Crossroads, a Binghamton international literary festival, will take place at 2 p.m. Sat., Nov. 21, at the Bundy Museum, 127-129 Main St., Binghamton. The day of poetry and narrative readings will feature 16 authors from eight countries, including Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Spain and Argentina. BU writers taking part include Diego Trelles Paz, Joe Weil, Leslie Heywood, Mario Moroni and Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
Info: The Bundy Museum
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Jaimee Wriston Colbert and Joe Weil will read at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in S1-149. Colbert will read from her newest novel, Shark Girl. Other books she has written include the award-winning story collection Dream Lives of Butterflies; Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize. Colbert teaches fiction at Binghamton University. Weil will read from his latest book, The Plumber's Apprentice, just out from New York Quarterly Press. Weil published two new books last year: Painting the Christmas Tree and What Remains. Weil teaches poetry at Binghamton University. Sponsored by the Binghamton Center for Writers. For more information call 777-2713, e-mail cwpro@binghamton.edu or visit http://readers-series.binghamton.edu.
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Wednesday, November 25 8:30am-4:00pm
Thursday, November 26 closed
Friday, November 27 closed
For more information, please email special.collections@binghamton.edu or call (607) 777-3912.
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Columbia College Chicago Library is delighted to offer a new digital resource - the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Sketchbook Project - showcasing the work of the Pulitzer-prize winning political cartoonist and syndicated cartoonist who drew for such publications as the Chicago Sun, The New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, and Stars and Stripes. John Fischetti (1916-1980) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1969. View the collection at: http://www.lib.colum.edu/archives/mss_fischetti/.
Through a generous donation from his estate, Columbia College Chicago received the majority of John Fischetti’s sketchbooks in which he worked out ideas for his cartoons. Writing about his sketchbook use in his autobiography, Fischetti said "before 1961 I used to doodle ideas on the backs of envelopes, scraps of paper and yellow copy paper... Since even half-formed ideas are invaluable, I decided to use layout pads for the gestating periods. By dating each page, it turned out to be a sort of log of historical and personal events." These notebooks offer a detailed, graphical history of the period from 1962 to 1980. Shortly after Fischetti's death, Mike Alexandroff, then president of Columbia College and close friend of John Fischetti, established the Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition in 1982 at the college in the cartoonist’s honor. Today it is a nationally recognized award for political cartooning.
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Binghamton University alumnus and litigator Owen Pell ‘80 will discuss “The Fate of Art Looted During the Holocaust” on Friday, November 20, at the Binghamton University Forum, held at the Binghamton Club located at 81 Front Street in downtown Binghamton.
Pell’s areas of practice include litigation involving foreign sovereigns and their state-owned entities, litigation involving issues of public international law and bankruptcy litigation. He has conducted internal investigations with regard to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, fraud, and historical reparation issues.
Among Pell’s achievements are the formulation of a proposal to create a clearinghouse and dispute resolution entity to address claims related to art looted during the Holocaust, which the European Parliament adopted in 2004.
Pell has published widely on the subject of Holocaust-looted art and was invited to present a public lecture to the New York State Court of Appeals relating to Holocaust-looted art claims. In June 2009, he was part of the U.S. Delegation to the Holocaust Era Assets Conference held in Prague. The conference concluded with the adoption of the Terezin Declaration, which includes several actions Pell has long advocated.
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Sweet it is to see the sun
Shining on Thanksgiving Day,
Sweet it is to see the snow
Fall as if it came to stay;
Sweet is everything that comes,
For all makes cheer, Thanksgiving Day.
~ exerpt from "Every Day Thanksgiving Day" by Harriet Prescott Spofford
This book of poems features poetry by W.L. Childress, Susan Cooliage, William Brighty Rands, Henry Stevenson Washburn, Robert Bridges, Lydia Maria Childs and others.
Thanksgiving in poetry : poems, chosen by a committee of the Carnegie Library School Association.
Published: New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1923.
To view this book, come to Special Collections and ask for PN6110.T6 T46 1923
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Molly Green, professor of history and hellenic studies, Princeton University, will deliver the 18th annual Freedeman Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in FA-Casadesus. She will speak on “The Ottoman Empire and Diversity in the Early Modern World.” Green studies the history of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire and the Greek world. Her interests include the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the experience of Greeks under Ottoman rule, Mediterranean piracy and the institution of the market. Her books include A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean, which appeared in 2000 and examines the transition from Venetian to Ottoman rule on the island of Crete. The lecture, which is co-sponsored by the dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, is free and open to the public.
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A conversation with Binghamton alum Jeremy Schraffenberger of North American Review will be held from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in LN-1104. North American Review is the nation’s oldest literary magazine and publisher of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, with emphasis on increasing concerns about environmental matters, multiculturalism and exigent issues of gender and class. This is an informal Q&A open to all. Sponsored by the Binghamton Center for Writers with support from the Harpur Dean’s office. For more information call 777-2713, e-mail cwpro@binghamton.edu or visit http://readers-series.binghamton.edu.
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