Book Looks at How Female Writers of 19th Century Promoted Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignColeridge must not have been paying attention, for in the 19th century, poetry actually promoted the sciences. Poetry by women, that is.
Coleridge must not have been paying attention, for in the 19th century, poetry actually promoted the sciences. Poetry by women, that is.
Before her death in 1998 at age 108, Marjory Stoneman Douglas won acclaim as a Florida journalist, poet and outspoken environmentalist.
Food sustains our physical bodies, but it also has much to do with our metaphysical selves. A conference at Mississippi State University will explore the links between food and philosophy.
Billy Collins, the current United States Poet Laureate, will headline this year's Beall Poetry Festival at Baylor University. Collins will be joined by four other acclaimed poets -- Scott Cairns, Jonathan Galassi, Jane Hirshfield and Marge Piercy -- at the four-day event, which is sponsored by Baylor's English department. The festival is free and open to the public.
Four award-winning authors will be featured at Vanderbilt's spring writers symposium titled "Our Favorite Year: A Celebration of Nashville Writers." John Egerton, Ann Patchett, Alice Randall and Diann Blakely will read excerpts from their books and entertain questions from the audience.
Poet and short story author Paul Ruffin's first novel, "Pompeii Man," a mystery-thriller set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, has been published by Louisiana Literature Press.
Swarthmore College will host a symposium, "Private Eye / Public "I": Female Crime Writers of the 21st Century," in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall on Saturday, April 6. Featured authors are Val McDermid, Barbara Neely, and S.J. Rozan. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
At the invitation of U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, acclaimed University of Arkansas poet Miller Williams will present a reading of his work at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Williams promises to read short poems that make a scene.
The opening night of the fourth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival will feature a newly remastered 70mm print of "Patton," the 1970 Oscar-winner that opens with a famous monologue by George C. Scott as Gen. Patton.
Thanks to portraits, paintings and drawings, we have a good idea of what the Queen of France, her court and even her more humble countrywomen looked like, but we knew almost nothing about the women who made their clothing, until now.
Rarely in history has the dissent of the lower classes been more vocal than in Russia in 1917. Yet that outrage has remained silent and inaccessible to successive generations. Now, a new book gives voice to ordinary Russians.
An overgrown, centuries-old sacred site in the Indian state of Gujarat may be in line for a facelift, thanks to a team of landscape architects from the University of Illinois.
Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art acquired more than $4 million worth of fine art for its permanent collection last year through gifts and purchases, including a 1915 Cubist watercolor by Pablo Picasso and one of Fernand Léger's most important oil paintings from 1931
Hunting, history and hotels feature prominently in the spring collection of books from the University of Arkansas Press. The Spring 2002 collection's books also reflect an emphasis on Arkansas and Southern studies.
A new Web site links Americans to excellent and innovative churches throughout the country. It also provides an electronic homebase for a new initiative called the Pastoral Summit that seeks "to find, to create, and spread models of church excellence."
A deathbed promise to the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Satyajit Ray has led to the first comprehensive American retrospective of Ray's films, to be shown in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
A scholar's examination of centuries-old texts leads him to conclude that rise of the belief in witchcraft was really an indirect effort to prove the existence of God.
While Black History Month recognizes the black experience in the United States, a growing number of writers are examining slavery and the black experience in Europe, says UAB Associate Professor of English.
Julieanna Preston's research-by-design project and exhibit entitled "Pinned Structure and Folded Surface: Sewing Operations on the Eiffel Tower," premiered at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architecture Gallery.
It becomes clear early into "Fire on the Beach," the new history of the only all-black maritime lifesaving crew in the United States, that the "fire" in the title is a metaphor. Vivid, sometimes poetic, writing surrounds the tales.
To the casual observer, Robert Mooney's photographic exhibition may appear to be a technically well-crafted set of images reflecting the pristine landscape of national-park lands in the American Southwest.
Sixty years ago this month - shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor - an executive order was signed that imprisoned Japanese-Americans until World War II ended. The author Yoon Pak, a University of Illinois education professor, uses letters and other research to flesh out the conflicts felt not only by the Japanese-American students during that time.
A new book of previously unpublished writings details daily life at one of the weirdest creative writers' colonies ever to operate in the United States - or perhaps anywhere.
It was "bound" to happen. Hobbits have hit the halls of ivy. Students at the University of Illinois are now exploring the fantasy-rich elfin realms of J.R.R. Tolkien's mind and writings.
Translating two Italian epic poems, a scholar finds insight into the portrayal of heroes, the politics of readers and the way these two things can change and conflict over time. It suggests caution to those who would deliver modern-day "heroes" into the hands of history.
