Thank you to all the poets who read last night as the closing event for the Gray-Torres Conference on Domestic Violence and Stalking. It was a moving and inspiring event.
Our particular thanks go to Jim Burbank who organized and MC'd the evening.
If you were unable to attend, keep an eye out here on our blog as we recorded the readings and will be posting the video once it's edited.
Remember that donations are still being accepted to benefit the Hector Torres UNM Fund and Stefania Gray's children.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
English Department Colloquium: Greg Martin
Professor Greg Martin will be presenting his talk, "Memoir and Transgression" on Thursday, September 23rd in the Department Lounge from 12:30 - 1:45.
Mark your calendars now for the semester's subsequent speakers:
October 6th: Professor David Jones
November 11th: Professor David Dunaway
December 2: Professor Susan Romano
Mark your calendars now for the semester's subsequent speakers:
October 6th: Professor David Jones
November 11th: Professor David Dunaway
December 2: Professor Susan Romano
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Amy Beeder: Publication News
Amy Beeder has work currently in the Kenyon Review and forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review and Threepenny Review. Her second book, Scarab Poetica, will be out from Carnegie Mellon in 2011.
Gray-Torres Conference on Domestic Violence and Stalking: Agenda
Conference is OPEN and FREE. Participants are welcome to drop into any session they find interesting.
Monday, September 27, 2010
8:30-9:00 SUB BALLROOM B
Registration
Silent Auction Opens
Safe Room Opens
Information Tables Open
9:00-10:30 SUB BALLROOM B
Opening Remarks
Plenary: No More Secrets: Opening a Campus Conversation
about Domestic Violence and Stalking.
10:00 SUB MOVIE THEATER, LOWER LEVEL
Film: Generation M
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Concurrent sessions:
Literary and Historical Perspective on Domestic Violence
MIRAGE/THUNDERBIRD
Sorting Dirty Laundry: Domestic and Sexual Violence in African American Families and Communities
SUB BALLROOM B
Domestic Violence Investigations
SPIRIT/TRAILBLAZER
12:00-1:00 Lunch on Own
1:00-2:45 SUB BALLROOM B
Community Resources Panel
1:30 SUB MOVIE THEATER, LOWER LEVEL
Film: Tough Guise
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:45 SUB BALLROOM B
By-stander Training
3:00 SUB MOVIE THEATER, LOWER LEVEL
Film: The Pornography of Everyday Life
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:30-9:00 SUB BALLROOM B
Registration
Silent Auction Opens
Safe Room Opens
Information Tables Open
9:00-10:30 SUB BALLROOM B
Creating a Coordinated Community Response at UNM Working Group
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Personal Safety 101
SPIRIT/TRAILBLAZER
APD Stalking Profiler
SUB BALLROOM B
“Romancing Violence: American Entertainment’s Encouragement of Visual Pleasure in Female Victimization” and “Domestic Violence in Art”
FIESTA A&B
12:00-1:00 SUB BALLROOM B
Orders of Protection and Other Civil Legal Responses to Interpersonal Violence
Legal Aid Lunch—BROWN BAG LUNCH
1:00-2:45 SUB BALLROOM B
NMSAFE TEEN- Teen Dating Violence
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:45 SUB BALLROOM B
Creating a Statewide Impact through Legislation and Policy: Bringing the UNM Community to the Table
4:45
Silent Auction Ends
Safe Room Closes
Information Tables Close
7:00-9:00 SUB SATELLITE
Poetry Readings
Proceeds from the Silent Auction and Poetry Readings will benefit the daughters of Stefania Gray and the Hector Torres Memorial Fund in the Dept. of English
Monday, September 27, 2010
8:30-9:00 SUB BALLROOM B
Registration
Silent Auction Opens
Safe Room Opens
Information Tables Open
9:00-10:30 SUB BALLROOM B
Opening Remarks
Plenary: No More Secrets: Opening a Campus Conversation
about Domestic Violence and Stalking.
