Acclaimed writer Pete Hamill, distinguished novelist Howard Fast respected historian Kenneth T. Jackson, will be among the speakers at "Brooklyn USA: A City Apart," a three-day conference and cultural event extravaganza taking place at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, October 21- 23.
Did William Shakespeare write "King Lear" as an object lesson for England's King James? A Shakespeare expert at the University of Missouri-Rolla thinks so, and also believes the play was first performed before King James' court, rather than at the Globe Theater.
A rare and early how-to book straight from and for the horseÃs mouth is the 9 millionth volume for the University of Illinois Library. The book, published in 1616, is an original German Baroque treatise on the breaking and training of royal cavalry horses.
A famed scientist who left Iowa State University more than a century ago is still inspiring students today. George Washington Carver, Iowa State's first African American student, graduate and faculty member, died in 1943. Fifty-five years later, the man who was born into slavery is the focus of a university-wide celebration at Iowa State.
A Purdue University expert on ethics offers a "report card" grading the conduct of president Bill Clinton and those who oppose him.
The University of Illinois Library is ready for the 21st century. It just rolled out an online cataloging and circulation system that not only meets the international standard for data-sharing, but also is Year 2000 compliant. The system also gives users a powerful way to access materials.
A major exhibition about the literary career of Laura (Riding) Jackson will open Oct. 8 in the Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library on the Cornell University campus.
Move over, Blanche DuBois -- step aside, STEL-LAAAH!!! -- hit the road, Brick. A whole new cast of Tennessee Williams characters is bringing drama to life on the world's stages this year. It's a raw and gritty tale of prison torture.
The first-known examples of glass from the Iron I archaeological era were found in the Cornell University research area of the Tel Dor, Israel, archaeological site, according to Jeffrey Zorn, Cornell visiting lecturer in Near Eastern studies.
The Marine Biological Laboratory's Science Writing Fellowships Program and the Center for Children's Environmental Literature is co-sponsoring an Author, Illustrator, Biologist Institute during the weekend of October 9th in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The World Wide Web is the home for millions of pages of information on every topic that the human mind has been able to conceive. It also is a home for plagiarism.
Competiton makes faith grow stronger and encourages chruch innovation, according to a study exploring the composition of all 171 Roman Catholic dioceses in the continguous 48 states.
As the year 2000 approaches, "people are thinking philosophically," and philosophers increasingly are applying their problem-solving skills to real-world issues-from race relations and healthcare to family leave policies-says Eric Hoffman of the American Philosophical Association at the UD.Some of the nation's deepest thinkers will ponder the changing role of philosophy in American public life today at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston.
Cornell University will host the Vladimir Nabokov Centenary Festival, September 10-12, featuring songs, scholars, the son of Nabokov--and William F. Buckley, Jr. playing Edmund Wilson
Three thousand philosophers from around the world will convene in Boston on August 10 for the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy, a gathering held only once every five years since 1900. The twentieth and final Congress of the century, organized under the aegis of the FÈdÈration Internationale des SociÈtiÈs de Philosophie, will feature more than 2,000 symposia and has so far generated 1,300 scholarly papers. The last Congress held in the United States was in 1926.
An exhibit of photographs of American volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War at a Washington, D.C., gallery opened on the 60th anniversary of the last, largest and greatest campaign of that war. The exhibit, ìThe Aura of the Cause,î opened July 24, the date that marks the beginning of the bloody Ebro offensive in 1938. The exhibit closes on Sept. 5.
The media wield a powerful influence on public opinion and have a critical role to play in promoting racial reconciliation in America, according to a new report on race and the media, released today (July 29) at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) meeting in Washington, D.C.
A Wheaton College sociology professor who came close to death will participate in the upcoming U.S. Transplant Games. He is able to enjoy an active life today because of the gift of a heart from a family whose teenage daughter died.
Cornell University Professor Alison Lurie publishes The Last Resort, her tenth novel and her first in ten years.
Parents willing to make a strong commitment to their child's musical education should consider lessons before the age of six, according to the director of the Suzuki Program at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
When he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned words that would live forever in history. But was he the first to write them? A University of Wisconsin-Madison expert says that Jefferson may have modeled the Declaration after a 16th-century Dutch document.
Instead of mounting antlers on walls, a Brigham Young University professor is literally "turning" them into functional and aesthetic pieces of art. The veteran of woodturning, the art of using the lathe to fashion wood into beautiful objects, has recently substituted elk antler for wood.
Cornell professor Neal Zaslaw is the first American to edit the Koechel catalogue that lists Mozart's works, compiled by Ludwig Ritter von Koechel and first published in 1862. Zaslaw's edition, the fifth or the ninth, depending on how one counts, will be the first to be published in both German and English. He expects it to be controversial.
Charles M. Falco, professor of optical sciences and condensed matter physics at The University of Arizona in Tucson, is a scientist whose passion for motorcycles has led him on what might be considered an unlikely journey to one of the world's most revered centers of art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where he is playing a key curatorial role in the upcoming exhibition, "The Art of the Motorcycle."
