The Edmund and Nathalie Rumowicz Endowed Literature and the Sea Seminar/Lecture Series

and

Annual Maritime Essay Contest

 


An Afternoon Colloquium
“Meditation by the Sea”
24 April 2006

 

University of Rhode Island
URI Foundation
Department of English

 

Program

Part I: Award Luncheon
12:30-2:00 PM, URI Foundation
Part II: Annual Lecture
3:00-4:00 PM, University Club


Award Luncheon

12:30-12:35 PM:
Opening Comments
Matthew Frankel, Assistant Professor
Department of English
Director, Rumowicz Program in Literature and the Sea
12:35-12:40 PM: Welcoming Remarks
Robert Carothers, President
University of Rhode Island
12:40-1:10 PM: LUNCH
1:10-1:15 PM: The Personal Log as Maritime Literature and History
Commodore Henry H. Anderson, Jr.
1:15-1:20 PM: Sea Struck
Edmund S. Rumowicz

 

 Award Ceremony

 

1:20-1:30 PM: Up From Algae
Trianna Testoni
Third Prize
1:30-1:40 PM: My Body Lies Over the Sea:
Melville, Deleuze, and a Mapping of the Self
Adam Langlais

Second Prize
1:40-1:50 PM: My Kind of Place
Jenna Wood
First Prize
1:50-2:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Matthew Frankel


Annual Lecture
University Club



3:00-4:00 PM: Writing the Sea: Scientists and Nineteenth-Century Voyaging
Helen M. Rozwadowski, Assistant Professor
Department of History
Coordinator, Maritime Studies
University of Connecticut, Avery Point

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

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