Events
The Fall 2009 schedule of events has concluded for this semester.
FALL 2009
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 at 12:45 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men featuring Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology.
Program: To a growing list of books about the myths and mysteries of American boys and young males, Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, adds this deft exploration grounded in research. Published by HarperCollins, Guyland is based on more than 400 interviews over a four-year span with young men, ages 16–26. "Michael Kimmel's Guyland could save the humanity of many young men—and the sanity of their friends and parents—by explaining the forces behind a newly extended adolescence. With accuracy and empathy, he names the problem and offers compassionate bridges to adulthood."- Gloria Steinem
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)
Sponsor: University Libraries.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 at 12:45 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York featuring April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History.
Program: Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist.
She was not alone. Forced to become self-supporting by financial panics and civil war, thousands of young women moved to New York City between 1850 and 1880 to pursue careers as professional artists. In her latest book Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York, April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History, recaptures the unfamiliar cultural landscape in which spirited young women, daring social reformers, and radical artisans succeeded in reuniting art and industry.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)
Sponsor: University Libraries.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 at 12:45 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg featuring Robert P. Crease, Professor of Philosophy.
Program: Robert Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history in The Great Equations. Was Nobel laureate Richard Feynman really joking when he called Maxwell's electromagneticequations the most significant event of the nineteenth century? How did Newton's law of gravitation influence young revolutionaries? Why has Euler's formula been called "God's equation," and why did a mysterious ecoterrorist make it his calling card? What role do betrayal, insanity, and suicide play in the second law of thermodynamics? Crease explains the significance of each of these formulas for science and, in brief "interludes" between chapters, explores the "journeys" these scientists took "from ignorance to knowledge," and the "social lives" of their theories-their impact on the larger culture.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)
Sponsor: University Libraries.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 at 12:45 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture featuring Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English.
Program: Hotter Than That, the latest book by Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in royal courts and on battlefields, and ultimately to its stunning appropriation by great jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. "This is the smartest book about a single musical instrument that I've ever read. Like Miles Davis, who attended Juilliard and apprenticed with Charlie Parker,
Krin Gabbard turns his immense learning into lines that are quick, witty, and irresistibly alluring." - Robert G. O'Meally, founder of The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)
Sponsor: University Libraries.
SPRING 2009
MONDAY, APRIL 13 - FRIDAY, MAY 29 at the Charles B. Wang Center, Lower Level Lobby
SPECIAL ENCORE EXHIBITION
"A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History: View Selections from the World's Largest English-Language Chinese Cookbook Collection"
Savor and digest the history of Chinese cuisine at a dramatic exhibition of the Jacqueline M. Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection. Stony Brook University's collection includes more than 3,000 cookbooks - from the oldest to the smallest to the longest, and everything in between - as well as many other fascinating culinary items.
Sponsored by the Office of the President and the University Libraries.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 at 4 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine featuring Dr. Shetal Shah, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University Medical Center.
Program: In fourteen distinct narratives, Dr. Shetal Shah outlines in Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine not just the medical cases that make one a physician, but the personal stories, anecdotes, and relationships that each doctor brings to the bedside. From inner-city New York to the streets of Cuba to rural towns in Kenya, he guides you through his unique world, where the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the bedside of a fragile, premature infant in New York are not far apart.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library) - Free and Open to All.
Sponsor: University Libraries.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009 FROM 12:30 - 2 p.m. at the Charles B. Wang Center, Room 301
"Cooking from China’s Fujian Province" special lecture featuring food historian and scholar Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman. Reception follows with Fujianese food tasting.
Fujian, a province in southeastern China, boasts a distinct culinary tradition that enjoys a thousand year old recorded history but is barely known in the Western world. Dr. Newman's latest book includes fascinating cultural and historical notes and features a collection of 200 easy to follow, authentic recipes that provide the perfect introduction to this unique cuisine. “Through her insightful writing and well-researched recipes, Ms. Newman is casting much-deserved light on the wonderful Fujian cooking and culture. Her scholarly approach and keen eye for detail make this book a joy to read and a real keeper for any library and kitchen.” -- Martin Yan, cookbook author and chef of TV cookery programs
FREE and Open to All. Sponsored by the University Libraries.
MONDAY, APRIL 20 at 4 p.m. at the Charles B. Wang Center, Lower Lobby
Program, Readings, and Reception for the Herstory Writers Workshop Archive
Erika Duncan, founder of Herstory Writers Workshop, is an acclaimed novelist and essayist whose work many Long Islanders know from her monthly front-page features in the New York Times (Long Island Weekly) during the 1990s, has selected Special Collections at Stony Brook University Libraries as the official repository for the Herstory Writers Workshop Archive and for her personal papers. Ms. Duncan will discuss the mission and work of Herstory Writers Workshop, a community memoir-writing project that provides women from all walks of life with a unique set of tools to help them turn their memories into literary works of art. More than 2000 women on Long Island have participated in the Herstory project, including women from Long Island's Latina community and women incarcerated in Suffolk County's prisons. A manual, Paper Stranger: Shaping Stories in Community, was recently published and brings this empathy-based approach to national and international audiences. The archive includes a sizable collection of papers from the Woman's Salon, a New York City-based network that met for ten years in Erika Duncan's Westbeth apartment, founded to give audience support and serious critical attention to works of writers who were not well known. Emerging works of now-known feminist writers such as Susan Griffin, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Blanche Wiesen Cook, and Olga Broumas were participants.
