Events

The following one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 continually generates a pleasing random maze pattern. In this talk, I argue that this tiny program can […]

In the late nineteenth century, a socialist workers' movement burst onto the scene in New York City's immigrant Jewish "ghetto." Over subsequent decades and in cities around the country, hundreds […]

Curveship is an interactive fiction (IF) development system that adds support for interactive narrating -- automatic narrative variation that is accomplished through text generation. For 30 years, IF development systems […]

Professor Cooppan’s in-progress Race, Writing, and the Literary World System combines the economic analysis of world systems theory, world literature models of global literary movement, traditional theory and history of […]

The customary critique of Mother Teresa reads her image as a compromised mass commodity, the anointed saint who habitually produces the “third world” as her necessary gutter. While it is […]

Nick Montfort will read from his recent book, Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books, 2010), which contains poems that relate to his work in digital media. These include riddles (figuratively describing […]

The The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series has been cancelled on 01/12/2011 due to illness. Chuck Atkinson will be reading poetry. Sarah Rabkin will be reading from her forthcoming book, […]

How did Algerian Jews respond to and appropriate France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century? The mission to civilize may have been rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of […]

When does it make sense to be uncertain whether it's possible that p? On many accounts of the semantics of epistemic modals, including the one favored by Professor MacFarlane, epistemic […]

As part of the Living Writers Series, Literature and Creative Writing Professor Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her novel, I Hotel; Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award, Fiction. […]