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March 2, 2013
Michael Schmidt’s dissertation, “The Materialism of the Encounter: Queer Sociality and Capital in Modern Literature,” is scheduled for its defense in the Wayne State Department of English at 11 AM, Tuesday, March 19, 10302 5057 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. This a public defense. After its conclusion, I will post the abstract here.
January 20, 2013
Modern Language Association
Boston, 3–6 January 2013
Session 150. The Poet-Scholar. 7:00-8:15 PM, 4 January.
Hillary Gravendyk, presiding; with Julie Carr, Heather Dubrow, Margaret Ronda, Jennifer Scappettone, and Juliana Spahr.
[Running commentary on Storify here.]
Session 370. Marxism and Modernist Studies Today, 3:30–4:45 PM, 5 January.
Jason Baskin, presiding; with Ruth Jennison.
“Modernism and the Abstraction of Value: Political Economy in transition (1927-38)”
[Introduction here.]
June 24, 2012
[for Carla Harryman]
The following chronology documents two weeks of intensive travels in the zone of the aesthetic, under the aspect of the political, in Germany. I accompanied Carla Harryman, who had been invited to present a lecture in the closing week of documenta and was a credentialed participant for the preview, for the first week, and then continued on alone through Munich, Nuremberg, Jena, Leipzig, to Berlin. Annotations will be added to the entries, as time permits.
Monday, June 4
JFK > FRA.
Tuesday, June 5
“Auf dem Goetheweg zum Brocken.” Nationalpark Harz, Torfhaus, Lower Saxony.
Grenzmuseum, Sorge, Lower Saxony.
Wednesday, June 6
Weltkulturerbe Rammelsberg, Museum und Besucherbergwerk, Goslar.
“Der Andere Blick: Alltagswelten von Martin Parr, Tim Wood, Antanas Sutkus.” Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar.
documenta 13, Kassel. Preview.
Thursday, June 7
documenta 13, Kassel. Fridericianum.
“On the Kabul-Bamiyan Seminars and Exhibition.” Conversation with Christine Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martinez, and artists. Ständehaus.
April 2, 2012
I Met (ACLA)
American Comparative Literature Association
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
30 March–1 April 2012
After On Kawara
Omaar Hena
Nathan Suhr-Systma
Jim Cocola
Matthew Nelson
Sonya Posmentier
… More
November 6, 2011
A scripted, multivocal performance based on excerpts from the ten-volume The Grand Piano will be delivered by eight of the project’s authors: Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten at UC Berkeley and Small Press Traffic, San Francisco. At Berkeley, the event will be moderated by Jasper Bernes; in San Francisco, it will be preceded by a 45-minute group discussion including the audience, moderated by David Buuck, on the values of collective art practice from the 70s to the present.
Holloway Reading Series
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall
University of California, Berkeley
6:30–8:00, Friday, November 18
Timkin Hall, California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
5:00–7:00, Sunday, November 20
I Met (Chicago)
House reading @ Jennifer Rupert/Chris Glomski
4 November 2011, Humboldt Park, Chicago
After On Kawara
Jennifer Rupert
Chris Glomski
Janet Wondra
Gina Buccola
Jeffery Gore
Alison James
Jorge Frisancho
Joyce Colton
Jinny Lim
Peter O’Leary
Michael O’Leary
Jen Karmin
A. D. Jameson
Robin Hursey
Emily Branch
Ryan Kenealy
Bertie Kenealy
October 30, 2011
I Met (ASAP)
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
26–30 October, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
After On Kawara
Benjamin Lee
Jonathan Eburne
Amy J. Elias
Brian McHale
David Shumway
Melissa Ragona
Tan Lin
Alan Golding
Kristen Gallagher
Danny Snelson
… More
July 11, 2011
I Met (DE 2011)
1–4 July Berlin/Binz; 5 July Jena/Nürnburg
5 July Augsburg; 5–6 July München
7–9 July Mainz; 10 July Karlsruhe/Frankfurt
After On Kawara
Donna Stonecipher
Eugene Ostashevsky
Uljana Wolf
Christian Hawkey
Ekaterina Drobyazko
Heike Paul
Harald Zapf
Katharina Gerund
… More
June 13, 2011
I Met (EU 2011)
11—14 May, Berlin; 14–15 May, Prague
15—21 May, Munich; 21–25 May, Nuremberg
26–29 May, Brest; 29–31 May, Paris
After On Kawara
Donna Stonecipher
Florian Werner
Svenja Flaßpöhler
Ada Werner-Flaßpöhler
Louis Armand
David Vichner
Vadim Erent
May 15, 2011
Third international Summer Academy
“Transatlantic American Studies: Democratic Cultures, Past and Present”
14–28 May 2011
Bavarian-American Academy, Munich
and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Academy information here; program schedule here; program poster here
Day 1: the program began with a reception at Amerika Haus; it was wonderful to see everyone—Meike Zwingenberger, Klaus Benesch, Heike Paul, Jasmina Brkovic, and two dozen German, Polish, and American doctoral students, some new to the program and many returned from the first two years. I had just arrived from Prague, but many who had gotten in earlier had already been on an extensive bike tour of the English Gardens.
