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Library Colloquia Series - Fall 2013
Free and open to the public.
FREE parking is available in stadium lot 62E on Red Cedar Road after 6:00pm. The Main Library is wheelchair accessible via the south entrance. Persons with disabilities may request accommodations by calling Birdie Beckwith at 517.884.6454 one week before an event. Requests received after that time will be met when possible.
Banned Books Read-Out
Thursday, September 26
Noon-1:00
Main Library Patio
Celebrate Banned Books Week and help draw attention to issues surrounding censorship. Come read short passages from your favorite banned book into a microphone on the Main Library's patio. A selection of frequently banned books will also be available.
Please contact Holly Flynn if you are interested in reading at the Read Out.
R. Nathaniel Dett: The Michigan Connection
Wednesday, October 9
7:00 pm
MSU Main Library, Room W449
Presented by Mary Black Junttonen, Music Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries
Cosponsored by American Life and Music
Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett, born into a Canadian African-American family in 1882, was a prestigious composer, pianist, conductor and educator until his death in 1943 in Battle Creek, MI. His fame was greatest in the eastern U.S. although he also led many choral tours throughout the U.S. and Europe. The MSU Archives contains a number of signed pieces of his published music and also holds two manuscripts written for a church in Battle Creek. How did his career develop? Why was he in Battle Creek? How did these materials reach MSU? Learn about a ground-breaking musician's work and influence in this presentation by MSU Music Librarian Mary Black Junttonen.
Songs that Work: Music from the Workplace to the Workhouse
Thursday, October 17
12:15 pm
MSU Museum
Presented by Andy Cohen and Jerron Paxton, Writers and Performers
Cosponsored by Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives
Publishing, authoring, and teaching in the evolving open access environment: A panel discussion
Tuesday, October 22
4:00- 5:30 pm
Main Library North Conference Room/W449
Join us at the library for a discussion with MSU professors about their involvement with open access publishing. Farha Abbasi (Department of Psychiatry) will talk about her experiences as managing editor of the open access Journal of Muslim Mental Health. Ian M. Dworkin (Department of Zoology), an editor at the open access journal PLoS One, will discuss the benefits and complications of publishing scholarly work in open access journals and on pre-print servers, as well as new models for the review process and for providing raw data, and Steven Weiland (Department of Educational Administration) will present his approaches to teaching graduate students about old and new models of publishing.
Culture Shaped by History: The Jewish Community of Janina, Greece
Thursday, November 7
7:00 pm
MSU Main Library, Room W449
The Ada Finifter Memorial Lecture
Presented by Annette B. Fromm, Assistant Professor/Museum Studies Coordinator, Florida International University, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Cosponsored by the MSU Jewish Studies Program, Michigan State University Museum, MSU Museum Studies Program and the Michigan Traditional Arts Program
In conjunction with Romaniote Jewry exhibit on loan from Kehila Kedosha Janina Museum (New York), MSU Main Library, 4W, September- November 2013.
Beauty Shop Culture and the Labor of Hairdressing
Thursday, November 8
12:15 pm
MSU Main Library, Room W449
Presented by Candacy Taylor, Independent Scholar and Current Archie Green Award recipient at the American Folklore Center
Cosponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, the MSU Women’s Resource Center, and Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives
"For centuries hair salons have functioned as makeshift communities where people gather to discuss everything from intimate family sagas to the stock market. For many, the ritual of going to the salon is as important as going to church. It's a place where people literally and figuratively let their hair down and spill their secrets. In the midst of styling aids, corrosive chemicals, flat irons and the comforting hum of hair dryers; lives are shared." (from Taylor Made Culture)
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