18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Mon Jan 26, 07-09:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
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. No need to enroll! All are welcome.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, NE25-385, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Mobile Milton Marathon (M3@MIT)
Diana Henderson
Wed Jan 28, 09am-09:30pm, mobile
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join the Mobile Milton Marathon (M3@MIT) as we take on the appropriately epic task of reading (and performing?) the entirety of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" in one extraordinary day! All listeners and volunteer readers welcome to come and go as they must, as we wend our way across appropriate spaces at MIT to share this masterpiece of English Literature with new audiences and old friends. The occasion marks the 400th birth of John Milton (Dec. 9th, 1608--but back then the New Year began with the spring) and unlike other such readings across the nation ours is peripatetic and invites multimedia
collaborations: very MIT!
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
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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 and at http://lit.mit.edu.
This is being offered as both a for-credit and a not-for-credit course.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
Xiang Yu, Lui Bang, Li Yu
Alexander Wei
Xiang Yu:
Song of Ganxia
Liu Bang:
Song of the Great Wind
Li Yu:
In Prison
Mon Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Sylvia Plath
Kristen Lauerman
Elm
Tue Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mark Hessler
First Fig, Second Fig, Spring, collected sonnets
Wed Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Jorie Graham
Nadia Colburn
Imperialism, The Region of Unlikeness, The Dream of the Unified Field
Thu Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Carol Ann Duffy
John Hildebidle
Telephoning Home, The Good Teachers, Dark School, Prayer, The Virgin Punishing the Infant, Elvis's Twin Sister
Fri Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop
Howard Eiland
Roethke: The Waking, Bishop: One Art
Mon Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Edmund Spenser, John Milton
Arthur Bahr
Spenser: Amoretti, Sonnet 89; Milton: Methinks I saw my late espoused saint
Tue Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Mary Ruefle, Denis Johnson
Kevin McLellan
Ruefle: Seen Through Binoculars; Overcast. Johnson: Now.
Wed Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Lewis Carroll
Jamie Graham
The Jabberwocky.
Thu Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Richard Wilbur
Sue Delaney
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World, After the Bulletins, Conjuration
Fri Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Denis Levertov
Anne Hudson
A Poem at Christmas, 1972, during the Terror-Bombing of North Vietname; The Gulf; A Metier of Blossoming; Cancion.
Tue Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Flanders and Swann
James Buzard
Misalliance; Madiera, M'dear; The Hippopotamus; Ill Wind; The First and Second Law; Friendly Duet.
Wed Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Alan Dugan
David Thorburn
How We Heard the Name; Morning Song; Religious Question; Speech to the Student Clowns at the Circus Clown School at Sarasota, Florida; Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli
Thu Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
John Berryman, Wilhelm Müller
Martin Marks
Berryman: Beethoven Triumphant. Müller: The Favorite Color, The Evil Color, The Forget-Me Flower.
Fri Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
R.S. Thomas
Stephen Pepper
The Echoes Return Slow (excerpts), Together
Mon Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
W.H. Auden
Randall Colaizzi
Ischia
Tue Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Philip Larkin
Nora K. Delaney
Mr. Bleaney, The Whitsun Weddings, The Explosion
Wed Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
William Shakespeare
Alvin Kibel
Sonnets I, XVIII, XX, LIII, LIV, LXXIII
Thu Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Margaret Atwood
Sarah Brouillette
Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
Fri Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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The Games of Ender's Game
Elliot M. Pinkus
Thu Jan 29, 01-04:00pm, 1-150
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Single session event
Join us for a fun and informal discussion analyzing Orson Scott Card’s award-winning novel "Ender’s Game." We will be looking at how Card structures the book around “games,” both in the literal and metaphorical sense. What can we learn from the various games played by the characters (the Arcade, the Battle Room, the Fantasy Game, the Command Simulator)? How do the characters treat life as a “game” and what do their styles of “play” reveal about them? We will be using board games and video games to frame parts of the discussion, while drawing from game design theory.
Contact: Elliot M. Pinkus, NE25, (617) 715-2572, emp85@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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The Screwtape Letters
Mike Olejarz, Brandon Reese, Julie Paul
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 26, 28, 05:30-07:30pm, W20-PDR4
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Limited to 16 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
We will discuss a few chapters of The Screwtape Letters at each session. You do not have to have read the book to participate. We will have 10 complimentary copies of the book available, but you may want to purchase a copy in case our supply runs out.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/xa/www
Contact: Mike Olejarz, W11-063, x3-2327, cacf@mit.edu
Sponsor: Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship
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