And you thought ìO Come All Ye Faithfulî was a Christmas song. In fact, the original text refers to politics. ThatÃs just one of the surprises University of Illinois musicologist Nicholas Temperley uncovered during an unprecedented 16-year project that yielded a comprehensive database documenting ìtens of thousands of hymn tunes spanning three centuries.î
WILMINGTON, DEL.-The late N.C. Wyeth's historic $1 million homage to working families-believed in 1932 to be the largest U.S. painting of its kind in any public building-will be restored to its original luster this summer, thanks to the Wilmington Savings Fund Society (WSFS) and the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. WSFS will bankroll the $40,000 restoration project.
A national resource center on self-taught art has been established at Vanderbilt University's library by a self-taught artist and collector.
A child sets fire to his grandmother's apartment and the blaze ignites the African-American consciousness. The death of Betty Shabazz? Yes, but decades before, it also was the experience of author Richard Wright.
Cornell University Library has acquired the Maeda Collection, the personal library of Japanese literary scholar and critic Maeda Ai.
A new book by Cornell professor of materials science Stephen L. Sass is a tour of the history of civilization, from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, into the Iron Age and thence to the Industrial Revolution and the age of technology. Included are the developments of glass and concrete, polymers, aluminum and the silicon chip.
The National Science Board (NSB) will host a ceremony and reception on May 6 honoring annual winners of key awards in science and engineering, and public service. The awards will be presented at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Williams College has announced that Yo-Yo Ma will give the principal address at the college's 209th Commencement, Sunday, June 7.
In Western Massachusetts from April 29 through May 3, Vanessa Redgrave and her mother, Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, will step on stage in two different venues to pursue interests in Chekhov and women. Their first stop will be Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley where the pair will hold a master class on April 29.
"Blood In The Arena, The Spectacle of Roman Power," a new book by University of Arizona Professor of Hisotry, Alison Futrell, examines images of power in the Roman Empire. She looks at how these images were manipulated for political purposes and how this legacy affected modern conceptualization of power.
Cornell art history expert Robert G. Calkins' book covers Medieval architecture using text, photographs and a CD-ROM.
Modern performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion--an acknowledged masterpiece of Western music--are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of powerful, highly emotional music, and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments.
Cornell University alumnus and author Paul Cody's So Far Gone, a novel published by Picador USA, a literary imprint of St. Martin's Press, was released in February ($22; 240 pages, ISBN 0-312-18180-9).
A new book, edited by a University of Georgia professor, brings together for the first time some of the most important American speeches of the 20th century.
Evelyn Cunningham, a journalist who risked her life in the early 1950s covering the budding civil rights movement, will accept the George Polk Career Award on April 15 in Manhattan on behalf of the Pittsburgh Courier, the pioneering African American newspaper for which she worked for many years. (Editors: please note that Cunningham is available for interviews.)
Edward Said, professor of comparative literature and chair of the doctoral program at Columbia University will give the next Rice University President's Lecture on "The Tragedy of Palestine" Thursday, March 26, 1998.
1998 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism awarded to Ben Brantley, The New York Times; Elinor Fuchs, author of The Death of Character (Indiana University Press); and Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists and columnist for American Theater magazine.
Peter Gizzi, one of the country's most celebrated young poets, is already receiving high praise for his soon-to-be released collection, Artificial Heart. The book is one of two by Gizzi that will be published this spring.
Vassar College announces the fifteenth annual Institute of Publishing and Writing: Children's Books in the Marketplace, to take place on the Vassar campus June 14 to 19.
Television writers who plan to cover USA Network's four-hour mini series on "Moby Dick," airing March 15-16, can find valuable background material on Herman Melville from the University of Delaware's Hershel Parker, author of what has been called the "definitive" Melville biography.
Just in time for Women's History Month, "The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History" is appearing in bookstores. The book covers the experience of women in the U.S. from precolonial times to present and is edited by a team that includes Gloria Steinem and UC Santa Cruz politics professor Gwendolyn Mink.
The public's infatuation with historical movies such as "Titanic" and "Amistad" supports the idea behind a Purdue University professor's new book, that historical facts are not as important as the way they are spun.
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III will be featured in Director Spike Lee's Civil Rights documentary film, 4 Little Girls, to be broadcast nationally by the Home Box Office cable network on Monday, February 23, 1998, at 9 p.m. (est).
Survey results revealed that even in the age of modern technology, an overwhelming majority of Americans (94 percent) would prefer to receive a handwritten love letter to one sent by e-mail. As for those most likely to send love letters . . .
If musicals are back, as newspaper headlines are proclaiming, Northwestern theatre graduates are out there winning the roles that make these shows sing. "It's been another incredible year for Northwestern," says Dominic Missimi, the director of the music theatre program and an associate professor in Northwestern's legendary theatre department.
Cornell English Prof. Culler has written a new and very brief introduction to literary theory that is brief, lucid and witty and makes the case that not only will literary theory not kill you, it may even be fun.
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