Please join us at this reception that will include readings from participants in the Herstory Writers Workshop and celebrate the archive at Stony Brook University.
Sponsored by the West Campus Chapter of United University Professions, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Center for Working Class Life, the Women's Studies Program, the Wang Center, the School of Social Welfare, and Special Collections. Free and open to all.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 at 12:45 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History featuring Nicholas Rzhevsky, Professor and Chair, Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Program: This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the 20 th and 21 st centuries encompasses the major productions of directors that drew from Russian and world literature. It is the result of more than two decades of research and the author's professional experience working with the Russian director Yuri Liubimov. The book traces the transformation of literary works into the brilliant stagecraft that characterizes Russian theater.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)
Sponsor: University Libraries.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009
In celebration of Chinese New Year, a selection of Chinese cookbooks from the Jacqueline M. Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection will be on display at the Ward Melville Heritage Organization's Educational and Cultural Center in Stony Brook Village. For more information, visit: http://www.wmho.org/WMHOEventCalendar.asp
SPECIAL EXHIBITION and RECEPTION
"A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History: View Selections from the World's Largest English-Language Chinese Cookbook Collection"
Savor and digest the history of Chinese cuisine at a dramatic new exhibition of the Jacqueline M. Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection. Stony Brook University's collection includes more than 3,000 cookbooks - from the oldest to the smallest to the longest, and everything in between - as well as many other fascinating culinary items. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind visual banquet for everyone interested in one of the world's greatest civilizations.
Special Reception
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 5 p.m.
FREE and Open to the Public
To R.S.V.P., please call (631) 632-6320
Exhibit runs Monday, April 28 - Friday, May 30
Charles B. Wang Center, Main Lobby
Stony Brook University
Sponsored by the Office of the President and the University Libraries.
For a disability-related accommodation, call (631) 632-6270.
THURSDAY, April 17 at 4 p.m.
Melville Library Author Series: Italy Today:
Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium featuring
author and Stony Brook Distinguished Service Professor, Mario
B. Mignone.
Program: Italy Today is a concise narrative
of the nation's stunning transformation from the ashes of World War II
to the leading economic and cultural power it is today. This book provides
insights into the dynamics of Italy's progression from the Second World
War, through the anthropologically revolutionary 1970s and '80s, and
into the complexities of a postindustrial nation, negotiating the challenges
created by industrial, economic, and cultural globalization. Encompassing
the cultural, political, and economic spectrums, topics include: communism;
socialism; foreign relations; terrorism; industrial and social transformations;
education; emigration and immigration; family tradition; feminism; the
transformation of class and gender roles; political favoritism and corruption;
popular culture; culture and civil society; the broader problems of the
development of civil society and the rule of law in southern Italy; and
the role of politics in shaping contemporary Italy. The book devotes
particular attention to the controversial issues of the role of the family
in Italian society and economy, the insidious presence of the Mafia,
the lasting influence of Catholicism, the impact of television, and the
country's often unstable politics, framing all these as the result of
a complex and unique relationship between the individual and the state,
with the family acting as intermediary.
Location: Center for Italian Studies (4th floor of the
Melville Library)
Sponsors: The Center for Italian Studies and the University
Libraries.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 at 4 p.m. - CANCELED
Melville Library Author Series
African American Literature
and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison
Program featuring faculty author Tracey L. Walters, Associate Professor
of Africana Studies
Location: Javits Room, Melville Library, 2nd floor
Program: In her book African
American Literature and the Classicist Tradition, professor Tracey
L. Walters' comparative analysis of classical revisions by 18th
and 19th century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline
Hopkins and 20th century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison,
and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical
myths for artistic and political agency. Her study demonstrates that
women rework myth to represent mythical stories from the Black female
perspective and to counteract denigrating contemporary cultural and social
myths that disempower and devalue Black womanhood. Through their adaptations
of classical myths about motherhood, Wheatley, Ray, Brooks, Morrison,
and Dove uncover the shared experiences of mythic mothers and their contemporary
African American counterparts thus offering a unique Black feminist perspective
to classicism. The women also use myth as a liberating space where they
can 'speak the unspeakable' and empower their subjects as well as themselves.
“Not many scholars have the opportunity
to trail blaze and publish a seminal work; Walters has a just that, and
will make a major impact on scholarship in Classics, Black Studies, and
Comparative Literature. Walters’ work fosters discussion on how
black women have used the classics – as empowering, complicated,
subtle; how black women signify off of one another; and generally how
a handful of extremely important writers from a local or specific context
found universal appeal. Walters moves from Phillis Wheatley to Rita Dove,
while also discussing authors such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison.
This is a wonderful array of significant authors.”--Patrice Rankine,
Purdue University
Sponsors: University Libraries and the Africana Studies
Department
New Exhibit Chronicles the History of Stony Brook University
Special Collections and University Archives has created a new exhibit
that chronicles 50 years of Stony Brook University. The display features
photographs, posters, and brochures from the archives that highlight
defining moments in the University's history. The exhibit is located
on the second floor of the Melville Library, between Special Collections
and the Javits Room.
