August 23rd, 2007
Humanities 1010 Instructor Meeting
2:00 pm - 4:00, Ketchum 231

Friday, September 14, 2007
Kickoff Party
4:30 - 7:00 pm, Aspen Room, UMC

September 20 - 21, 2007
British and Irish Studies conference - “Affect: Sensation and Sensibility”
British Studies room in Norlin Libary, located on the 5th floor, room M549

The Center for British and Irish Studies is delighted to announce a conference on “Affect: Sensation and Sensibility” that will feature six scholars presenting on topics ranging from 18th and 19th-century literature to early 20th-century global film. We have designed several events which graduate students in literature and film will benefit from enormously.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Library Research Orientation session
12:30-1:30 pm, Room E160, Norlin Library.
Please contact Anne.M.Jennings@colorado.edu

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Lecture by Professor Thomas Eder, University of Vienna
5:30 pm, Center For British and Irish Studies, Room M450C, Norlin Library.
Professor Thomas Eder's lecture is entitled "Self Attribution, Introspection, and Narratology in Woolf, Musil, and Vale´ry" (in English)

Friday, November 9, 2007
Lecture by Professor Thomas Eder, University of Vienna
4:00 pm, Humanities 245, Eaton Humanities Building
Professor Thomas Eder's lecture is entitled "Kristallisationspunkte von ,Gestalt'. 1800 - 1900 - 2000: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christain von Ehrenfels, George Lakoff" (in German)

Professor Thomas Eder is the author of Unterschiedenes ist / gut. Reinhard Priessnitz und die Repoetisierung der Avantgarde [The Differentiated is / good: Reinhard Priessnitz and the Repoeticization of the Avant-Garde] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003) and co-editor of Zur Metapher: Die Metapher in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur [On Metaphor: Metaphor in Philosophy, Science, and Literature] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007). He has also published over fifty articles and essays on contemporary Austrian literature and on literary theory. The lecture in English is part of a larger project on the use and misuse of theory of mind and cognitive science in narratology and literary theory. These talks are sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, the Center for British and Irish Studies, and the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
End of Semester Reception
4:00 - 6:00 pm, Comp. Lit. & Humanities offices: Ktch 230, 231, 233

Friday, December 21st, 2007
Commencement
11:00 am, 5th Floor Lounge, UMC