A Tolkien Evening: Three Aspects of the Background of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
Daniel Kemp
Wed Jan 22, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
Single session event
1. Readings from Tolkien's relevant writings prior to starting "Lord of the Rings".
2. Readings from other English fantasy writers who may have influenced his conceptions.
3. Reading of the short fragment of an Old English poem "The Battle of Malden."
Contact: Allison Kelsey, 6-208, x8-0848, akelsey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Chemistry
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Concentrating, Minoring or Majoring in 21L Literature
John Hildebidle
Wed Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, 14E-304
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Considering Concentrating in Literature? Musing about Minoring in Literature? Mulling over Majoring in Literature? What do you do with a Literature degree, anyway? Come find out the answers to this and other fascinating philosophical questions. Meet Literature faculty and majors. Refreshments will be served.
Contact: Briony Keith, 14N-407, x3-3581, lit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
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Pleasures of Poetry: Reading and Discussion of Memorable Poems
Literature Faculty, David Thorburn, Julie Saunders
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
Reading and discussion of major poems by members of the Literature Faculty (with help from literary friends). Handouts of poems and series schedule available at each session, and from the Literature Headquarters, 14N-407, lit@mit.edu, 3-3581.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/iap.html
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x3-3581, lit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
Montale
Stephen Tapscott
Stephen Tapscott will read and discuss different translations of poems from "Moteti" (Motets) by Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet Eugenio Montale.
Mon Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Heany, Walcott, Gluck
Mary Fuller
Selections from Heany, Walcott, and Gluck.
Tue Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Browning
Howard Eiland
"My Last Duchess"
Wed Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Ackerman and Welsh
Rebecca Faery
"Diffraction" by Ackerman; "The Delirium of Swiftness" by Welsh.
Thu Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Melville
Wyn Kelley
"After the Pleasure Party."
Fri Jan 10, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Mao, Stevens, Schnackenburg, and Frost
Jean Monahan
"Snow," by Mao; "The Snowman," by Stevens; "The Paperweight" by Schnackenburg; "An Old Man's Winter Night" by Frost.
Mon Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Doty
Stephen Pepper
Selections from Mark Doty.
Tue Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Komunyakaa
Helen Elaine Lee
"Venus's-flytraps," "Banking Potatoes," and "Sunday Afternoons."
Wed Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Keats
Dorothy Lee
"To Autumn," "Ode to a Nightingale," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
Thu Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Auden
Sarah Wright
"Musee des Beaux Arts."
Fri Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wordsworth, Levine, Frost, and Levertov
John Hildebidle
Selections from Wordsworth, Levine, Frost, and Levertov.
Tue Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Dickinson and Levertov
Liz Connors
Selections from Dickinson and Levertov .
Wed Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Collins and Piercy
Susan Spilecki
Selections from Collins and Piercy.
Thu Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Coleridge
Ina Lipkowitz
"Kubla Khan."
Fri Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Yeats
Anne Hudson
"The Second Coming" and "When You Are Old" by Yeats.
Mon Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Lawrence
Elizabeth Fox
Selections from Lawrence.
Tue Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
C. K. Williams
David Thorburn
"Invisible Mending" and "Last Things."
Wed Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Browning
James Paradis
"Fra Lippo Lippi."
Thu Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Blake
Noel Jackson
"Songs of Innocence."
Fri Jan 31, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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Robert Bly Reading and Talking About Poetry
Michael Simons
Fri Jan 31, 02-03:00pm, 1-134
Come watch Robert Bly on video read and talk about poetry. Learn about the importance of telling the truth with respect to one's own experience-- sometimes this is hard to do! Participants are encouraged to share about their own life experience.
Contact: Michael Simons, x3-0602, msimons@mit.edu
Sponsor: Teaching and Learning Lab
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Story Telling Circle
Jimmy Rising
Fri Jan 17, 03-05:00pm, 24-619
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None
Join us as we tell stories and listen to stories in a circle of amateur story tellers. Come with a short story, on paper or in your mind, and be ready to tell it when it comes your turn. No experience required!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg/www/IAP
Contact: Jimmy Rising, jrising@mit.edu
Sponsor: Experimental Study Group
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The Twelfth Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Tue Jan 28, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, "5000 Fingers of Dr. T." An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Contact: Henry Jenkins, 14N-205, x3-3068, henry3@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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War, Peace and Poetry
Roger Petersen
Thu Jan 16, 01-02:30pm, 5-234
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
In "Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Modern War," John Mueller argues that the richest and most developed nations have developed a sub-rational aversion to war. He points out that there has been no war among the forty-four richest nations since the end of the Second World War. How can such an argument be evaluated? This session examines Mueller's argument by tracing the evolution of war poetry over the last century. Do these poems suggest the development of an understanding of the futility of war in economically advanced states?
Contact: Roger Petersen, E53-487, x3-6781, rpeters@mit.edu
Sponsor: Political Science
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