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Friends
Events for Spring 2003
Friday, February 14, 2003
"Celebrating
Scholarship." Reception, 10 am. Program, 10:30
am, University Archives, Bender Library. Free.
Presentations by American University faculty members of
their recently published and signed books and the stories
behind them . Honorees include:
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Roberta
Rubenstein (CAS-Literature). Home Matters:
Longing and Belonging: Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's
Fiction (New York: Palgrave, 2001). Despite its
typically regressive associations with homesickness,
nostalgia may also function progressively by imaginatively
securing, and mending or repairing the past. Looking
at fiction by British and American women writers of
different generations and ethnicities, Rubenstein explores
tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider,
longing and belonging, loss and recovery, mourning and
emotional resolution. She argues that nostalgia is a
strategy for interrogating not only notions of home,
homesickness and homeland, but also cultural or historical
dislocation, aging, and moral responsibility. These
narratives address a concern in contemporary women's
experience: personal and/or cultural displacement are
restored - imaginatively, at least - by a vision of
healing and emotional repair. |
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Charles
R. Larson (CAS-Literature). The Ordeal
of the African Writer (New York: Zed Books, 2001).
His book demonstrates how only a small number of African
writers - like China Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah,
and Wole Soyinka - have become known outside of their
own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles
they face within Africa to get their work published,
let alone to support themselves financially from their
writing. Charles Larson combines writers' own testimony,
pen portraits of theirs lives, and factual investigation
to explore the full dimensions of this problem. |
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James
R. Heintze (University Library). Igor Stravinsky:
An International Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations,
1925 - 2000 (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press,
2001). Five years is added to the time span covered
by the first edition, 668 doctoral dissertations, master's
theses, and bachelor's essays are represented by 200
colleges and universities in 18 countries. Included
are works that deal primarily with one of the most significant
composers of the twentieth century and studies that
indirectly contain references to the composer. |
Monday,
March 24, 2003
Steering
Committee Meeting, 5 pm, University Library Administrative
Conference Room.
Other exciting events are being planned. Please check back.
Past
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Family Weekend. October 25, 2002
AU Neighborhood tours.
Discovery of the historical background behind interesting
and popular sites around AU with James Heintze from the American
University Library. Selected sites included the homes of President
Lyndon Johnson and Vice President Richard Nixon, Embassy Row
and Civil War forts.
Homecoming
& Reunion Weekend. October 18, 2002
Tea with the Helen Palmer Kettler Society, Friends
of the Library and Golden Eagles: Our Nation’s
Capital, “the city is a classroom.”
Atrium, Battelle-Tompkins Building. A celebration of the Kettler
Society members and Friends of American University Library
with a special presentation by Ed Smith, chair of the American
Studies Program as he explores the cultural richness and history
of Washington, D.C.
Homecoming
& Reunion Weekend. October 18, 2002
Navigating the World Wide Web. Presented by Mike Tosko,
Reference Librarian. Bender Library, Electronic Classroom.
Want to learn more about what the Internet has to offer and
how to “surf the ‘Net”? If you answered “yes”
to either of these questions, this class is for you. Learn
to feel more comfortable with computers, the World Wide Web,
and information technology in general.
Book
signing with Andrew Carroll.
October 18, 2002
Editor of War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from
American Wars (Washington Square Press, 2002) Dedicated
to all veterans of American University. Andrew Carroll's book
is a New York Times bestseller and was the inspiration for
the American experience documentary "War Letters"
on PBS. The book features 200 never-before-seen letters from
the Civil War up to the Gulf War and even 9/11, relating the
story of American wars from the viewpoint of the men and women
on the front lines and those who waited at home.
"Celebrating
Scholarship." September 25, 2002. Presentations
by American University faculty members of their recently published
and signed books and the stories behind them. Honorees included
John Willoughby: Remaking the Conquering Heroes:
the Social and Geopolitical impact of the Post-war American
Occupation of Germany, John
Doolittle: Don McNeill and His
Breakfast Club, and Michelle
Egan: Constructing a European
Market: Standards, Regulation and Governance.
