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Winter 2015 Schedule

Happy New Year!

We’re thrilled to announce our Winter 2015 Schedule:

Unless otherwise notes, all meetings take place Thursday at 4:30pm in Foster 305 and are followed by a small reception.

Texts to be read in advance are posted under the “Workshop Documents” tab one week prior to our meeting. All documents are password-protected. The password is circulated via the listserv.

Thursday, January 8: Close reading of Virginia Woolf‘s essays, “Craftsmanship,” “Modern Fiction,” and “How Should One Read a Book?” led by Carly Lane and Joseph Simmons.

Thursday, January 22: D.N. Rodowick, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago, “Perfectionism’s Ironic Transport.”

Thursday, February 5 : Glenn Most, Professor of Classics and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, “Allegoresis and Etymology.”

Thursday, February 19: Konrad C. Weeda, PhD Student in Social Thought at the University of Chicago, “Beautiful Farming and Meaningful Life in Virgil’s Georgics.

Thursday, March 5Brian Berry, PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, guided reading of selections from Samuel Beckett’s short prose

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