THURSDAY, November 8 at 4 p.m. in the Center for
Italian Studies (4th floor of the Melville Library)
Dedication of the Pietro di Donato Collection
(NEW:
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Stony Brook University's Center for Italian Studies and the University Libraries
will hold a dedication celebration on Thursday,
November 8. Speakers at the event include scholars Fred Gardaphe and Louise Napolitano,
filmmaker Joseph di Pasquale, and di Donato's sons, Pietro and Richard. The archive
of Pietro di Donato includes manuscripts, notebooks, newspaper clippings, books,
publications, personal effects, and photographs.
Di Donato was born in 1911 in West Hoboken, N.J. Although
he had a limited formal education, he reached widespread popularity with
his first novel Christ in Concrete (1939). The novel was inspired
by the tragic death of di Donato’s father in a construction accident
on Good Friday when di Donato was 12 years old. The novel was originally
published as a short story by Esquire magazine but was soon after
expanded into a full novel. It was later chosen for the Book of the Month
Club, edging out John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which was
published the same year.
For more information about this event, contact Kristen Nyitray at 631-632-7119
or kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu.
Press
Release
FRIDAY, October 5 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the Charles
B. Wang Center (NEW:
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From Captivity to Freedom: Long Island During the American Revolution
Conference featuring Edwin Burrows, Natalie Naylor, Alan Singer,
John Staudt, and Gerard Sztabnik.
This conference is free but advance registration is required. Please visit the
conference website for more information:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/conference
WEDNESDAY, May 2 at 12:45 p.m. - Wang
Center, Lecture Hall 1 (NEW:
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Chinese Food Can Be Good for Your Health!
Lecture featuring Dr. Jacqueline Newman
Chinese food is a favorite cuisine; but is it healthy? Recent reports
have questioned the nutritional content of some appetizers and entrees
served at Chinese restaurants. However, when prepared in an authentic
way, this cuisine is one of the world’s
most nutritious; it is ideal for your health and well being. Food historian,
scholar, and registered dietitian Jacqueline M. Newman will discuss the
use of herbs and other fresh ingredients in the Chinese diet. She will
explain how to order and prepare Chinese food that is healthful and why
the Chinese see no differences between food and medicine. The food tasting
that follows her talk will illustrate these concepts and feature recipes
from the Jacqueline M. Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection, a part of
the University Libraries' Special Collections at Stony Brook. Free to
all.
Sponsors: University Libraries and Charles B. Wang Asian American
Center
FEBRUARY - MAY
Exhibit: Stony Brook University: From
Forests and Fields to Bricks and Mortar
Location: Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial (Main) Library,
North Reading Room
From Forests and Fields to Bricks and Mortar is an exhibition
that illustrates the growth of Stony Brook University through the
use of images from the vast photographic collection maintained by
Special Collections and University Archives. It is presented in celebration
of Stony Brook University's 50th Anniversary. The exhibit features
as its centerpiece the original architectural model used by former
University President John S. Toll in the 1960s and early 1970s to
plan the campus. Accompanying the 1971 model are 14 aerial
photographs and maps that illustrate the rapid growth of the campus
and the forecasted impact the University would have on the region.
Sponsor: Special Collections and University Archives,
Stony Brook University Libraries
THURSDAY, April 26 at 4:30 p.m. (Canceled;
will be re-scheduled)
Melville Library Author Series
Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt: Science and the Battle for Public Trust
Program featuring faculty author Elof Carlson, Distinguished Teaching Professor
Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Location: Javits Room, Melville Library, second
floor.
Program: The intent and uses of science are a continuing
preoccupation, especially in public debates on issues such as new pharmaceuticals,
cloning, stem cells, genetically modified foods, and assisted reproduction. Times
of Triumph, Times of Doubt, written by the eminent geneticist and
historian Elof Carlson, explores the moral foundations of science and
their role in these hot button issues. Reception to follow.
Sponsor: University Libraries
WEDNESDAY, April 11 at 7 p.m. (NEW:
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Melville Library Author Series
A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Popular Culture, 1930-1960
Program featuring faculty author Shirley Lim, Department of History
Location: Javits Room, Melville Library, second floor.
Program: In A Feeling of Belonging, Shirley Lim highlights
the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American
women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation—the first
in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass and began to make their
presence felt in the United States. Dr. Lim traces the diverse ways in which
these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics
as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; the cultural
work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong; Asian American youth culture
and beauty pageants; and the achievement of fame of three foreign-born Asian
women in the late 1950s. By wearing poodle skirts, going to the beach, and
producing magazines, she argues, they asserted not just their American-ness,
but their humanity: a feeling of belonging. Reception to follow.
Sponsor: University Libraries
TUESDAY, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. (NEW:
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Melville Library Author Series
Drawing on Experience in Adult and Continuing Education
Program featuring faculty author Paul Edelson, Dean, School of Professional
Development
Location: Javits Room, Melville Library,
second floor.
Program: Based upon his experiences and scholarship,
Dr. Paul Edelson will present an overview of present-day continuing
higher education from the perspective of a senior level administrator
who is also a prolific author, lecturer, critic, and observer of this
dynamic field. His book examines continuing education as it is practiced
in an urban community college, at a major national museum, and at a
premier research university. Topics to be discussed include program
development and administration, leadership, creativity and innovation,
e-learning, staffing, budgeting, and the culture of higher education.
Reception to follow.
Sponsor: University Libraries
WEDNESDAY, March 28 at 4 p.m. (NEW:
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Melville Library Author Series
Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of Ethiopian Jews
Program featuring faculty author Stephen Spector, Professor and Chairperson,
Department of English
Location: Javits Room, Melville Library, second
floor.
