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UW-Eau Claire To Present
Seventh Annual English Festival 

MAILED: April 26, 2002

         EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire English department will sponsor its seventh annual student-run English festival, "Wordstock: Two Days of Text, Fun, and Rock 'n Roll," Wednesday and Thursday, May 1 and 2.
         Following is the schedule for the two-day event. All events are in Davies Center unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, May 1:

• 9-9:50 a.m., "Redefining the Cowboy Archetype: An Examination of Clint Eastwood's Career," Badger Room
• 9-3 p.m., Sigma Tau Delta Book Sale, East Lobby, Davies Center
• 9:30 a.m.-4p.m., Student Art Sale, Ho-Chunk Room,
• 9:30-10:00 a.m., "A Semester in Provence: My Study Abroad Experience," Potawatomi Room
• 10-10:50 a.m., "Toward a New Definition of Tragedy," Arrowhead Room
• 10-10:50 a.m., "Take the 'A' Train to Poetry: Black Poems from the 1920s to Today," Badger Room
• 10-noon, Capstone Presentations, Menominee Room
• 11-11:50 a.m., "Home of the Brash: Perceptions of America by British Comic Book Writers," Arrowhead Room
• 11-11:50 a.m., "One Man Renaissance: the Art and Influence of Bob Dylan," Badger Room
• 11:30-12:20 p.m., "Bill Watterson's Calvinistic/Hobbesian Excursion into Literature," Potowatomi Room
• Noon-12:50 p.m., "Comics Tutorial: We Don't Own 6000 Comics for Nothin," Arrowhead Room
• 1-3 p.m., film presentation of "Daughters of the Dust," Davies Theater
• 1-2 p.m., Capstone Presentations, Menominee Room
• 1-1:50 p.m., "Deconstructing Disney: A Debate," Potawatomi Room
• 1-1:50 p.m., "Language Change and Variation," Wisconsin Room
• 2-3:30 p.m., Creative Writing Workshop with Ray Gonzalez, Alumni Room
• 2-2:50 p.m., "Prostitution of the American Dream: Ginsberg, cummings, and Brautigan," Arrowhead Room
• 2-3 p.m., Capstone Presentations, Ojibwa Room
• 3-3:50 p.m., "Colliding Queens: The Dialogue of Mistress Bradstreet and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz," Arrowhead Room
• 3-3:50 p.m., "Are You Following Me? Conspiracy Theory in Thomas Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49,'" Eagle Room
• 3-4:30 p.m., Capstone Presentations, Ojibwa Room
• 4:30-6 p.m., Sigma Tau Delta's Children's Writing Contest, Davies Theater
• 7-8 p.m., "Self Confidence and the Writer," presented by guest speaker Ray Gonzalez, Schofield Auditorium
• 8-9:30 p.m., Reception for Ray Gonzalez, Presidents Room

Thursday, May 2, 2002:

• 8 a.m.-4:50 p.m., English Game Room, Clearwater Room
• 9-10 a.m., Capstone Presentations, Ho-Chunk Room
• 9-9:50 a.m., "Comic Innovators: Jack Kirby and Will Eisner," Wisconsin Room
• 10-10:50 a.m., "International Politics in Science Fiction," Badger Room
• 10-noon, Capstone Presentations, Menominee Room
• 10-10:50 a.m., "Is Sarah Piatt Emily Dickinson's Long Lost Rival?" Potawatomi Room
• 11-11:50 a.m., "Good Guys Wear Black: Non-Traditional Heroes in Popular Culture," Badger Room
• 11-noon, Capstone Presentations, Ho-Chunk Room
• Noon-2:30 p.m., Capstone Presentations, Ojibwa Room
• Noon-12:50 p.m., "Textual Teachers: Historical Representation in Music," Potawatomi Room
• Noon-12:50 p.m., "Heinous Bitches Throughout the Ages: Taming in '10 Things I Hate About You' and 'The Taming of the Shrew,'" Wisconsin Room
• Noon-12:50 p.m., "Narrative in 10 Dimensions: A Story of Science," Alumni Room
• 1-1:50 p.m., "Towards a New Definition of Tragedy," Arrowhead Room
• 1-3 p.m., Capstone Presentations, Ho-Chunk Room
• 1-2 p.m., Capstone Presentations, Menominee Room
• 1-1:50 p.m., Textual Jeopardy, Tamarack Room
• 2-2:30 p.m., English Festival Raffle Prize Drawing, Arrowhead Room
• 2-3:15 p.m., English 356: Representative Shakespeare Presentations, Menominee Room
• 3-4 p.m., Film presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew," Davies Theater
• 4-5:30 p.m., STIFFE - Student Independent Film Festival, Davies Theater
• 4:30-5:30 p.m., "Intertextuality of Jazz," Potawatomi Room
• 6-6:50 p.m., "Lyrical Literacy: The Transformation of Rap into Literature," Potawatomi Room
• 7-8:30 p.m., Free Performance by Mel Gibson and the Pants, Schofield Auditorium

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Judy Berthiaume
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Updated: April 26, 2002