Graduate Colloquium Series
Graduate Colloquium Series
The Graduate Colloquium Series is a student-run initiative aimed at providing an important avenue for graduate students to present their work to their peers and to prepare themselves for conferences and job talks. It offers us all a broader forum for discussion of individual research interests and works to strengthen our intellectual community.
Fall 2008
The year's first grad colloquium will be held Monday, November 17th at 4pm in Hurst Lounge. The presenters are
Rob Patterson: "Blurred Boundaries in Mandeville's Travels: Binding the Matter of the Holy Land and the Matter of the East"
Dalia Oppenheimer: "Where Do Woolf's 'Daughters of Educated Men' Go? To the Lighthouse."
A reception will follow. We hope to see everyone there!
A Note on Submissions
Panelists will evaluate the following aspects of submitted papers:
- Argument
Does the paper make a clear, focused argument? Is it primarily polemical (responding to existing perspectives) or analytical (focused on the close examination of the primary material and only secondarily engaged in a conversation with other perspectives)? Will it provoke reaction and response at the colloquium? - Relevance
Does the paper suggest that its author has a good sense of the field into which he/she enters? Does the author engage with current and/or canonical approaches to his/her material? - Presentation
Is the paper well-organized? Is there evidence that the author has thought about the oral delivery of the paper? What aspects make it more or less suited for oral presentation? (Since presentation is an important aspect of the paper delivery but secondary to the quality of the argument, panelists might make suggestions on how to improve the formal organization of the paper if the argument is strong and worthy of public recital.)
Note: panelists will have these questions in mind when they read and
discuss submissions with each other, but these questions are set forth
as guides
and not as final selection criteria.