Program: "Operation Solomon" was one of the most
remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000
Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day.
Now, in this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive
account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and
exclusive access to confidential documents. Spector recounts how
20,000 Jews were willingly lured from their ancestral villages to
Addis Ababa, expecting to be taken quickly from there to the Holy
Land. Instead, they became pawns in a struggle between the Israeli
government and Ethiopia's repressive dictator, who tried to coerce
Israel into selling him weapons he needed in a losing war against
rebel armies. In the resulting stalemate, the Jewish community was
forced to live for nearly a year in squalid conditions. Spector describes
the tense negotiations among Israelis, Ethiopians, and Americans, which
became increasingly urgent as time ran low and the danger mounted. And
he highlights the secret deals and sudden setbacks that nearly aborted
the mission at the eleventh hour, even as Israeli jets sat on the runway
in Ethiopia, waiting to take the Jews to the land for which they had
yearned for generations. Recounting the full story for the first time,
Operation Solomon is a stirring account of a heroic rescue achieved in
the face of daunting odds. Reception to follow.
Sponsor: University Libraries
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 at 4 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black
Power in America
Program featuring faculty author Peniel Joseph.
Location: Javits Room, Melville Library, second
floor.
Program: With the rallying cry of Black Power! in 1966,
a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton,
turned their backs on Martin Luther Kings pacifism and, building on Malcolm
X's legacy, pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality.
Waiting Til the Midnight Hour is a history of the Black Power
movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American
icons of the struggle for racial equality. Peniel E. Joseph traces the
history of the men and women of the movementmany of them famous or infamous,
others forgotten. Waiting Til the Midnight Hour begins in Harlem
in the 1950s, where, despite the Cold Wars hostile climate, black writers,
artists, and activists built a new urban militancy that was the movements
earliest incarnation. In a series of character-driven chapters, we witness
the rise of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee and the Black Panthers, and with them, on both coasts of the
country, a fundamental change in the way Americans understood the unfinished
business of racial equality and integration. Drawing on original archival
research and more than sixty original oral histories, this narrative history
vividly invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity
and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations.
Peniel Joseph is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Stony
Brook University. He is the author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour:
A Narrative History of Black Power in America (Henry Holt, 2006)
and Editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black
Power Era (Routledge, 2006).
Sponsors: University Libraries and The Department of
Africana Studies
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 at 7:30 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American
Gangster
Program featuring faculty author Fred Gardaphe.
Location: The Center for Italian Studies, Melville Library, E-4340.
Program: As the real American gangsters of yesterday
recede into history, their iconic figures loom larger than ever. From
Wiseguys to Wise Men studies the cultural figure of the gangster
and explores his social function in the construction and projection of
masculinity in the United States. In the hands of Italian-American writers,
the gangster becomes a telling figure in the tale of American race, gender,
and ethnicity - a figure reflecting the experience of an immigrant group
and the fantasy of a native population.
While this figure has been part of American literature since before Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, it has only been with the revolution in cinema and the work of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese that the image of the gangster has been humanized and more broadly disseminated. The author investigates the role of the gangster in film, as well in the literature of such great Italian-American writers as Mario Puzo and Gay Talese.
Fred Gardaphe directs Stony Brook University's Italian/American
Studies Program. His books include Italian Signs, American Streets:
The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, Dagoes Read: Tradition
and the Italian/American Writer, Moustache Pete is Dead!,
and Leaving Little Italy.
Sponsors: University Libraries and The Center for Italian
Studies
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"Truth in Technologies 2006: Efficiency, Safety
and Privacy"
3rd Annual AIDC 100 Forum
Location: Wang Center
Program: The AIDC 100 "Truth in Technologies 2006: Efficiency,
Safety and Privacy" Forum will be held on October 5 at Stony Brook
University. This year's forum will focus on vertical industry applications
and global supply chain Efficiency, Safety and Privacy. Designed to provide
a platform for debate and open discussions, the forum will address the
global perspectives on the issues facing the applications of Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID), bar coding, biometrics and other automatic identification
technologies. The core content of the 2006 forum will focus on:
Efficiency - how can the application of identification technologies improve productivity and visibility throughout the global supply chain? Which technologies should you select?
Safety - how are identification technologies being applied to enhance safety to assure consumers that the food products, pharmaceutical products and healthcare services being used are safe and secure? What is the status of these technologies and how ready are they for widespread adoption and implementation?
Privacy - how can identification technologies be used to properly balance
security and the consumer’s right to privacy? What are the roles
of regulatory bodies and the public policy considerations that should
be weighed and considered?
Registration: SBU students, faculty, and staff please RSVP by
Sept. 15 to 2-8380. Space is limited.
For more information: Call 631-632-7119 or visit www.aidc100.org.
Sponsors: AIDC 100, the University Libraries and CEAS.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 at 12:40 p.m. (Campus Lifetime) (Watch
this presentation online)
George Washington Letter Celebration - First Public
Viewing
Location: Wang Center
Program: Stony Brook University has acquired a secret
wartime letter from General George Washington to his chief spy written
from “Head Quarters Westpoint” on Sept. 24, 1779. A reading
and the first public viewing of the three-page letter will be held on
Wednesday, October 11 during campus lifetime (starting at 12:40 p.m.)
in the Wang Center.
