8 March

Guest Lecture

Dori Sanders: ‘An African-American Woman in Fact and Fiction’

Born, raised and resident in South Carolina, Dori Sanders combines storytelling, writing, farming (on a three hundred acre peach and vegetable farm) and lecturing. She is the author of two best-selling novels — Clover (1990) and Her Own Place (1993) — as well as the non-fiction Dori Sanders’ Country Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand (1995). Clover won the coveted Lillian Smith Award, was made into a television movie, and has been translated into six languages. Currently working on a book about her father, she talks today about her life and work.

Place: Room 415, Building 467; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Time: 14:15

10 March

DATE Seminar

Four lectures dealing with various aspects of the so-called American Century: from violence via Asian-American literature to public education. The speakers will be Bruce Leslie (State University of New York, Brockport), Inger H. Dalsgaard (University of Aarhus), Jody W. Pennington (University of Aarhus), and Dale Carter (University of Aarhus). Further details from the ASCA office or ASCA website.

The seminar is arranged on behalf of the Danish Association of Teachers of English (DATE) though non-members are also very welcome to register. Registration for the seminar costs KR 400 and includes the cost of lunch, coffee and a package of preparatory readings and support materials in connection with the seminar. Those who would like to register for the seminar should contact Mette Weisberg at DATE (email <weisberg@post3.tele.dk>) before 18 February.

Place: Mødelokale 1, Studenternes Hus, University of Aarhus

Time: 09:30 - 16:00

16/17 March

American Studies Consortium Staff/Ph.D. Student Seminar

Education in America

The latest in the series of American Studies Consortium seminars has as its theme education in the United States: from debates over the teaching of history to the history of teaching itself. The seminar will include a number of presentations by research students as well as opportunities to discuss the future development of postgraduate education in American Studies. The speakers will include: Jos van der Linden (University of Utrecht), Bruce Leslie (SUNY Binghamton), Birgitte Nielsen (Southern Denmark University, Odense), David Harding (University of Aarhus), and Anette Nibe (Southern Denmark University, Odense). Further details from the ASCA office or ASCA website.

Staff and graduate students wishing to participate should contact the ASCA office before Friday 25 February to receive a copy of the preparatory seminar readings.

Place: Room 415, building 467; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Times: (16 March): 10:00 - 17:00; (17 March) 09:00 - 15:30

5 April

Guest Lecture

Eric Guthey (Copenhagen Business School): ‘The New New Thing or the Same Old Thing: On Silicon Valley, the New Internet Economy, and Reading Persons as Fictions’

Eric Guthey has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Odense University, as well as a Research Fellow in the Society of Scholars, Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration, and Faculty Associate in the Program in American Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently Associate Professor of American Studies at the Copenhagen Business School. In today’s guest lecture he discusses recent biographical studies of Silicon Valley’s technological pioneers.

Place: Room 415, Building 467; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Time: 14:15

12 April

Guest Lecture

Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College, Florida): ‘The Eye in the Poem: Subjectivity in Eliot and Lowell’

Professor of Literature at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, Jewel Spears Brooker is currently the John Adams Fellow at the University of London. She has published four books on T.S. Eliot’s poetry, and is vice-president of the South Atlantic MLA. Her most recent books have been Conversations with Denise Levertov (1998) and Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994). Her latest volume, T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World, is due to be published this spring by Macmillan.

Place: Room 415, Building 467; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Time: 14:15