substantially for nearly all the 25 titles that were handed out.

On April 23rd, World Book Night comes to the US, with much of the publishing industry behind the effort, including major publishers, Ingram, the American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, and the American Library Association. A committee of booksellers and librarians selected the 30 books that are being printed in special World Book Night editions. (Please note, the Authors Guild took no role in selecting the titles.)

Want to volunteer to be a book giver? Choose one of the 30 books (list here) that you particularly enjoyed, choose a place to give away the book, and apply at the World Book Night website. There’s nothing in it for you, except for the satisfaction of introducing others to a favorite book, and perhaps the glory of a local newspaper or radio story. You’ll likely increase your odds for being chosen if you mention that you’re an author and you choose a distribution site calculated to reach those who rarely read books.

Carl Lennertz, formerly of Random, Harper, Little Brown, and Book Sense, is the executive director of World Book Night US. He’ll be reviewing all applications and pledges to be on the lookout for authors.

The application deadline is February 1st.

Volunteer application

World Book Night website

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Bent and broken into a better shape

The MOFET Institute and The British Council present:

Bent and broken into a better shape:

the magical storytelling of Charles Dickens

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 15:00-17:30

Programme:

• Reception: 15:00-15:45
• Welcome Address & Performance: 15:45-17:00
• Q & A and Closing Remarks: 17:00-17:30

For a map of the college campus and for directions to the Institute, please
click here.

Click here for a map of the area.

The Mad Poets: A Hanukkah Event!

We are arranging a Hanukkah event for the department:
Next Wednesday, 28^th December, 18:00 to 20:00 in Webb 001.

The theme is Darkness and Light, and there are still slots available for readers! You can send us whatever you want (poetry, prose, short stories, quick lectures) as long as it’s related to the theme of "Light and Darkness" and is short enough (not more than 5 minutes).

If you'd like to participate, contact us at tau.madpoets@gmail.com

It’s going to be a fun event. We have some really interested talks lined up, and quite a few talented musicians, we have students of all levels reading...

There will be snacks, wine and doughnuts!

The event page is on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/288951814474808/

If you have any questions, you are more than welcome to catch us on campus, or send us an email! (Again, at  tau.madpoets@gmail.com )

Chag Sameach,

Yafit, Omri & Adam. 

Communications History as Cultural History

We have all been invited to a lecture by Berkeley history professor David Henkin on the topic of "Communications History as Cultural History." For all MA students who are working on subjects pertaining to American literature and culture, this lecture should be of particular interest.

Wednesday, December 14th

6 PM

Gilman 282 

Update: English and American Literature into Film Series

Beginning Thursday, December 15th, the Department of English and American Studies will be hosting another fascinating lecture series!

English and American Literature into Film Series 

Thursdays, 6-8 PM, Webb Building Room 001

Othello – Shakespeare and Orson Wells 

December 15th: 

Dr. Noam Reisner

Shakespeare in Love

December 22nd: Ms. Linda Streit

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen and Joe Wright (2005) 

December 29th: Dr. Amy Garnai

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Mark Waters's The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

January 5th: Dr. Yael Maurer

The Time Machine – H.G. Well and Simon Wells (2002)

January 12th: Prof. Elana Gomel

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell and David O. SleznickJanuary 19th: Dr. Yael Sternhell

Portrait of a Lady – Henry James and Jane CampionJanuary 26th: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher

See you there!