"Original Acts: Photographs of African-American Performers in the Paul R. Jones Collection" opens Feb. 5 at the University of Delaware. It is the first major showing since the premier collection was donated to UD by Jones, one of the nation's leading private collectors.
In the summer of 1994, 1150 boxes, containing more than 1000 feet of material, including 430 items of memorabilia, arrived at Bowdoin, evidence of the legacy of Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. In February a department at Bowdoin will be named for Mitchell in appreciation for his generosity in donating his papers to Bowdoin and in honor of his career.
The NYU Psychoanalytic Institute and its affiliated society the Psychoanalytic Association of New York with additional funding from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation are launching their new Creative Writers and Psychoanalysts Series with a panel entitled The Apocalyptic Imagination: Daydreaming in an Era of Nightmares.
New evidence suggests that Herod the Great (or King Herod as he is called in the Bible's New Testament) died of chronic kidney disease. These findings will be revealed at this year's historical Clinical Pathologic Conference sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs' Maryland Health Care System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
At its height of popularity, "The X-Files" was the best adult drama on television, says a Ball State University educator.
Fourteenth century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, famous for his "Canterbury Tales," also was a member of Parliament and justice of the peace.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote much of her historic book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Bowdoin College. Because of the lucky discovery of a potential homebuyer some of the first serialized versions of the novel may soon be added to the collections of the Bowdoin College library.
In an agreement described as historic and visionary, Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, has become an affiliate of its longtime neighbor, Wake Forest University. Reynolda House President and Wake Forest President announced the new relationship in an afternoon press conference on Jan. 15 at the Reynolda House, home to the museum distinguished for its collection of American art dating from the mid-18th century.
MTV Networks will air a special half-hour program, We Shall Overcome: Stories from the Children's Defense Fund, on Friday, January 18, at 5:30 p.m., in recognition of Martin Luther King's Birthday.
The acting director and professor of Africana studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has completed a DVD about South African indigenous churches.
The Reconciliation Quilt, a famous piece thought to be the world-record quilt sold at auction, is a recent donation to the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Florida State University School of Music will honor Ernst von Dohnanyi, a giant of 20th century composition and one of the finest virtuoso pianists of his time, with the first International Ernst von Dohnanyi Festival Jan. 31-Feb. 2.
1) Coach killer takes common problem to extreme; 2) Gauging the economy in 2002; 3) A message of hope, service comes full circle.
The world's foremost interpreters of the works of William Shakespeare-Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-will bring the Bard to life at Davidson College during a twelve-day residency from February 18 through March 2, 2002.
Ancient Egypt had an extra 17,000 "site"-seers last January, thanks to a Web site chronicling the daily work of an archaeological excavation in Luxor. This year, cyberspace is again invited to tag along on a month-long dig at the Temple of Karnak.
Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University, received the George Jean Nathan award for drama criticism, administered by Cornell University, for his book, "The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre."
Story Ideas from Grinnell College include what is the direction of U.S. fiscal policy after Sept. 11? Is the recent downturn in trourist travel affecting art galleries in the Midwest? Is the U.S. Constitution safe during this time of homeland security? Can we understand interreligious dialogue between members of the major western religions and those of the Jewish and Islamic faiths? And discovering the history of the United States during wartime and the perceptions of its citizens towards war.
Vassar College's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will survey the history of women photographers with the opening of "Camera Women: An Exhibition in Tribute to Linda Nochlin," on Friday, January 25. "Camera Women," which portrays the changing role of women in photography since 1839, runs through Monday, March 4.
A Florida State University professor's study of slave patrols may provide insight into the historical reasons for the pattern of racially targeted law enforcement in the United States.
Pennsylvania- Marian Wright Edelman, President and Founder of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), will visit Pennsylvania on Wednesday, December 12th, 2001. She is coming to Pennsylvania to bring national attention to the severe disparity of educational opportunities available to poor children in Pennsylvania.
A Noted Latina professor says there is wide interest in Latin American and U.S. Latino/a cultures and literatures in colleges and universities nationwide.
A conversation between a white, middle-class ethnomusicologist and a poor black Mississippi sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield changed the course of music forever and demonstrates the power of anthropological research, according to a University of Arkansas researcher.
Modern day carols began as "madrigals," songs written for small groups with each person singing an independent part, says the UAB Department of Music chair.
The ayes have won another vote in the hotly contested scholarly debate over the authorship of a set of medieval love letters.
1) Recession? Told ya' so!; 2) Eating disorders and the holidays; 3) Don't let lights and ornaments 'short-circuit' your holidays.