Area Events please let us know about your event   Some upcoming George Mason events include...   Call for Papers Gendered Visualities A Visual Culture Symposium and Exhibition at George Mason University March 1, 2005 Gendered Visualities is a one-day symposium featuring panels of speakers/presentations, an exhibition of artwork submitted specifically for the symposium and in relation to its theme, a keynote speaker and reception with performance.   The symposium is sponsored by a number of departments and programs at the University – including Art and Visual Technology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, English, New Century College, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Women's Studies - as well as other organizations, including the publication Global Tryst and the Research Institute for Global Cultural Studies. Submissions from a broad range of disciplinary approaches, periods and mediums are welcome.  We are interested in examining how gender is visualized or how visuality is gendered. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to elgorman@msn.com .   The deadline for this call for papers is February 1, 2005. We hope you will forward this announcement to your list serves for faculty, students, and others who may be Interested. Papers from undergraduate and graduate students in English that are chosen for the symposium panels will be considered for publication in the spring/fall 2005 issue of English Matters Lynne Constantine Associate Chair, Art and Visual Technology Assistant Professor, Art and Visual Technology Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies George Mason University lconstan@gmu.edu Cynthia Patterson Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies Instructor, English Department George Mason University cpatter3@gmu.edu Ellen Gorman Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies, George Mason University Instructor, English Department, George Washington University elgorman@msn.com ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WEDNESDAY EVENING SERIES 5:55-7:10pm INNOVATION HALL 103 Stucture/Form Feb.11: Dean Taciuch: "Hypertext and Literary Form." Intro to English Matters Issue 8 Feb.18: Margaret Yocom: "Have you heard the one about the babysitter who...?" Folklore, Contemporary Legends, Oral Traditions and Narrative Form. Point of View Feb.25: Rosemary Jann: "Point of View in Fiction" March 3: Jeanette Roan: "Point of View in Film" March 17: Rick Davis: "Drama and Point of View: Henry IV Part I" Language March 24: Douglas Wulf: "A Linguistic Exploration of English: Sound, Structure, Meaning" March 31: Eric Pankey and Jennifer Atkinson: "Michael Ondaatje's Poetry" Interpretation/Synthesis April 8 (Thursday): Viewing of The English Patient, JC Cinema: 6 & 9 pm (introduction by Peter Brunette) April 14: Panel on The English Patient: Amal Amireh (English); Marion Deshmukh ((History); Sheila ffolliott (Art History); Sheryl Beach (Geography and Computational Sciences) April 21: (free period for work on next week's poster sessions) April 28: Student Poster Sessions: SUB II Ballroom SPRING 2004 Film Series (free to students/$1 for faculty/staff) For more information visit http://www.gmu.edu/student/soap (click on JC Cinema for full schedule) DC Poetry  lists many DC area poetry events at http://www.dcpoetry.com          Universities George Mason University http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writing/are.html Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/english/lannan/description.htm University of Maryland http://www.inform.umd.edu/ENGL/announce.html George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~english/readings.htm American University http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/lit/mfa-visi.htm Catholic University http://www.acad.cua.edu/as/engl/calendar.htmÝÝ General Washington Post Literary Calendar http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/literarycalendar.htm Washington City Paper http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/events.shtml Library of Congress Calendar http://www.loc.gov/loc/events Folger Poetry Series http://www.folger.edu/public/poetry/readings.htm PEN/Faulkner Reading Series http://www.folger.edu/public/pfaulk/events.htm The Writers Center--Bethesda, MD http://www.iawco.com/wc/events.htm Book Stores Atticus Used Books & Music http://www.atticusbooks.com/readings.html Politics & Prose http://www.politics-prose.com/calendar.htm