“That Different Yield”: A Reading by the Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP), 6/26/08.
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“That Different Yield”: A Reading by the Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP), 6/20/07.
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The 2007 Department of English Graduation Reception with a reading by Terry R. Hummer and an Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, 5/9/07.
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Sapphire Lecture/Reading, part of PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire, 2/28/07.
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Sapphire Question and Answer session following her reading, 2/28/07.
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Alberto Ríos delivering the keynote address at the Chandler Celebration of Unity, 1/12/07.
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Alberto Ríos delivering an inaugural poem called, "A Sustainable Courage," at Governor Janet Napolitano's inauguration at the state capitol on January 4, 2007.
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An excerpt from The 2006 Young
Adult Writing Project, "A Drive-by
Sharing by a Teenage Writing Gang" 6/21/06
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Ron Carlson reading an excerpt from "The Flag Fake Flip and Jailbreak Screen" and the poem "The Reason We Have Schools" at the English Department Graduation Reception, Spring 2006.
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Markus Cruse, Chouki El Hamel, Sylvain Gallais reading Le Mulâtre (1837) by Victor Séjour. 4/12/06
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The ASU Antislavery Ensemble 3/01/06
"Spirit
of Freedom, Awake"
"My
Country 'Tis of Thee"
"Daughters
of the Pilgrim Sires"
"God
of the Wide Creation"
"Come
Join the Abolitionists"
"I
Am an Abolitionist"
"God of the Wide Creation" V.2
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"Daughters
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"God
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"I
Am an Abolitionist"
"God
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Keith Miller reading The Natick Resolution by Henry C. Wright 2/03/06
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Neal A. Lester reading a selection from the Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher 7/01/05
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The 2003 Young
Adult Writing Project, "A Drive-by
Sharing by a Teenage Writing Gang" 6/25/03
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Terry Moore as
Walt Whitman in "At Last, An American Bard" 3/26/03
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David St. John "A Reading," Introductions
by Melissa Pritchard and Norman Dubie. 2/5/2003
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Marshall
Poet-in-Residence, with Russell Edson, 4/12 at 7:30
PM in BAC 216.
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The Esther
Frank Memorial Poetry Reading, featuring William
Olsen and Nancy Eimers (11/02/00).
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“So Let It Be Done: Confronting Fears and Fulfilling the Promise” Dr. Matthew Whitaker, Keynote Address from “Choosing the Future: Critical Issues in American Life” Undergraduate Academic Conference, 10/18/08.
Zoe Trodd, Tutorial Board, Committee on History and Literature, Harvard University, reading " A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism"
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With respondent: Stanlie James Director, African and African American Studies, Arizona State University. 4/14/08
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Dr. David Holmes Associate Professor in English (Pepperdine University) Visiting Associate Professor, ASU English reading "(Re) Dressing the KKK: Fred Shuttlesworth’s Precept Hermeneutic and the Rhetoric of African American Prophetic Patriotism." 3/26/08
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‘Acting While Black’ A Conversation with Harry J. Lennix. 2/08/08
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K. L. Cook, Associate Professor of English Prescott College, presenting "Short Story Cycles, Linked Stories, & Novels-in-Stories" part of the Arizona Universities Faculty Exchange Lecture Series. 4/4/07
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Handout in Word
Donelle Ruwe,
Assistant Professor of English, Northern Arizona University presenting “Botanical Rambles: Romanticism, Nature Walks, and the Dissemination of Associationist Philosophy” part of the Arizona Universities Faculty Exchange Lecture Series. 3/30/07
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PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire, 2/28/07.
Symposium Welcome by Neal A. Lester
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"Push: Overview and Undergraduate Student Presentations " (UCLUB)
Moderator: Elizabeth McNeil
Presenters: Caryn Bird, Katherine Giovacchini, Monica Van Steenberg
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Vernacular and Literacy: Transforming the Self with the Word (UCLUB)
Chair: Angelita D. Reyes
“Locating Sites for Writing and Personal Transformation in Sapphire's Push.”