The letter to General Benjamin Tallmadge, the Revolutionary Army’s spymaster, focuses on the activities of Robert Townsend, another secret agent from Oyster Bay. Signed as "Commander in Chief" by Washington, it refers to Townsend by his code name, Culper Jr., and mentions techniques used in spying, including invisible ink.
The University plans to create a series of exhibits and programs to explore
and celebrate Long Island’s contributions to our war of independence.
The letter also provides the opportunity to build a major repository of
historical records documenting the early history of Long Island and to
collaborate with Long Island’s historical societies and libraries.
Sponsors: University Libraries and The Office of the
President
The Chinese Philosophy of Feasting (Watch
this presentation online)
Date: Wednesday, April 5 at 12:40 p.m.
Location: Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 1
Program: Customs and beliefs of what to eat and how to
eat are as vital to the Chinese as are notions of food, health, and satiation.
Chinese food historian Jacqueline M. Newman will tease out the tastes,
cultural significance, social meaning, and types of food prepared for
lavish banquets, festivals, and even simple eating encounters. Tantalizing
selections from the recipes in the University Libraries' Chinese Cookbook
Collection, donated by Dr. Newman, will be served during a reception following
the lecture. Free to all.
Sponsors: Charles B. Wang Center and the University Libraries
Book Launch and Poetry Reading in Celebration of "The
Light of City and Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk County Poetry, 2006,"
edited by Daniel Thomas Moran, Suffolk County Poet Laureate. (Watch
this presentation online)
Date: Wednesday, April 5 at 4 p.m.
Location: Charles B. Wang Center, room 401.
Program: Please join us at a reception in celebration
of the anthology The Light of City and Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk
County Poetry, 2006, edited by Daniel Thomas Moran, Suffolk County
Poet Laureate. Poets reading their selections will include Louis Simpson,
Allen Planz, Ron Overton, Fran Castan, Millie Swaningson Eckhoff, Lenny
Greco, Lila Zemborain, Harvey Shapiro, Charles Fishman, Claire Nicolas
White, Mindy Kronenberg, Grace Schulman, Virginia Walker, and Stanley
Moss. Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase at the event.
Open to the public and free to all.
Sponsors: University Libraries, Office of the President,
and the Department of English
Lecture and Reception in Celebration of the Richard Vetere
Collection (Watch
this presentation online)
Date: Tuesday, May 2 at 1 p.m.
Location: Center for Italian Studies, Melville Library,
fourth floor.
Program: The Center for Italian Studies and the University
Libraries at Stony Brook will be hosting a program and reception in the
Center for Italian Studies to recognize the donation of archival material
by author and noted playwright Richard Vetere. Open to the public. Free
to all.
Sponsors: Center for Italian Studies and the University
Libraries
Exhibition: "Faces of Liberty"
Date: February 1 - February 24, 2006
Location: North Reading Room, First Floor, Main Library
"Faces of Liberty" is a traveling photo-journal exhibition focusing
on the Bill of Rights, civil liberties, and New Yorkers. An educational
project of the New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation and its Nassau
Chapter, the exhibit documents with black and white photographs the stories
of twenty-two people who have stood up for their beliefs often in the
face of great adversity with the assistance of the New York Civil Liberties
Union.
Sponsors: University Libraries and the New York Civil
Liberties Union
Exhibition: "From Migrant Alley to Home: Farmwork on
Long Island's North Fork"
Date: October 10 - November 21, 2005
Location: Central Reading Room, First Floor, Main Library
Suffolk County continues to be New York’s most productive agricultural
county, with vineyards, sod farms, nurseries, greenhouses, and potato
farms—most of which are located on the North Fork and are heavily
dependent upon migrant work. The North Fork of Long Island was once nicknamed
“Migrant Row” and most laborers in the 1940s and 50s were
African Americans and Puerto Ricans, the largest numbers of recent workers
come from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico.
From Migrant Alley to Home: Farmwork on Long Island's North Fork
includes reprints of photographs and documents from various Long Island
archival collections, including an early 1960s Suffolk County map that
details the many migrant work camps that existed, at that time, as far
west as Huntington. There are also three-dimensional artifacts such as
work tools from several working farms on the East End that still employ
migrant labor.
The exhibition is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and features artifacts rarely seen in museum exhibitions, including tools such as broccoli knives, blueberry rakes, a potato grader, and a bicycle that was used by migrant workers at a North Fork farm. Clothing and objects such as a tortilla press and a christening dress help to bring the meaning of home to migrant workers into sharper focus. The exhibition also uses many historic photographs, including those of a migrant workers camp in Cutchogue, Long Island, from the 1950s, and poignant recent photographs of workers in the fields by photographer Drew Harty.
From Migrant Alley to Home was organized by The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York. Research and development of the exhibition's content was completed by Riverhill, a museum consulting firm. Generous support for the travel of this exhibition was provided by the Long Island Community Foundation.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Reading with Carol Muske Dukes
Date: Wednesday, November 16 at 4 p.m.
Speaker: Author Carol Muske Dukes
Location: The Poetry Center - Humanities Building, second level
Program: Carol Muske (Carol Muske Dukes in fiction) is
author of seven books of poetry, most recently Sparrow, Random
House, 2003 and An Octave Above Thunder, New & Selected Poems,
Penguin, 1997. Her two novels are Dear Digby, Viking (1989) and
Saving St. Germ, Penguin, 1993. Dear Digby has been
re-issued by Figueroa Press, in 2003.
