Welcome Back--Upcoming Changes

Welcome to the 2009-2010 academic year! As part of our preparations for the fall semester we will be updating the EGO website frequently for the next few weeks. First of all, Google is ending the Google Pages hosting program and switching all content to Google Sites. The main EGO website will automatically transfer over to Google Sites soon. The old URL will redirect to the new site, so disruptions will be minimal, but you will see some changes before and after the transfer. We will also be adding a calendar that will synthesize departmental events, deadlines, social events, and events outside the department into one easy to access place. Another useful update will be a new page that will cover all of our reading groups. This page will provide group descriptions, current readings, meeting dates, and contact information for someone in charge of the group. In addition, there will be a new “Guide to Syracuse” page with helpful links and recommendations for basic information from the best study spots to how to find a good dentist in the area. This page will continue to evolve for a while, and any suggestions from those of us who are more familiar with the Syracuse area would be much appreciated. For EGO members we will also be adding a new listserv that will allow students in the department to contact each other when looking for a specific book that has been checked out of the library. We hope that all of these changes will make the EGO website more dynamic and useful for current and prospective students.

Spring Speaker Series: Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree and Wai Chee Dimock

The English Graduate Organization's Speaker Series has two exciting speakers lined up for this spring, with talks by Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, and Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.

Dr. Murphree's talk, "Reading Cinema Globally: A cinema of failure," will be held this Friday, April 3rd, in Hall of Languages room 207, at 3:30 pm. A screening of Jia Zhang Ke's film Still Life will be included in the presentation.



Dr. Dimock's talk, "Three Wars: Henry James and Others," is scheduled for Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm in the Killian Room (Hall of Languages 500).