2007-2008 Graduate Initiative
Poetry Reading, Workshop, and Lecture: Simon Jarvis
Organized by Joshua Adams (Comp Lit), Bobby Baird (Divinity School), and Joshua Kotin (English)
Simon Jarvis is the Gorley Putt Senior Lecturer in English Literary History at the University of Cambridge. Professor Jarvis specializes in eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry, philosophical aesthetics, and theories of verse and versification. He is the author of three books: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765 (Oxford, 1995), Adorno: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 1998), and, most recently, Wordsworth’s Philosophic Song (Cambridge, 2006). Professor Jarvis is also a poet; his book-length lyric, The Unconditional, was published by Barque Press in 2005.
Event 1: Poetry reading
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Mr. Jarvis will read selections from his recently published book, The Unconditional, as well as some new work. A reception will follow.
Event 2: Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
12:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Mr. Jarvis will lead a workshop on his current work.
Event 3: Lecture: "Why Rhyme Pleases"
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
5:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Dinner will follow.
These events are generously co-sponsored by Chicago Review and Poem Present.
Lecture by John Beattie: "Policing Eighteenth Century London"
Organized by John Acevedo (History)
Monday, May 19th
5:00pm, Classics 110
John Beattie is a Professor Emeritus of History and Criminology at the University of Toronto. He specialises in early modern English social history, history of crime and criminal administration in England. He is currently writing a book, tentatively titled The First English Detectives: the Rise and Fall of the Bow Street Runners, which will concentrate on Bow Street over the ninety years of its history, from 1750 to 1849. The work carried out by the Bow Street officers has yet to be explored; of particular interest is the process by which suspected offenders were discovered and apprehended - the work of detection. Other areas of interest are the form taken by preliminary hearings at Bow Street into criminal offences, the extent to which the officers helped to prepare cases for trial, and the part they played in trials at the Old Bailey. Selected other publications include Policing and Punishment in London: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press, 1986).
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Early Modern workshop and the Law School.
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