In Spring of 2001, Random House published her third novel, Life After
Death as well as a collection of essays entitled Married to the
Icepick Killer, A Poet in Hollywood published in August of 2002.
She is a regular critic for the New York Times Book Review and
the LA Times Book Review and her collection of reviews and critical
essays, Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography and the Shape of the
Self was published in the "Poets on Poetry" series of the
University of Michigan Press, 1997. Her work appears everywhere from the
New Yorker to L.A. Magazine and she is anthologized
widely, including in Best American Poems, 100 Great Poems by Women
and many others. She is professor of English and Creative Writing and
Director of the new PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing at
the University of Southern California. She has received many awards and
honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the
Arts fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill, the Witter Bynner award from the Library
of Congress, the Castagnola award from the Poetry Society of America and
several Pushcart Prizes.
Married to the Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood (a collection
of essays reprinted from the NY Times and LA Times book
reviews and Op Ed pages as well as unpublished work) was published in
2002 by Random House and selected as a Best Book of the year by the SF
Chronicle. Sparrow, a collection of elegies for David, was
published in 2003 by Random House and chosen as a National Book Award
finalist in Poetry. The book also won the Yale Review's Smart Award, plus
the Chapin award from Columbia University.
Sponsor: English Department and the University Libraries
Second Annual Friends of the Library Lecture (Watch
this presentation online)
Date: Monday, November 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Speaker: Louisa Thomas Hargrave, author
of In The Vineyard: The Pleasures and Perils of Creating an American
Winery
Location: Charles B. Wang Center
Program: In The Vineyard: The Pleasures and Perils
of Creating an American Winery (Viking, 2003), Louisa Thomas Hargrave
shares with us her extraordinary journey from naive dreamer to esteemed
vintner. The lecture—which is free and open to the general public—will
be followed by a question-and-answer session, a book-signing, and reception.
Sponsor: University Libraries and the Center for Wine,
Food, and Culture
R.S.V.P.: Seating is limited. Please R.S.V.P. by November
7 at 631-632-7100 or e-mail maryanne.vigneaux@stonybrook.edu.
Truth in Technologies 2005: Supply Chain RFID
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Student Activities Center, Ballrooms A &
B, at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
The AIDC 100, Stony Brook University Libraries and the Center of Excellence
in Wireless and Information Technology will host the 2nd annual "Truth
in Technologies" conference on October 27, 2005 (8:30 am - 5:30 pm)
in the Student Activities Center (SAC) to provide a clear vision of the
issues arising among the technologies of RFID (radio frequency identification)
and Supply Chain systems. This international event will include speakers
from the "user" community who will clarify the issues dictating
the implementation of RFID. The forum will provide understanding about
the broad-scale use of RFID in the supply chain. Topics to be addressed
will include: where RFID fits; the challenges of making RFID work; and
what it takes to use RFID. Attendees will include companies that define,
design, develop and deploy RFID-based systems.
Registration: Free to Stony Brook students and faculty (excludes lunch).
Space is limited.
Deadline: September 30, 2005
Student and faculty registration contact: Jason Torre via email at: FJason.Torre@stonybrook.edu
or 632-7119. Additional registration information, session descriptions
and a list of attendees are available at www.aidc100.org.
Date: Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Doug Swesty, Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, will lecture on "The Collapse
Mechanism of Supernovae." This program is intended for a general
audience.
Sponsor: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, April 19 at 12:30 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Location: Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 1
Program: "Cookbooks: A Cultural Banquet." Cookbooks
are a treasure trove of cultural information, history and social relationships,
as well as delicious and useful recipes. Chinese cuisine scholar Jacqueline
Newman will expound on the socio-cultural wealth of Chinese cookbooks,
while Bonnie Slotnik, owner of a Greenwich Village shop specializing in
out-of-print cookbooks, will give a broad overview of American baking
as seen through these books. Katheryn Twiss of Stony Brook University’s
Department of Anthropology will place the phenomenon of cookbooks in socio-historical
context. You will also sample creations from the recipes of the Jackie
Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection. Free to all.
Sponsors: Charles B. Wang Center and the Department of
Special Collections, University Libraries.
Date: Wednesday, April 20 at 4 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: The Treasure of Jorge Carrera Andrade at Stony
Brook: A Poetry Reading with Critical Commentary in Celebration of the
Jorge Carrera Andrade Collection
~ Featuring ~
STEVEN FORD BROWN
Translator/Editor of Jorge Carrera Andrade’s Century of the
Death of the Rose: Selected Poems (NewSouth Books, 2002). “A
testament to Andrade’s status as one of the most original and enduring
voices in twentieth-century poetry”—Harvard Review, Spring
2003
JONATHAN COHEN
Author/Editor of A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of
Muna Lee (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
J. ENRIQUE OJEDA
Professor of Hispanic Studies, Boston College, Editor of Jorge Carrera
Andrade’s Poemas desconocidos (Paradiso, 2002) and El
volcán y el colibrí: autobiografía (Nacional,
1989); Author of Jorge Carrera Andrade: introducción al estudio
de su vida y de su obra (Torres, 1971).
