Each of these brown-bag luncheons will be in the Media
Center at the Robert M. Strozier Library, on the FSU campus. Feel free to
bring a sandwich, yogurt, or whatever; we will furnish ice, sodas, and of
course cookies. Speaking of dessert, remember that Q&A will follow each of
these informal presentations.
- Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 16, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"Bioterrorism: What we need to know"
by Robert BROOKS, M.D.,
Associate Dean for Health Affairs, FSU College of Medicine.
An especially
topical presentation! Dr. Brooks joined the FSU faculty in September 2001,
having served as Secretary of Florida's Department of Health since January
1999.
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- Monday, OCTOBER 20, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"Booker T.
Washington's Tour of the Sunshine State, March 1912"
by David
JACKSON, Jr., Associate Professor of History, Florida A&M
University.
Dr. Jackson co-edited the Booker T. Washington
Encyclopedia, and he recently published A Chief Lieutenant of the
Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi.
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- Wednesday, NOVEMBER 5, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"A Special
Treat: A Reading by Jimmy KIMBRELL"
Since the mid-'90s, we've had one
reading each year by a faculty member from FSU's program in creative writing.
Introducing Prof. Kimbrell will be his colleague and fellow poet, David Kirby,
who recently became a Guggenheim Fellow and FSU's latest Robert O. Lawton
Distinguished Professor.
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- Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:30am-4:30pm:
Friends
of the FSU Libraries Book Sale
Books from all different genres being
sold at incredibly low prices 10 tables stretching from the Bellamy Plaza
(located between Strozier Library and the Bellamy Building) and ending in front
of Strozier Library
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- Tuesday, JANUARY 27, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"Escaping
Controls on the Availability of Information"
by Dave GOWAN,
Ph.D., long-time volunteer with Project Gutenberg.
It's the
international group which seeks to translate all out-of-copyright literary
texts (science, arts, political texts, romance, humor, drama, dictionaries,
encyclopedias, and more) into plain-vanilla ACSII electronic text--and to make
these texts available free to libraries, authors, scholars and webmasters.
He'll also talk briefly about ways copyright continues to stifle distribution
of information.
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- Tuesday, FEBRUARY 17, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"Land of
Hybridity: Religion in the Louisiana Purchase"
by Amanda
PORTERFIELD, Professor of Religion at FSU and president, 2001, of the
American Society of Church History.
She has written books on New England
Puritans, American missionaries, and the transformation of American religion
since the 1960s and has also written on broader themes in the history of
Christianity and the comparative study or world religions.
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Tuesday, MARCH 23, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
“Unrooted Chilldhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up
Global” by Faith EIDSE and Nina SICHEL,
co-editors of the brand-new collection by that name (copies will be available
in area bookstores). The Friends are pleased to co-sponsor this program
with the FSU International Center’s “Global Gatherings,”
another worth series of brown-bag luncheons serving the FSU community.
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Suggestions? Comments?
Please contact our
Program Chair, Prof. Dennis Moore, at dmoore@english.fsu.edu. To see titles
and presenters' names for the Friends' series, 1995 to date, go to
Past Events.
Lists of the Friends' programs are available for the following
years: 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98,
1998-99, 1999-2000,
2000-01, 2001-2002
and 2002-2003
For more information about parking, etc., call 850-644-5211.
Robert Manning Strozier Library, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306-2047.
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