Barack Obama Swearing-in Ceremony January 20, 2009 11:00 am – Noon John C. Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium & Commons Practice Presentation Room You are invited to Hodges Library to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States. Join us to witness this historic moment, the swearing-in of our first African … Continued
The University Libraries, its Newfound Press, the Office of Information Technology Innovative Technology Center, and the Department of English will provide local access for UT faculty and graduate students to the 2008-2009 UCLA Mellon Seminar, “What is(n’t) Digital Humanities?” Seminars will begin Wednesday, November 5 from 5-8 p.m., and follow monthly through June 2009. The … Continued
For some Tennesseans, the Holocaust is more than a tragic chapter of history; it is a personal journey of pain and survival. Learn the stories of these fascinating local men and women at a special lecture by UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media Associate Professor Rob Heller. With the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Dr. Heller … Continued
From the loving intimacy of family life to the horrors of Hilter’s reign of terror in Europe, a new exhibit at Hodges Library will examine both beauty and brutality through the brief life of Kitty Weichherz, a Slovak girl growing up in the 1930s and early 1940s. In Her Father’s Eyes: A Slovak Childhood in … Continued
…and here a few scorched teeth/from some martyred, unknown saint./The sky was a scroll of pain/— each star a sacred name!/I saw through time in that light./But I turned and blood rained down/and I turned and dipped and drank – from “The Death Mazurka” by Charles Fishman. Noted poet Charles Fishman will read poems on … Continued
The University Libraries invites you to a demonstration of Digital Commons, a digital archiving and publishing service developed by the Berkeley Electronic Press, on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 in 128 John C. Hodges Library from 1:30 to 3:00 pm. Digital publishing services enhance international collaboration and global academic networks through electronic access to the work … Continued
The Baker Center will sponsor an interactive forum on Election 2008 in the first floor galleria of Hodges Library on Tuesday, October 21, at 5:30 p.m. In this election cycle, it seems some Americans are frustrated with the lack of substance in the current political discourse. Some have commented that Americans are only hearing “talking … Continued
Don’t miss an exciting and rare event as four talented local writers close out the Writers in the Library season with a special reading event. University of Tennessee Creative Writing professor and poet Marilyn Kallet, professor and head of the Creative Writing Program and fiction writer Michael Knight, Creative Writing professor and poet Arthur Smith, … Continued
MacLaury, author of the recently published Newfound Press title, To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, will speak at an e-Forum on scholarly publishing, Wednesday, October 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 605 Hodges Library. Light refreshments will be served. … Continued
Award-winning novelist and short story writer Peter Ho Davies will read at the next Writers in the Library event on Monday, October 20, at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium at Hodges Library. Davies’ first novel, The Welsh Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), was named a 2008 British Book Awards Richard & Judy Best Read … Continued