Cameron Crandall, Lisa Broidy, Edna Sprague, Quintin McShane (AFAC/NMSP)
10:00 SUB MOVIE THEATER, LOWER LEVEL
Film: Generation M
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Concurrent sessions:
Literary and Historical Perspective on Domestic Violence
MIRAGE/THUNDERBIRD
Sorting Dirty Laundry: Domestic and Sexual Violence in African American Families and Communities
SUB BALLROOM B
Domestic Violence Investigations
SPIRIT/TRAILBLAZER
12:00-1:00 Lunch on Own
1:00-2:45 SUB BALLROOM B
Community Resources Panel
1:30 SUB MOVIE THEATER, LOWER LEVEL
Film: Tough Guise
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:45 SUB BALLROOM B
By-stander Training
3:00 SUB MOVIE THEATER, LOWER LEVEL
Film: The Pornography of Everyday Life
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:30-9:00 SUB BALLROOM B
Registration
Silent Auction Opens
Safe Room Opens
Information Tables Open
9:00-10:30 SUB BALLROOM B
Creating a Coordinated Community Response at UNM Working Group
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Personal Safety 101
SPIRIT/TRAILBLAZER
APD Stalking Profiler
SUB BALLROOM B
“Romancing Violence: American Entertainment’s Encouragement of Visual Pleasure in Female Victimization” and “Domestic Violence in Art”
FIESTA A&B
12:00-1:00 SUB BALLROOM B
Orders of Protection and Other Civil Legal Responses to Interpersonal Violence
Legal Aid Lunch—BROWN BAG LUNCH
1:00-2:45 SUB BALLROOM B
NMSAFE TEEN- Teen Dating Violence
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:45 SUB BALLROOM B
Creating a Statewide Impact through Legislation and Policy: Bringing the UNM Community to the Table
4:45
Silent Auction Ends
Safe Room Closes
Information Tables Close
7:00-9:00 SUB SATELLITE
Poetry Readings
Proceeds from the Silent Auction and Poetry Readings will benefit the daughters of Stefania Gray and the Hector Torres Memorial Fund in the Dept. of English
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Research Lecture: Poetic Vocabulary, BASIC English, and the Art of Robert Creeley
The Department of English and the English Graduate Student Association Present:
Poetic Vocabulary, BASIC English, and the Art of Robert Creeley
A Research Lecture Delivered By:Dr. Matthew Hofer, Assistant Professor of English
Monday, September 20, 2010
1:00pm-2:00pm
SUB—Acoma Rooms A&B
“Every revolution in poetry,” as T. S. Eliot declared, “is apt to be, and sometimes to announce itself to be a return to common speech.” Robert Creeley, a major twentieth-century American poet who earned his M.A. at UNM, aimed to be the author of just such a revolution. This lecture will reveal what Creeley’s enormously influential early style owes to I. A. Richards and C. K. Ogden’s stripped-down artificial language, BASIC English. Hardly designed to be a medium for literature—the acronym stands for British, American, Scientific, Industrial, Commercial—this 850-word vocabulary nevertheless has surprising modernist credentials: in the 1930s it briefly captured Ezra Pound’s imagination and was used to translate James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Dr. Hofer’s lecture will make the case for why BASIC English fascinated Creeley, elucidate what it made possible for an innovative poet after World War II, and explain how the art of a common language matters for literary criticism and history.
The event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Dr. Jesse Alemán
Poetic Vocabulary, BASIC English, and the Art of Robert Creeley
A Research Lecture Delivered By:Dr. Matthew Hofer, Assistant Professor of English
Monday, September 20, 2010
1:00pm-2:00pm
SUB—Acoma Rooms A&B
“Every revolution in poetry,” as T. S. Eliot declared, “is apt to be, and sometimes to announce itself to be a return to common speech.” Robert Creeley, a major twentieth-century American poet who earned his M.A. at UNM, aimed to be the author of just such a revolution. This lecture will reveal what Creeley’s enormously influential early style owes to I. A. Richards and C. K. Ogden’s stripped-down artificial language, BASIC English. Hardly designed to be a medium for literature—the acronym stands for British, American, Scientific, Industrial, Commercial—this 850-word vocabulary nevertheless has surprising modernist credentials: in the 1930s it briefly captured Ezra Pound’s imagination and was used to translate James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Dr. Hofer’s lecture will make the case for why BASIC English fascinated Creeley, elucidate what it made possible for an innovative poet after World War II, and explain how the art of a common language matters for literary criticism and history.
The event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Dr. Jesse Alemán
Friday, September 10, 2010
Poetry Reading
the poet Carolyn Forche will speak and read from her work at UNM Medical School on Thursday, September 16, from noon to 1 p.m. in Dominici 3010.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Gray-Torres Conference on Domestic Violence and Stalking
On September 27-28, 2010, the Gray-Torres Conference on Domestic Violence and Stalking will occur in the SUB Ballrooms, with talks, a silent auction to benefit the children of Stefania Gray children and the Hector Torres Memorial Fund, legislators and non-profit groups, all of which will provide information about Domestic Violence and Stalking and how to help those who are in violent situations.
A finalized agenda will be available later this week.
This event is sponsored by English, Feminist Research Institute (FRI), Women's Studies (WS),Women's Resource Center (WRC), Foreign Language and Literature (FLL), History and other important groups, with participation from the Second Judicial District Attorney.
A finalized agenda will be available later this week.
This event is sponsored by English, Feminist Research Institute (FRI), Women's Studies (WS),Women's Resource Center (WRC), Foreign Language and Literature (FLL), History and other important groups, with participation from the Second Judicial District Attorney.
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