HAW! Fall 2011 Schedule
September 22: 8:15 PM Aaron’s Place
Sally and Richard Price’s Equatoria
October 14: TBD
Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
HAW! Fall 2010 Schedule
September 23: 8PM Heather’s Place
Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons.
Sunday, October 24: Better than Billy Graham. 8PM Aaron’s House
This will be a unique HAW event, however, in that all participants will be presenting their own writing (see Aaron’s previous email for the “prompt”[or e-mail the listserv if you need a copy]). Please email your piece to Heather by sometime on Wednesday October 20th so that I can figure out how many participants we will have and to decide how papers should be distributed beforehand.
November 18th, 8PM, Details to follow.
We’ll be meeting with local writer Amy Reading (Amy was in the American Studies Program at Yale with Aaron). Some of you may remember when we met with Aaron a year ago and read a chapter from her work-in-progress on con artistry in America. Well, Amy has gotten a book contract, and she’ll be workshopping her entire manuscript with us. Many of us loved the chapter we read, and I’m very much looking forward to reading the whole thing.
December 9, 8PM, Place TBA
We’ll read Timothy B. Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name. It’s sort of a memoir/personal meditation written by a well-regarded academic, and it seems to be getting a lot of press.
Historians Are Writers!
Spring 2010 Schedule
January 28th: Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children.
February 16th: Heather “We were to live in the neighborhood as nurses”: Lillian Wald and the Henry Street Settlement from her dissertation-in-process. Heather’s house (The Lemon Laser).
March 4th: Evening with Rob Vanderlan and his soon-to-be-distributed essays. Aaron’s house.
March 31st: Lunchtime meeting with local author Brian Hall. We’ll discuss his book Fall of Frost: A Novel. Room TBD, 12:30 PM.
April 14th: Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History. Place TBD, 8:15 PM.
May 8th: History Slam II. McGraw 366, 3-7 PM, party afterwards. Much more on this to come…
Historians Are Writers!
Fall 2009 Schedule
September 3rdth. Organizational, Introductory Meeting. With Sandwiches.
Uris 450. 12:15-1:30ish.
Come for lunch and a general demystification of who we are.
September 24th. Innovation Inside the Academy.
8PM Aaron’s place.
James Goodman, Blackout.
October 15th. The Fiction Meeting.
8PM Heather’s House, (The Lemon Laser), 128 Linn St.
J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians.
November 3rd. IIA Part 2.
8PM Julie’s Place, 428 N. Tioga.
Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife.
November 13th. Can Academic Writing Be Creative–And Moving?
A Discussion with Historians about Their Works in Progress.
12 Noon, American Studies Brown Bag discussion with Prof. Martha Hodes (NYU), McGraw 101.
November 20th. Can Academic Writing Be Creative–And Moving?
A Discussion with Historians about Their Works in Progress. Part II.
12 Noon, American Studies Brown Bag discussion with Prof. James Goodman (Rutgers), McGraw 101.
December 1st. IIA Part 3.
8PM Julie’s place, 428 N. Tioga.
E.B. White, Here Is New York
Sandy Zipp, TBD.
December 4th. Can Academic Writing Be Creative–And Moving?
A Discussion with Historians about Their Works in Progress. Part III.
12 Noon, American Studies Brown Bag discussion with Prof. Sandy Zipp (Brown), McGraw 101.
Historians are Writers!
Spring 2009 Schedule: The Writing Semester…
February 4th: Ben Wang.
February 18th: Daegan Miller.
March 4th: Anna Geltzer.
March 6th: Amy Reading, Independent Scholar.
March 25th: Katie Proctor.
April 1st: Melissa Gniadek.
April 16th and 17th: John Demos (Yale): Head and Heart History: A Minifesto
April 22nd: Sarah Ensor.
May 6th: Heather
Writing History Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, October 30th
Rockefeller 112, 4:30 PM.
A discussion with Professors Ray Craib, Holly Case, Ed Baptist, and Barry Strauss.
What does it mean to be a historian AND a writer? What is the point of writing in academia, what is it that we are trying to do with our written work? How do we handle the narrative/analytical balance? How does one even get started?
Join our panelists as they present their own thoughts on the process and practice of writing. Afterward, the floor will be opened to a free-flowing discussion between grad students and professors, those of us who are dreaming about writing a book, and those who have actually written one (or more).
Fall 2008 Schedule
September 12th. Organizational, Introductory Meeting. With Sandwiches.
A.D. White House, Room 201. 12:15-1:30ish.
Come for lunch, a general demystification of who we are, and the distribution of next week’s articles.
September 18th. Pushing Out from the Inside: Three Academics, Three Creative Essays.
8PM Aaron’s place.
James Goodman, “For the Love of Stories,” 20 pages (originally published in Reviews in American History, 1998);
Greg Dening, “Writing, rewriting the beach: an essay,” 25 pages, (from the edited collection, Experiments in Rethinking History)
Robert Rosenstone, “Space for the Bird to Fly,” 8 pages, (from the edited collection, Manifestos for History).
October 2nd. Creative Non-Fiction.
8PM Aaron’s place.
John McPhee, The Survival of the Bark Canoe.
October 30th. Writing History Roundtable Discussion.
A discussion with four Cornell historians – Professors Holly Case, Ray Craib, Ed Baptist, and Barry Strauss – about their own writing practices. Come with questions for our panelists.
October 23rd. Popular History!?; or, Why David McCullough’s Books Sell Better Than Yours.
8PM Heather’s place.
David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History.
November 13th. Of Novelists and History.
8PM Aaron’s place.
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz.
December 4th. Creativity and the Academy.
8PM Heather’s place.
Simon Schama, Dead Certainties.
Historians Are Writers! Spring 2008 Schedule
Jan. 29th. Organizational Meeting
12:15 pm. 105 Stimpson Hall
Feb. 13th. On Craft
8PM Heather’s place
Christopher Lasch, Plain Style; Section V of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style; Wallace Stegner, “The Law of Nature and the Dream of Man: Ruminations on the Art of Fiction,” in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West.
March 5th. Writing Erasure and Loss
8PM Aaron’s place.
Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin.
March 26th. Voices from the Academy.
8PM Heather’s place.
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre; “The Refashioning of Martin Guerre,” and “On the Lame,” both in the American Historical Review 93, 3 (1988).
April 16th. Return of the Writer and the Academy Strikes Back.
8PM Heather’s place.
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace; and the Roundtable Discussion on Alias Grace in the American Historical Review, 103, 5 (1998).
May 7th. Academics Anonymous.
8PM Aaron’s place.
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route.
