Proust event on Oct. 28 at Columbia

The “Forum Series” (including “Open Forum” and “Proust Forum”) are on hiatus. Meanwhile, if you are interested in Proust, there is a talk about In Search of Lost Time next week at Columbia. See below:

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Marcel Proust: A Conversation
http://www.centerforfiction.org/events/readings.php#proustcon

Antoine Compagnon and Adam Gopnik discuss

Á la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) In English
Wednesday, October 28th at 7pm
Maison Française at Columbia University

This event is cosponsored by The Proust Society of America, a program of The Center for Fiction; Maison Française at Columbia University; and The French-American Foundation.

Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. On Proust, after editing Du côté de chez Swann and Sodome et Gomorrhe, he published Proust entre deux siècles. Compagnon is also a professor at the Collège de France and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Acclaimed journalist, lecturer and author Adam Gopnik is a three-time National Magazine Award winner and recipient of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986.

Seating is very limited to this event so you must RSVP. Please e-mail the Center at events (at) centerforfiction.org or call us at 212-755-6710 to reserve a spot.

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Salon night changed to Thursday

The weekly “DSO Salon” bar night is now set for Thursdays. Time and location remain the same: 9pm at Grassroots Tavern.

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Fall Forum Series

Open Forum

We had a good turnout for the first session two weeks ago. The “Open Forum” will continue on a bi-weekly schedule. This is a no-pressure space for brief (room reserved for only 45 minutes!) conversations serious and/or absurd. We often provide wine, cheese, and other edibles. Guest presentations are welcome; try out your project or paper ideas on us. Or just come and chat.

Next session:
Wednesday Oct. 7, 8:30pm-9:15pm, KJCC Room 109
See “Schedule” page for upcoming dates.

Proust Forum

A supportive group to help Draper students -and friends- complete Proust’s novel, In Search of Lost Time. The following dates are tentative and flexible. We will read about 50 pp per week, or 200 pp per month. Full reading list will be provided in a separate post. Meanwhile, if interested, begin reading the first volume, Swann’s Way, any edition or language. RSVP requested!

October
– Vol. 1, Part 1, Combrary & critical article(s), to be provided for those who have already read Vol. 1
November
– Vol. 1, Part 2, Swann in Love
December
– Vol 1, Part 3, The Name & Vol. 2, Part 3, Madame Swann at Home

Additional weekend readings or outings are possible, depending on interest.

Thesis Writers Forum

Unfortunately, canceled for the Fall semester, due to limited interest and scheduling conflicts. If interested in forming a group for the Spring semester, please email suggestions or questions. This can be for both those writing their theses during Spring 2010, and those planning to write during subsequent semesters.

Contact: draperforum(at)gmail.com

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Volunteer with DSO for New York Cares Day

We’d like to do more than drink and verbally spar with each other. How about spending a day on our feet, getting our hands dirty, and helping spruce up a New York City school?

Join DSO’s team for New York Cares Day
on Saturday October 17:
http://www.newyorkcaresday.org/dso

(or support our efforts with a small donation)

Registration deadline is Oct. 9 Oct. 13

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sneak peek of DSO Fall 2009

Take a look at what DSO has planned for Fall semester: DSO Forum Schedule.

Events start this coming week. Full details and descriptions to come shortly!

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Anamesa Update – new issue online & call for papers/art

Anamesa Perception Issue!

The long-awaited Perception issue is now online. Visit www.anamesajournal.org to peruse the journal and to view the open call for
submissions for the upcoming Intersections issue. For more information on available 2009 staff positions, or other feedback and inquiries, contact us at anamesa.journal at gmail.com. (Hardcopies of the Perception issue will be available in the Draper and CLACS offices at the beginning of September.)

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Calling all editors! Readers! Designers! Programmers! Everyone! Anamesa’s back!

What? Start-up team meeting for the graduate journal, Anamesa
Who? Anyone interested. No experience necessary.
When? Tuesday, July 21 at 5:30pm
Where? Dojo Restaurant 14 W. 4th Street (corner of W. 4th & Mercer)
Why? Appetizers on us! (Oh, and the chance to be part of an amazing team project.)

Anamesa is an interdisciplinary journal of graduate works, run and published jointly by the students of the Draper Program and CLACS (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). Usually published twice a year, the journal has been quiet for the last couple of semesters. But, plans are now in the works to jumpstart it again—beginning with a joint issue covering the past fall and spring—and we need your help!

All interested in being part of the team should plan to meet for appetizers on the patio at Dojo Restaurant, 14 W. 4th Street (corner of W. 4th and Mercer) at 5:30pm, next Tuesday, the 21st. Please RSVP to Anna Bardaus at alb469(at)nyu.edu so we can get a head count. If you can’t RSVP in time, don’t let that stop you—come anyway!

Available jobs include: editors, proofreaders, designers and art directors, publicists, webmasters, and more. No prior experience necessary. Just a keen eye, a few hours a week, and lots of enthusiasm for the promotion of critical and artistic expression.

If you have any questions, contact Anna Bardaus at alb469(at)nyu.edu, or DSO President Myong Chin myc266(at)nyu.edu. Also, check out past issues of Anamesa at http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/anamesa/index.htm.

See you there!

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We’re still here! — Summer DSO activities

Apologies for the silence on this blog lately! We have just started up a Proust reading/support group for the summer, and have a few plans in the works for various outings in the city. More details to come…

Meanwhile, only the second meeting for the Proust group is coming up this Monday.
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July 6, 5:00pm
Washington Square Park, meet by south side of fountain

Reading: first 50 pages of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Volume I Swann’s Way
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Apr. 29, 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Last meeting of the semester!
-open forum-
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Dalkey Archive Press events in NYC

Here are more links of possible interest.
Dalkey Archive has been publishing neat stuff. Experimental literature, a lot of international and translated literature, some interesting criticism/theory… They are holding events in New York, a few as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Discussions include: “The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction,” “Writers Who are Translators” …

Filed under: NYC Events