GABRIELA POLIT-DUEÑAS
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook
University
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Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Department of
Special Collections
CANCELED
Date: Monday, April 25 at 3 p.m.- CANCELED
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Donald Kuspit, Professor of Art and Philosophy,
will discuss his latest book, The End of Art. Kuspit argues that
art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced
by ‘postart,’ a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual
category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological
over the sacred, cleverness over creativity. Tracing the demise of aesthetic
experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman,
Kuspit argues that devaluation is inseparable from the entropic character
of modern art, and that anti-aesthetic postmodern art is its final state.
The End of Art points the way to the future for the visual arts.
Sponsor: Friends of the Library
Date: Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Paul Forestall of Southampton College will
lecture on "The Wild Dolphins of Costa Rica." This program is
intended for a general audience.
Sponsor: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
*Please Note*: This program has replaced the "Design,
Yes - Intelligent, No: Critique of Intelligent Design" lecture.
Date: Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Charles Janson, Professor, Department of
Ecology and Evolution, will lecture on "The World of Primates."
This program is intended for a general audience.
Sponsor: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Thursday, March 31 at 4 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Joel Rosenthal, Distinguished Professor of History,
will lead a discussion about his latest book, From the Ground Up:
A History of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. An
excerpt from chapter 1 of From the Ground Up: “This book
is meant to accomplish a variety of goals. One is to offer loose and quixotic
narrative of the relatively short history of the State University of New
York at Stony Brook. The second is to offer a sort of running explanation
or exposition of what a university is and how it works – with Stony
Brook furnishing the data, or serving as the case study. The third is
a sort of personal memoir; my own take on the more personal aspects of
the first and second goals.”
Sponsor: Friends of the Library
Date: Wednesday, March 16 at 4 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Krin Gabbard, Professor, Department of Comparative
Literature, reveals in his latest book Black Magic: White Hollywood
and African American Culture, that we duly recognize the cultural
heritage of African Americans in literature, music, and art, but there
is a disturbing pattern in the roles that blacks are asked to play-particularly
in the movies. Many recent films, including The Matrix, Fargo, The Green
Mile, Ghost, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Pleasantville, The Bridges of Madison
County, and Crumb, reveal a fascination with black music and sexuality
even as they preserve the old racial hierarchies. In the final chapters
of Black Magic, Gabbard looks at films by Robert Altman and Spike
Lee that attempt to reverse many of these widespread trends.
Sponsor: Friends of the Library
Date: Tuesday, February 22 at 5 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Jacqueline Reich, Associate Professor of Italian
and Comparative Literature, will discuss her latest book, Beyond the
Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema.
Marcello Mastroianni is considered by many to be the epitome of the Latin
lover, the consummate symbol of Italian masculinity. In Beyond the
Latin Lover, Jacqueline Reich unmasks the reality behind the myth.
In her investigation of many of Mastroianni's most famous characters in
Italian cinema, she reveals that beneath the image of hyper-masculinity
lies the figure of the inetto, the Italian schlemiel
at odds with and out of place in a rapidly changing world. Reich's work
demonstrates that Mastroianni's inetto is a reflection of the
unstable political, social, and sexual climate of post-war Italy and its
constantly shifting gender roles.
Sponsor: Friends of the Library
Date: Wednesday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. John Fleagle, Distinguished Professor in
the Department of Anatomical Sciences, will discuss "Rediscovering
Human Evolution (A Tribute to Darwin)." Dr. Fleagle's research involves
many aspects of evolutionary biology of higher primates, including laboratory
studies of the comparative and functional anatomy of extant primates;
field studies of the behavior and ecology of primates in Asia, South American,
and Madagascar; and paleontological field research in Africa and South
America. Current research projects are concerned with three areas: (1)
the evolution of monkeys, apes and humans in Africa, (2) the evolutionary
history of New World monkeys, and (3) ecological comparison of primate
communities.
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Peter Gergen of the Department of Biochemistry
will present a lecture on stem cell research. Dr. Gergen is Director of
the Center for Developmental Genetics in the Centers for Molecular Medicine.
He also is a Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Dr. Gergen’s
principle research interest focus on the mechanisms used to regulate gene
expression in the Drosophila (fruit fly) embryo and he has taken an active
role in integrating studies in this powerful genetic system with experiments
in other embryological systems. His post-doctoral training in Molecular
Biology and Developmental Genetics took place at Princeton and the Imperial
Cancer Research Fund in England.
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Jeffrey Pessin of the Department of Pharmocology
will present a lecture on diabetes. Dr. Pessin is Chair of the Pharmacological
Sciences Department in the School of Medicine. His research efforts utilize
state-of-the-art cell biological approaches including microinjection and
living single cell confocal fluorescent microscopy. More recently, he
has developed mouse models of insulin resistance to provide important
information for an understanding of the molecular events causing altered
metabolism and the basis for more effective treatments of diabetes. He
is a past winner of the Eli Lilly Outstanding Investigator Award from
the American Diabetes Association.
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, November 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Michael Hayman of the Department of Molecular
Genetics and Microbiology will present a lecture on "Oncoproteins
and Cancer."
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Fred Walter of the Department of Physics
and Astronomy will present a lecture on "Is There Life in the Universe?"
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Wednesday, November 17 at 4 p.m. (Watch
this presentation online)
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: “Don’t Bet the Farm!” Strategies
for the Preservation of Long Island’s Family Farms
Featured Speaker: Dr. Frank Turano, Research Associate
Professor, Stony Brook University. Today, with competition from agribusiness,
escalating property taxes, and the temptation to sell out to developers
for huge profits, the family farm, a Long Island tradition dating back
to the 1600’s, is in real danger of becoming extinct. Professor
Turano has identified innovative strategies that can help revive the family
farm and keep this important part of our American heritage economically
and culturally viable well into the 21st century.
