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IAP 2008 Activities by Sponsor

Literature

Books into Movies
Stephen Tapscott
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Stephen Tapscott, 14N-416, x3-4148, tapscott@mit.edu

Moby Dick
Wyn Kelley
Mon Jan 7, 04-06:00pm, 2-105

The Maltese Falcon
David Thorburn
Wed Jan 9, 04-06:00pm, 2-105

The First Commandment (from Kieslowski's 'The Decalogue')
Stephen Tapscott
Mon Jan 14, 04-06:00pm, 2-105

Blade Runner
Kate Delaney
Wed Jan 23, 04-06:00pm, 2-105

Washington Square
John Hildebidle
Mon Jan 28, 04-06:00pm, 2-105

L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child)
Noel Jackson
Wed Jan 30, 04-06:00pm, 2-105

Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Reading and discussion of memorable poems led by Literature Section faculty and other MIT colleagues.

A packet containing all of the poems in the series is available from the Literature Office, 14N-407.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x8-8049, juliec@mit.edu

Bishop, "In the Waiting Room"
Stephen Tapscott
Mon Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Melville and Dickinson
Wyn Kelley
Tue Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Ransome, "Captain Carpenter"
David Thorburn
Wed Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Shakespeare, Sonnets 76, 121
Howard Eiland
Thu Jan 10, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

James Richardson: "The Encyclopedia of the Stones"
James Buzard
Fri Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Venus Khoury-Ghata
Sarah Wright
Mon Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Tennyson: The Lotos-Eaters
Jim Paradis
Tue Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

David Ferry
Zachary Bos
Wed Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Milton, from "Paradise Lost"
Mary Fuller
Thu Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

May Sarton
Stephen Pepper
Fri Jan 18, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Grace Paley
Anne Hudson
Tue Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Emily Bronte
Susan Lydon
Wed Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Louis MacNeice
Nora Delaney
Thu Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

David Dabydeen
Alisa Braithwaite
Fri Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Bishop, Dante, and Doetzer
Arthur Bahr
Mon Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Brenda Marie Osbey
Sandy Alexandre
Tue Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Wordsworth: "Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman"
Noel Jackson
Wed Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Daljit Nagra
Sarah Brouillette
Thu Jan 31, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Frost
Alvin Kibel
Fri Feb 1, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304


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