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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 7:00pm
McGinley Ballroom (Rose Hill)
A lecture by Philip Gourevitch
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Read here
the Today at Fordham article
on Gourevitch |
| Philip Gourevitch is a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker and the editor of The Paris Review. His most well-known book to date, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, grew out of a series of New Yorker articles covering the genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. His second book, A Cold Case, is the gripping story of an unsolved murder in New York. Gourevitch's most recent book, Standard Operating Procedure—written in collaboration with the filmmaker Errol Morris—is a disturbing account of what happened at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004, when the release of images of prisoner abuse shocked the world and forever changed the image of the United States around the globe. Gourevitch’s book reconstructs the events at the prison based on extensive interviews with the soldiers who were there. |
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NOTE: On September 25, Gourevitch will also appear at a panel discussion of his work at 1pm in McNally Amphitheatre on the Lincoln Center campus.
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[Sponsors: the American Studies Program; the American Age Lecture Series/CAB; the Center on Religion and Culture; the Deans of Fordham College; the Departments of Communication and Media Studies, English and History; and the programs in Literary Studies and Women's Studies]
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Friday, October 3, 2008 - 5:00pm
McMahon Lounge, Room 109 (Lincoln Center)
"The Arok Conspiracy: Literature, History, and Political Activism"
Max Lane on Pramoedya Ananta Toer's novel Arok of Java. |
Max Lane (Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore) is the English translator of the Buru Quartet of novels by Indonesian novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer (This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, House of Glass), and the author of Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto (Verso, 2008). He has recently translated Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Arok of Java (Horizon Books, 2007), a historical novel set in 13th-century Java. Lane will discuss the relevance of this novel for contemporary political activism and the dynamics of Indonesian history.
NOTE: For Pramoedya Ananta Toer's essay, "My Apologies, in the Name of Experience" (trans. Alex Bardsley), click here.
[Sponsors: the Literary Studies Program; the English Department; the Center for Medieval Studies, the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures; and the Arts & Sciences Deans.] |
This event coincides with the 8th annual Fordham English Graduate Association conference on "Innovation and Evolution" (October 3-4, 2008).
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 3:30pm
University Commons, Duane (Rose Hill)
"Testimony and Storytelling: A Conversation with Antonia Arslan and Immaculée Ilibagiza"
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Antonia Arslan is the author of the best-selling novel La Masseria delle Allodole (traslated into English as Sylark Farm: A Novel by Geoffrey Brock [Knopf 2007]) in which she draws on the story of her family during the 1915 Armenian genocide. Her book, which was awarded prestigious literary prizes in Italy and was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times 2007 Book Prize for First Fiction, was adapted into a film by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 2007.
Immaculée Ilibagiza survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide and told her story in Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Hay House 2006) and Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide (Hay House 2008), both authored with Steve Erwin. Left to Tell, a New York Times Best Seller, was made into the documentary THe Diary of Immaculée by Peter LeDonne, and has been translated into 15 languages worldwide.
[Sponsors: the Department of African and African American Studies, History, Philosophy and Theology, the Literary Studies Program, International Philosophical Quarterly, Rose Hill Campus Ministry, the Arts & Sciences Deans, and the President's Office.]
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GRADUATE SCHOOL WORKSHOP
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Thinking of going to graduate school? Meet chairs and former chairs of department in the humanities from Princeton, Rutgers and Fordham. They will give you expert advice and answer various questions on the application process.
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Panelists:
Maria DiBattista
(English & Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
Maryanne Kowaleski
(History & Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Nicola Pitchford
(English & Literary Studies, Fordham University)
Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui
(American Studies & Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)
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| When? Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 4:00pm |
Where? Atrium of the Cafeteria at Lincoln Center
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Sponsors: Literary Studies and the Dean of Fordham College Lincoln Center
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