2007-2008 Abernethy Series Lectures
Thursday, March 20, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Middlebury College Library
Harman Periodicals Reading Area
Changing the Face
of American Literary History:
Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
180 Years Since
Lucinda L. Damon-Bach , Associate Professor, English Department & Graduate School, Salem State College, delivers a talk on Elizabeth Maria Sedgwick, early American woman novelist, ranked with James Fennimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and William Cullen Bryant, and one of the founders of American literature.
Sponsored by Special Collections, Library & Information Services, and American Studies
Wednesday-Thursday, February 27-28, 2008
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Middlebury College Library
Harman Periodicals Reading Area
Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century
Wednesday-Thursday, February 27-28, 2008
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Middlebury College Library
Harman Periodicals Reading Area
Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century
On Wednesday, Sara Blair, Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, will lecture on "Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century." Blair is co-editor with Jonathan Freedman, of "Jewish in America," a "rare and original work of cultural studies offers uncommon and engaging perspectives -- as well as provocative and humorous insights -- on what it means to be Jewish in America"
Transgressions of a Model Minority : Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice
Transgressions of a Model Minority : Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice
On Thursday, February 28, Jonathan Freedman, Professor of American Culture and English at the University of Michigan, will lecture on "Transgressions of a Model Minority: Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice." Freedman is co-editor with Sara Blair of "Jewish in America," a "rare and original work of cultural studies that offers uncommon and engaging perspectives -- as well as provocative and humorous insights -- on what it means to be Jewish in America"
Sponsored by Special Collections, Library & Information Services, and American Studies
Sponsored by Special Collections, Library & Information Services, and American Studies
2006-2007
Abernethy Lecture, May 3, 2007
Robert Buckeye offers reflections on Edwin James (1797-1861), Middlebury College Class of 1816. In 1829 James was appointed botanist and geologist to the exploring expedition of Major Samuel H. Long. In 1823, he published the 2-volume
Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1818-19, a report of the exploration of what we now know as Pike's Peak. Buckeye proposes that in addition to his pioneering work as an explorer, James was a visionary environmnetalist and an early proponent of civil rights for Native and African Americans, and speculates on why this extraordinary American has been relegated to relative historical obscurity.
Annual Ron Rucker Lecture - April 26, 2007
Library Theft or Thievery: Cultural Heritage and Collection Security. A talk by David A. Cobb, Curator, Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University.
Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Special Collections Department, and the Departments of Geology and History.