Calendar of Events
- Summer 2009 Events
- Fall 2009 Events
- Spring 2010 Events
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Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public and free of charge.
Summer 2009
5/19/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature.“Let the Story Speak: On the Importance of Sharing Stories with Young People,” Meredith Ann Pierce, Alachua County Librarian-Supervisor and Fantasy Fiction Writer. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
6/13/09
Jane Austen Society of North America will discuss Austen’s Lady Susan and In Defense of Mrs. Elton by Diana Birchall. 12:30-2:30 PM. Alachua County Library, Tower Road Branch . For more information, contact Amy Robinson <arobin@ufl.edu>.
6/16/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “Storytelling in the Content Areas,” Linda Martin, Library Media Specialist and 2009 Bechtel Fellow at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
8/18/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “In the Stacks: An Evening in the Baldwin Library,” Rita Smith, Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, and Ramona Caponegro, Events Coordinator for the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
Fall 2009
9/15/09
Conversations in Children’s Literature. “A Conversation with Shelley Fraser Mickle,” Shelley Fraser Mickle, Author and NPR Commentator. Sponsored by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more information, contact Ramona Caponegro at <ramonac@ufl.edu>. 7 PM. Goerings Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue.
Spring 2010
3/1-3/2/10
“Convergences and Conversions: The Merchant of Venice into the 21st Century.” The plenary address will be given by Janet Adelman (Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley), the author of Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice (Chicago UP, 2008). Mary Beth Mader (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis) will speak on the late Sarah Kofman’s essay “Conversions: The Merchant of Venice under the Sign of Saturn,” followed by a reading of a selection from the essay. The conference is sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida and made possible with funds from the Grass Chair and a Posen grant. For more information, contact Judith Page or Dragan Kujundzic <dragan@ufl.edu>.