Tour
of Dumbarton Oaks.
May 29, 2002. Viewing of the special collections representing
the history of landscape architecture and pre-Columbian art
and rare book collections, and docent-led tour of the gardens.
"Celebrating Scholarship." March 20, 2002. Presentations
by American University faculty members of their recently published
and signed books and the stories behind them. Presentors included;
Marianne Noble (CAS - Literature), David Rosenbloom (SPA -
Public Administration), and Karin Wulf (CAS - History).
Book Talk and Signing, February 28, 2002. Shelia M. Reindl,
author of Sensing
the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia, published by
Harvard University Press, 2001. Co-sponsored with the Office
of Student Affairs and the AU Campus Store as part of National
Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
"Celebrating Scholarship." November 6, 2001.
Presentations by American University faculty members of their
recently published and signed books and the stories behind
them.
Celebrating Family Weekend, October 16, 2001
Bus tours of historic
sights and landmarks in the immediate vicinity of American
University, including Spring Valley and Wesley Heights. Co-sponsored
by the Office of New Student Programs and Friends of AU Library
as part of AU Family Weekend.
Celebrating Reunion Weekend. October 20, 2001
"Navigating the World
Wide Web," with Mike Tosko, Reference Team, University
Librarian. Co-sponsored by the Office of New Student Programs
and Friends of AU Library as part of AU Homecoming & Reunion
Weekend.
Tour
of Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW, Washington DC. October
9, 2001. Galleries include works by Picasso, Monet, Miro,
Cezanne, Rodin, and other artists.
"Celebrating
Scholarship." March 27, 2001. Presentations by American
University faculty members of their recently published
and signed books and the stories behind them.
Presenting faculty: Randall Blair (SOC) "The Case
Against Karen," Caleen Jennings (CAS) "Inns
and Outs," Alan Mandel (CAS) "Piano Works
of Edward MacDowell," and Ann Zelle (SOC)
for selected photographs.
"Feinstein Day." February 24, 2001. Co-sponsored
with the Eaglesclub at the homecoming basketball game with
James Madison University. This event featured a pregame luncheon
and half-time presentation to honor media sports commentator and
author John Feinstein. He signed his new book, "The
Last Amateurs," about the ideals of the new
athletic conference which American University will join
next year.
"Celebrating Scholarship." February 8, 2001.
Presentations by American University faculty members
of their recently published and signed books and the stories behind them.
The presenting authors included Naomi Baron (CAS), James Mittelman (SIS),
and Joan Williams (WCL).
"Celebrating 35 Years of the Kay Spiritual Life Center."
December 4 - January 15, 2000(1). A library exhibit
on the history of the Kay building.
"Celebrating Scholarship," October 25,
2000. Presentations by American University faculty members
of their recently published and signed books and the stories
behind them. The presenting authors included Mohammad
Abu-Nimer (SIS), Lesley Gill (CAS), and Patricia Sykes (SPA).
"Television
Talk Shows of the 1950s," October 20, 2000. A showing
from library archives of selected rare TV footage produced
in Washington, D.C.and highlighting American political and
cultural perspectives of the period. A group of distinguished
panelists provided commentary on the TV shows.
"The
Book Business: Behind the Scenes at Second
Story Books," September 26, 2000. From preservation
of rare books to contemporary marketing in today's
digital book world, with Second Story president and American University alum
Allan Stypeck, at the store's warehouse.
Ann
Litt, nationally renowned dietitian and author, presented
book talks on The College Student's Guide to Eating
Well on Campus (Tulip Hill Press). September 4 and
5, 2000. She covered various issues, including how to avoid
the "Freshman 15," winning strategies for dormitory
dining, and how to avoid eating disorders. Co-sponsored by
the AU Campus Store, Friends of American University Library,
and the Office of Student Services. Food demonstration provided
by Bon Appetit.
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