Barnard Literary Events:

Sponsored by the English Department:

The Barnard English Department is happy to announce Writers at Barnard, a new centralized program for readings by creative writers.  It will incorporate the Women Poets series and readings by Barnard English Department authors, visiting authors, and student writers.  The next event in the series:

Student Writers
will reading from their work on
Thursday, Dec. 10th at 7 p.m.
in Sulzberger Parlor (click for details.)

For a complete schedule of the series for the current academic year, visit our Reading Schedule Summary.

Co-Sponsored by the English Department:

* Barnard Hall (3009 Broadway): Held Auditorium is on the 3rd floor, the James Room is on the 4th floor.

The English Department also maintains two listserves: one for Women Poets events and one to which we pass on announcements of literary events in the area sent the department.  If you would like to receive email reminders from either of these lists, please contact us at english [at] barnard [dot] edu.

Margarethe von Trotta has been described by her peers and by film critics throughout the world as "one of the world's great directors" (James Monaco, The Encyclopedia of Film) and as "the world's leading feminist filmmaker" (Cathy Acker, Bulletin of Vancouver Film Festival 2006).  In the early years of her career, she was also an award-sinning screen actress who starred in major films by German directors Rainer Fassbinder and Volker Schlondorff, most notably in "Coup de Grace."  Her film "Marianne and Juliane" won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Film and Best Director and her other films--"Rosenstrasse," "Sheer Madness," "Sisters," "Rosa Luxemburg," and others-- have received numerous international awards.  SALMAGUNDI magazine is about to bring out a special issue devoted to this great German film-maker.  One of von Trotta's latest feature films, "The Other Woman," starring Barbara Sukowa, which has never been released in the United States, will be available as a dvd, sealed inside a special issue of SALMAGUNDI.  Barnard's English Department is co-sponsoring this event with SALMAGUNDI to help launch this issue of the magazine.

Links to Barnard affiliated Reading Series of Interest:

Africana Studies and the Forum on Migration sometimes offer readings or lectures.  Click on their program names here for more information. You may also check the Barnard Events Calendar and Columbia University Arts Initiative.

Barnard's Books Etc.'s last event was a reading and talk by Stacey D'Erasmo on Thursday, April 20th, 2006 in Sulzberger Parlor.

Non-Barnard Reading Series:

• The Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series (at the 92nd Street Y) offers discount tickets to anyone under the age of 35. For more information on this and other events and classes: www.92y.org/poetry
  
  
• Symphony Space (at Broadway and 95th) offers many different readings as well a group of programs focusing short stories: http://www.symphonyspace.org/
  
  
• Book Culture has several types of events, both in their store and elsewhere.  Visit their home page and click on "Events" in their menu on the left.

page last updated 11/20/09