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 21, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"The
Book I Did Write About This Place: Green Empire"
by June
WIAZ,
co-author (with Kathryn Ziewitz) of Green Empire: The St. Joe
Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle, published in Spring '004 by
the University Press of Florida.
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- Wednesday, October 20, 12:30-1:45
p.m.:
"Fighting Nazis and Terrorists: American Traditions of Civil
Liberties and National Security in Conflict"
by Max Paul
FRIEDMAN,
History professor at FSU and author of Nazis and Good
Neighbors: The U.S. Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in WWII
(Cambridge U.P., '003). He has recently returned from Germany, where he was
2003-'004 Juergen Heideking Fellow at the German Historical Institute in
Cologne.
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- Tuesday, November 16, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"A
SPECIAL TREAT: A READING BY ERIN BELIEU"
Continuing a tradition dating
to the mid-'90s, of having one reading each year by a faculty member from FSU's
creative-writing program, we welcome poet Erin Belieu.
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- Tuesday, January 18 '005, 12:30-1:45
p.m.:
"Edit This: My Seasons at the International Herald
Tribune"
by Joe RITCHIE,
world-travelling Professor of
Journalism at Florida A& M University and, since 1990, holder of the Knight
Chair for Journalism Student Enhancement.
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- Tuesday, February 15, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"The
Book I Could Write About This Place"
by Judge James JOANOS,
of Tallahassee, who retired in 2001 as Appellate Judge, Florida First District
Court of Appeal. Fans of this brown-bag series will recognize Judge Joanos's
title, not only from our September '004 talk but also from presentations by
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lucy Morgan (December '98) and
novelist/journalist Shirish Date (our annual dinner, April '001).
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- Tuesday, March 15, 12:30-1:45 p.m.:
"What's
Up With 'Freshman Reading Groups' These Days?"
by Greg
BEAUMONT,
raconteur and Associate Dean and Director, FSU's Office of
Undergraduate Studies.
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| THEN, in April, dinner! Watch for details on time,
place and ticket price--and on our speaker. |
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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,
2002-2003 and 2003-2004
For more information about parking, etc., call 850-644-5211.
Robert Manning Strozier Library, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306-2047.
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