Sponsors: Stony Brook University and the Friends of the
Library.
Limited seating - please call Pat Cruso at 632-4309 or e-mail patricia.cruso@stonybrook.edu
to rsvp. Refreshments will be served.
Date: Tuesday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. James Lattimer of the Department of Physics
and Astronomy will present a lecture on "The Detection of Gravity
Waves."
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, October 26 at 6:30 p.m. for Friends of
the Library, 7:00 p.m. for the general public
Speaker: Best-selling author C. David Heymann
Location: Charles B. Wang Center
Program: C. David Heymann is the best-selling author
of The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics
in the Nation’s Capital, RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy,
Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor and A Woman Named
Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Three
of his biographies have been made into award-winning NBC-miniseries and
he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. The lecture—which
is free and open to the general public—will be followed by a question-and-answer
session and a reception. Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club—Heymann’s
most recent work—was described by Publishers Weekly as a “captivating
chronicle of the female power behind American politics in the latter half
of the 20th Century.”
Sponsor: University Libraries
Date: Tuesday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Michael Bell from Stony Brook University
will lecture on "Bridging the Gap between Genetics and
Paleontology."
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Wednesday, October 20
Location: Charles B. Wang Center
Program: "Truth
in Technologies: Barcodes and RFID." This forum will provide
users, suppliers, and technology vendors in the Automatic ID industry
with a clear vision of the contentious issues arising between RFID and
Bar Coding. The program's focus is to clarify and improve the relations
between users and suppliers so that the implementation process becomes
smoother, quicker, and mutually beneficial. Additional information about
the program and registration is available here.
Sponsors: AIDC 100 and the Special Collections Department
of the University Libraries
Date: Tuesday, October 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Herbert Leupold from General Technical Services
will discuss "The Magnetics Revolution."
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Stephen Schwartz from Brookhaven National
Laboratory will lecture on "Global Warming - the Greenhouse Effect
and Your Family's Contribution."
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Date: Tuesday, September 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Javits Room, Second Floor, Melville Library
Program: Dr. Linda Van Aelst from Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory will discuss "Aberrant Ras Signaling in Cancer and Neurological
Disorders."
Sponsors: Friends of the Library and the Science Club
of Long Island
Summer 2004
Science Lecture Series
The following events are sponsored by the Friends
of the Library and the Science Club of Long Island. The programs will
be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Javits Room, located on the second floor of
the Melville Library.
Tuesday, June 1
Dr. John Shea from the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University
will present “Neandertals, Competition, and the Origins of Modern
Human Behavior in the Levant.”
Tuesday, June 15
Dr. Massimo Pigliucci from Stony Brook University will present a lecture
on “The Theory of Evolution.”
Tuesday, July
13
Dr. Daniel Bogenhagen from the Department of Pharmacology at Stony Brook
University will present “Mitochondria: From the Origins of Life
to Human Disease and Aging.”
Tuesday, July 27
Dr. Frank Mandriotta from the Science Club of Long Island will discuss “The
Learning Behavior in Electric Fish.”
Tuesday, August 10
Dr. Arthur Grollman from Stony Brook University´s Medical School will lecture
on the “History of Medical Treatment, Herbal Supplements and the
Placebo Effect.”
Tuesday, August 24
Dr. Maureen O´Leary from the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony
Brook University will lecture on the “Evolution of the Vertebrates
from Fish to Mammals.”
For more information about the Friends of the Library, please contact Kristen
Nyitray, Head, Special Collections and Archives/Friends of the Library at
631-632-7119. For more information about the Science Club of Long Island,
please contact Oleg Dei (Science Director) or Joy M. Dei (Programming) at
631-421-1523.
Spring 2004
Program: An Afternoon of Poetry with Henri Cole
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia. He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1978, his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1980, and his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1982. His volumes of poetry include: Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), The Visible Man (1998), The Look of Things (1995), The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge (1989), and The Marble Queen (1986). Cole's awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1982 until 1988 he was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since then he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities, and Reed College. Cole is currently poet-in-residence at Smith College.
Sponsors: The Poetry Center, the Friends of the Library and the University Bookstore
Date:
Wednesday, March 3 at 4 p.m. • Senator Jacob K. Javits Room, 2nd
Floor, Melville Library
Program: An Afternoon of Poetry with Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart’s collections of poetry include Desire, which received
the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and the
Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and was nominated for the National
Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize;
Music Like Dirt; In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90; and The
Sacrifice. Among his many honors are the Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader’s
Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given
by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the
Poetry Society of America, and the Lannan Literary Award. He teaches at
Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sponsors: The Poetry Center, the Friends of the Library
and the University Bookstore
Date: Thursday, February 26 at 4:30 p.m. • Senator
Jacob K. Javits Room, 2nd Floor, Melville Library
Program: "Black Studies in the 21st Century"
Dr. V.P. Franklin will speak on the topic of "Black Studies in the
21st Century." Dr. Franklin is the editor of The Journal of African
American History, Professor of History and Education at Teachers College,
Columbia University and the Rosa and Charles Keller Professor of Arts
and Humanities at Xavier University of Louisiana. A discussion will follow.
Sponsors: The Africana Studies Department, The Turner
Fellowship, and the Friends of the Library