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Poets Against War update

In addition to noted poets Sam Hamill and Eleanor Wilner, Breyten Breythenbach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach) will be in Columbus on October 29th and 30th for events to promote the Poets Against War movement. Please reserve these dates and additional information will be forthcoming.

Add comment July 25th, 2008

Poets Against War Event

Sam Hamill, founder of Copper Canyon Press and principal founder of the international oraganization Poets Against War, will be in Columbus on October 29th and October 30th. There will be an event each evening: on October 29th there will be readings of central Ohio poets and on October 30th Sam Hamill and Eleanor Wilner will be the guest speakers.

More details will be forthcoming, but save the dates of October 29th and October 30th.

Add comment June 23rd, 2008

Frederic Tuten: Selected Readings

Frederic Tuten, critically acclaimed novelist, will be reading from his works at 7:00 p.m. in the alphabet rooms (second floor) at the OSU Faculty Club. Please join us for the reception at 6:30 with the reading to follow.

Add comment April 29th, 2008

Bourguignon lectures

We would like to call your attention to two upcoming lectures on campus:

• Erika Bourguigon, OSU emeritus professor of Anthropology, will speak at 4 PM on Tuesday, April 22 on “Ecstasy, Collective Joy, Possession and Exorcism, or the Uses and Abuses of Anthropology.”  Hosted by the Center for Folklore Studies, the lecture will be held in 311 Denney Hall.  For more information see the Center’s Special Events page.   (The topic is directly related to her work done in Haiti.  Photos taken by Paul Bourguigon while the Bourguignons were in Haiti in the 1940s were highlighted in our posting of February 27, 2008.)
• The Department of Anthroplogy will be offering the annual Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthroplogy on Thursday, May 15, 6-7 PM, in room 002 of the Psychology Building.  William Saturno, assistant professor of archaeology, Boston University, will present “Painted Walls, Sacred Stories: Art and Myth of the Early Maya Kings.” 

Add comment April 17th, 2008

Mona Lisa program on National Geographic channel

Tuesday evening, March 18, the National Geographic channel will be airing a program entitled “How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa.”  Included in their overview of the research on Leonardo’s famous painting will be Lillian Schwartz’s analysis.  Her discovery, first published in 1987, was recently developed further in the book Monna Lisa: Il volto nascosto di Leonardo (Florence, 2007), published in both Italian and English with co-authors Renzo Manetti and Alessandro Vezzosi.   The OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library is the home of the Lillian Feldman Schwartz archive.

Add comment March 17th, 2008

Frederic Tuten Coming to OSU in May

Frederic Tuten, noted novelist and teacher of creative writing, will be visiting Ohio State the first week of May (details to come later). Mr. Tuten’s literary archives are part of the Contemporary American Literary Manuscripts of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. As noted, details about the visit will be forthcoming. In the meantime, you can view Mr. Tuten’s career at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tuten .

1 comment February 26th, 2008

Jerry Tarver lecture

Jerry Tarver, donor of the Jerry Tarver Rhetoric, Oratory and Elocution Collection to Rare Books, will be speaking at the Aldus Society on Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 p.m. at the Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. For more information go the the Aldus Society web site at http://www.aldussociety.com/comingevents.htm .

Add comment February 25th, 2008

Avant Symposium 2010

Plans are underway for a second Avant Symposium to be hosted by the Rare Books & MSS Library and its Avant Writing Collection. The first event was held in the summer of 2002, and was quite successful; people are still talking about it. The second symposium will be held August 19-21, 2010. Also planned is a concurrent exhibit at the Columbus College of Art and Design of visual poetry and experimental literary works from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami. Mark your calendars!

Add comment February 22nd, 2008