Lynette Myles, Arizona State University
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“‘He my shiny brown boy:’ African American Maternal Vernacular in Sapphire’s Push”
Terri Pantuso, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Rhythm, Challenge and Change in Sapphire’s Poetry and Short Stories (UCLUB)
Chair: Richard Mook
“Some of Sapphire’s Blues Notes”
Michael Pfister, Arizona State University
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“Uncollected, Dedicated, and Contributed: Sapphire’s earlier work”
Steven Reigns, Poet and Independent Scholar
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Motherhood and Trauma: Understanding the Self by Moving Past the Pain (UCLUB)
Chair: Egyirba High
“Explaining Ourselves: A Rewriting and Recollection of Personhood”
Nina R. Candia, University of Maryland, College Park
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“Dysfunctional Sex: Social and Familial Isolation in Contemporary Victimization Narratives"
Erin Vonnahme, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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The Body and Space: Environmental and Ecofeminist Approaches to PUSH (UCLUB)
Chair: Peter Goggin
“125th Street Transcendentalism"
Dan Shilling, Sharlot Hall Museum and Arizona State University
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"Sapphire's Literary Freak Show: The Ecofeminist Landscape of Push"
Elizabeth McNeil, Arizona State University
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“Teaching Environmental Justice Themes in Push”
Joni Adamson, Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus
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Age and the Page: Young Adult Literature and Secondary Education (UCLUB)
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen
“Pushing the Envelope in Young Adult Literature”
James Blasingame, Arizona State University
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Tara T. Green, Northern Arizona University, "'Talking on Water':
The Use of Water as
Healing in African American Women's Literature" 11/16/06
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SLAVERY & ANTISLAVERY: A NEW RESEARCH AND TEACHING WORKSHOP. 10/13/06
Joe Lockard, Arizona State University, Tempe campus - "Introduction"
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Timothy McCarthy, Harvard University – "Antislavery Protest Literature in 19th-Century America: Teaching the Untaught"
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Angelita Reyes, Arizona State University, Tempe campus – "Elusive Autobiographies: Reading Slavery's Vernacular Artifacts"
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Stephen Marc, Arizona State University, Tempe campus – "Passage on the Underground Railroad: Making and Teaching the Photography of Slavery"
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Kay Norton, Arizona State
University, Tempe campus – " The Music of
Slavery and Antislavery: Researching and Teaching Hymnology"
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Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University, reading "Prophets of Protest: Literary Abolitionism and the Aesthetics of Equality" 10/12/06
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American Protest Literature Lecture Videos (Harvard University) from "Literature and Arts A-86: American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac" (in cooperation with the Antislavery Literature Project and Harvard University.
The 2005-2006 Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture featuring Jerome J. McGann, the John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English at the University of Virginia, reading "Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities". 3/28/06
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Question/Answer following the talk in MP3 format. 18:25 minutes
Professor Joe Lockard, "Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of Antislavery Poetry" 3/23/06
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Professor Joe Lockard, "William Still and Philadelphia's African American Underground" 3/23/06
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A Scholarly
Discussion of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the
Christ. 3/31/04
Introduction by Dr. Martin Levin, Professor Diane
Wolfthal, School of Art
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Professor Rosalynn Voaden, Department of English
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Professor Allison Coudert, Religious Studies
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Professor Jay Boyer, Department of English
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Open Discussion (audio only)
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The 2002 Ian
Fletcher Lecture: Lennard J. Davis, "Race,
Disability and the New Genomics," 11/13/03.
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The Many Faces of Elizabeth I.
The 2003 ACMRS Symposium
"Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I" by Fred
Kiefer.
10/4/03
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"Elizabeth R, the First Royal Movie Star" by Ron
Newcomer. 10/4/03
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"Elizabeth of England and Mary of Scotland" by Retha Warnicke. 10/4/03
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The 2003 Southwest
Graduate Literature Symposium Keynote, "Rebels With a Cause: Henry James, George
Herbert, and Geoffrey Chaucer" by Chauncey Wood. 3/28/2003
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Behind The Lord
of the Rings. The 2002 ACMRS Symposium
"The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: Hobbit Poetry" by Randel Helms. 11/2/2002
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"Turning Tolkien's Prose into the Visual
Language of Film" by Ron Newcomer. 11/2/2002
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"Trees, Chainsaws, and the Visions of Paradise
in J.R.R. Tolkien" by Tom Shippey. 11/2/2002
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The 2002 Ian
Fletcher Lecture: Patrick Brantlinger, "Cannibals and
Missionaries." 10/24/2002
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Marshall Chair candidate: Norman Finkelstein, "You
Have to be Tricked into It: Writing (and Reading) the Serial Poem" 4/1/02
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Marshall Chair candidate: Cynthia Hogue, "On
Marianne Moore from Another Postmodernism: Towards an Ethical Poetics" 3/27/02
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Marshall Chair candidate: Juliana Spahr, "Poetry
in a Time of Crisis" 3/25/02
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Colloquium: Thelma Shinn Richard, "Literary
Bridges from the USA and the RSA" 2/27/02.
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"Renovating the National Imaginary: A 'New'
Body for the Patriotic Public Sphere" with Barbara
Biesecker,
4/12/01
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The Ian
Fletcher Lecture features Mary Louise Pratt reading, "Modernity
and Globality or What brought the Virgin of Zapopan to Los
Angeles." (2/22/01).
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"Orlan's
Vision of the Interdisciplinary Future,"
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Mark Lussier, "Resisting
Critical Erasure, or Blake Beyond Postmodernity" (10/18/00).
N. Katherine Hayles "Romantic
Bits: Embedded in Media" (9/16/00).
