ReadAloud 2009 Schedule
ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our Fall programming in the Thompson Library (ground floor northwest, opposite to the Berry Cafe) beginning October 1, 2009. Stop by and enjoy faculty, staff, students and community members reading from their favorite works.
Thursday, October 1, 3-4 pm 
Ann Hamilton, Department of Art, shared four texts that inspired her floor installation project in Thompson Library.
Thursday, October 8, 3-4 pm
E. Gordon Gee, University President of The Ohio State University, shared his favorite reading, The Last lecture by Randy Pausch. Maryann Walther-Keisel, Center for East European and Slavic Studies, read from Viy by Nikolai Gogol, a Slavic supernatural tale and possibly other scary tales.
Thursday, October 15, 3-4 pm 
Chan Park-Miller, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, performed Geomungo Sanjo and a piece of p’ansori, ShimgChung-ga, Korean Storysinging.
Thursday, October 22, 3-4 pm
Doug Dangler, Associate Director of The Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing and host of Writers Talk on WCBE (90.5 FM) shared Shut up You are Fine by Andrew Hudgins, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and The Patriot Witch by C.C. Finlay.
Thursday, October 29, 3-4 pm
“Julia and Joyce: Two Fifties’ Outsiders Tell their stories”: David Stebenne, Department of History will read selections from Julia Child’s memoir entitled My Life in France and Karen Simonean, director of Media and Public Relations for the Wexner Center, will read from Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir.
Thursday, November 5, 3-4 pm
Sandra Alexander read from The Pact:Three Young Men Make a Promise And Fulfill A Dream and also presented scenes from her brother, Durand Alexander’s indie film Grandpa’s House.
Thursday, November 12, 3-4 pm (due to technical problems the recording begins mid-program)
Chiquita Mullins Lee, Pamela Talbert Hamilton, Jeannetta Holliman and Rodlyn H. Douglas reading a piece they wrote collaboratively called Twelve, a creative nonfiction work. The dramatic reading recounts and weaves together the individual stories of the authors at the age of 12. The stories are told in the voices of the 12-year-old girls.
Thursday, November 19, 3-4 pm
Melanie McGurr, University Libraries and readers from her class shared a collection of readings in honor of Jane Austen.
Leer en Voz Alta : Special ReadAloud Program in Spanish organized by Ted Riedinger, Latin American Studies Librarain. Thompson Library, ground floor northwest. (opposite to the Berry Cafe)
Tuesday October 20, 3-4 pm
La Palabra Invertida: Poesía Vanguardista en Español de John M. Bennett Leído por el Autor *The Brazilian drink, guarana, will be served.
Los Estados Unidos dentro y fuera: Narrativas de Marti y Galeano. Ignacio Corona, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Dept.
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