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Darwin’s Impact – A Georgia State University Library Exhibit

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: November 18, 2009
When was the last time you got a good look at a Neandertal’s skull? Well check out the Georgia State University Library’s Exhibit on “Darwin’s Impact.” This display is part of the university’s commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of On The Origin of [...]
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Dr. Nadine Sinno reads from Canceled Memories

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: November 13, 2009
Dr. Nadine Sinno of the Georgia State University Middle East Institute will read on Monday, November 16 at 10:00 am from her translation of the Lebanese novel Canceled Memories. The reading will take place in Classroom 2 on the second floor of Library North. A description of the novel follows: Set during the Lebanese [...]
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EndNote Workshop, November 18

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: November 13, 2009
EndNote is a software program that helps you store, organize and format citations. GSU users can download a free copy here. Georgia State University Library’s Joel Glogowski will be presenting a workshop on November 18, 2009, introducing users to EndNote. The presentation will be from  11:00am – 12:30pm in Classroom 1 (on the first floor of [...]
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Journalist and author Susan Faludi to speak at GSU

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 27, 2009
The following news was originally posted on the Georgia State University News blog by Liz Babiarz: ATLANTA – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Susan Faludi will lecture at Georgia State University Nov. 2 about gender, media, popular culture and political life in the contemporary age. Her lecture, titled “Losing Ourselves in the 21st Century,” is part [...]
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Darwin’s Impact

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 15, 2009
Georgia State University is hosting a lecture series celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200 year anniversary. Sponsored by the GSU Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities, the lecture series features scholars from various disciplines and institutions. To support this event, the Georgia State University Library has created an online research guide on Darwin. This guide features Darwin [...]
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Constellations: of Comparative Literature and the new Humanities

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 14, 2009
The Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University is hosting an interdisciplinary conference this weekend from October 16-18 called Constellations: of Comparative Literature and the new Humanities. The conference features a round table discussion between Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf, Thomas Keenan and Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak. The Georgia State University Library has items from all of [...]
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Professor Lynne Huffer – Lecture and Book Reception

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 14, 2009
Emory Professor Lynne Huffer is extending an invitation to a lecture and reception to launch her new book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (Columbia University Press).  The book launch is being held in connection with her Life of the Mind lecture, “Why Is Sexuality a Moral Experience?”   The [...]
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Religious Studies Discussion in Atlanta

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 12, 2009
Gary M. Laderman, Professor of American Religious History and Cultures at Emory University will discuss his new book, Sacred Matters:  Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States (The New Press, 2009) on Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 pm in Room 209/210 at the Unitarian Universalist [...]
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Exhibit – The Investiture of President Mark P. Becker

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 8, 2009
Come witness history in the making at Georgia State University! The Georgia State University Library is celebrating the Investiture of President Mark P. Becker with an exhibit on Library North’s first floor. The case behind our broadcast screen will display recognitions of the event from institutions around the nation. Our exhibit case next to Saxbys entrance [...]
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Banned Books Week Exhibit: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: September 9, 2009
The Georgia State University Library is celebrating banned books week with an exhibit highlighting banned, censored and challenged comic books and graphic novels. Check out the display case on Library North 1 to see comic book examples from our collection, as well as scholarly works about censorship of the comics medium. Banned books week [...]
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