EGSA Digest 02.15.13

EGSA,
Get ready. Incoming meteorites (and prospective students and lectures).

Announcements

President Kilpatrick’s Declaration on the Prospective Stuent Weekend, Fri.-Sat., 1-2 Mar.

• Greetings to all and sundry: I send you this note so that you can consider yourself officially invited to the prospective student weekend’s happenings on the afternoon of Friday, March 1, and the morning of Saturday, March 2. This is the first time the department is holding such an event, and Dr. Barcus has asked that the graduate students be a strong presence at the event, as he thinks we are one of the better selling points for the department. Consider yourself honored. Seriously, though, your attendance at these events–an afternoon reception/ meet’n’greet and a brunch-ish meet’n’greet the next day–is very important both for the department and for the graduate students as a body. As I hope is true for all of us, the welcome from the graduate students is often one of the more hospitable elements of the whole graduate school application shebang, so pay it forward. And other cliches.

Voting

• Remember to execute your civic duty before 5pm today in the matter of the New Student Orientation Chairs.
• If technology is on my side, the link below should take you to the ballot:

Vote for 2013 New Student Orientation Chairs

Upcoming Events

PROFF Workshop – Finding Fit: Conducting a Discerning Job Search, Mon., 18 Feb., 6:15-7:45pm, Draper 152

• Here’s your second tip: Knowing someone on the inside who will just give you a good job is always a good “fit.”
• A little more where that came from. Consider checking it out.

Lecture, Tues., 19 Feb., 5-6pm, Alexander Reading Room

• Susanna Barsella, “The Scriba and the Sculptor: Art and Theology of Work in Dante’s Commedia”
• Do random palabras in other languages annoy the inferno out of anyone else?

Downton Abbey, Tues., 19 Feb., 5:00-6:15pm, CS 101

• Yeah. It’s a pattern.

Lecture, Thurs., 21 Feb., 3:30-5:00pm, Bennett Auditorium

• David I. Smith, “Teaching and Christian Practice”
• I don’t have a whole lot to work with here. His name is David Smith. And he’s calling it “Teaching and Christian Practice.” Well played, David Smith.

Lecture, Fri., 22 Feb., 5-6pm, Baines Room

• Kyla Ebels-Duggan, “The Right, the Good, and the Threat of Despair – (Kantian) Ethics and the Need for Hope in God” For a second there I thought this was going to be just another overtly Kantian lecture.

20-21CRS, Fri., 22 Feb., 2:30-3:30pm, 4th Floor Faculty Lounge

• “Lanta Davis and James Watson on Hemingway and Religion in the 4th Floor Faculty Lounge”
• I suppose Watson and religion is kind of funny, too. Not “ha ha” funny, but, you know, “that one never gets old” funny.

Lecture, Tues., 26 Feb., 3:30-5:00pm, Bennett Auditorium

• Deborah Cohen, “Children Who Disappeared – Intellectual Disabilities and the Family, 1870-1945”
• You have to draw the line somewhere.

Lecture, Wed., 27 Feb., 3:00-4:30pm, Bennett Room

• Deborah Cohen, “Other People’s Bastards – Adoption and Illegitimacy in Twentieth Century Britain”
• Dr. Cohen must not realize that in the South you need to clarify your apostrophes: Is that “The Bastards of Other People” or “Other People Is Bastards”?

Don’t forget to vote!

Jeremy Leatham

EGSA Secretary