University Libraries Presents: Writers Series Announced

The University Libraries proudly announces its exciting Fall 2016 Writers Series. Please register and join us for an hour of diverse, dynamic talks by our esteemed Stony Brook faculty.

Tuesday, 9/27:  Mary Jo Bona & Adrienne Munich (register here)
Mary Jo Bona: “Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary”
Adrienne Munich: “Scramblers for Diamonds at the “Big Hole” in Kimberley, South Africa”

Tuesday, 10/18: Shirley Lim & Charles Taber (register here)
Shirley Lim: Anna May Wong: Glamourizing Racial Modernity”
Charles Taber: “The Rationalizing Voter”

Tuesday, 11/15: Carl Safina (register here)
“Beyond Words: How Elephants, Wolves, and Killer Whales Think and Feel”

Pictured left to right: Mary Jo Bona, Adrienne Munich, Shirley Lim, Charles Taber, Carl Safina.

Pictured left to right: Mary Jo Bona, Adrienne Munich, Shirley Lim, Charles Taber, Carl Safina.

All programs will be held from 1 to 2pm in the Special Collections Seminar Room, E-2340, Melville Library.
For detailed descriptions of the talks and speaker biographies, please visit the series website.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu

 

Kristen Nyitray

Kristen Nyitray

Associate Librarian; Director, Special Collections and University Archives; and University Archivist at Stony Brook University Libraries
Contact her for research assistance with rare books, manuscript collections, historical maps, and SBU history. E-mail: kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu.
Kristen Nyitray
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