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10/11/05 (Tues)

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Open House

4:30PM until 6:00PM
In Royce 306
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) invites faculty and students with an interest in Medieval and Renaissance Studies to attend an open house to mark the beginning of the new academic year. Meet the Center's staff and learn about the programs, awards, and fellowships available from CMRS. CMRS Director Brian P. Copenhaver will make some brief remarks at 5 pm. There will also be a small used book sale featuring items of interest to scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Advance registration not required. Stop in and meet us!

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)


10/5/05 (Wed) through 10/16/05 (Sun)

Robert Coover Reads at Hammer Museum

6:00PM
In UCLA Hammer Museum
Robert Coover Reads at Hammer Museum

Author and noted electronic literature critic Robert Coover will read from his recent work on Sunday, October 16 at 6:00 p.m. at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Amount Coover's works are _Pricksongs and Descants_, _The Public Burning_, and _The Origin of the Brunists_, which won the William Faulker Award in 1966. He currently teaches electronic and experimental writing at Brown University.

Also on the program is fiction writer and O. Henry Prize- winner Brian Evenson, author of _Altmann's Tongue_ and _Dark Property: An Affliction_. He is an associate professor in the literary arts program at Brown University.

This event is part of the UCLA Hammer Museum's New American Writing series, organized and hosted by Benjamin Weissman, and is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit Parking information and directions are available at -- submitted by (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)


10/21/05 (Fri)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

7:00PM until 8:00PM
In 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles 90024
W. S. Merwin will be our guest speaker.

W. S. Merwin's most recent books of poems are Present Company and Migration: New & Selected Poems.

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (doris@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu


 
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