“Opening the Word Hoard: Readings from <em>Beowulf</em>”
A reading and discussion in cooperation with the Department of English.
Seamus Heaney: Avenali Panel Discussion
Panel Discussants: Seamus Heaney and Robert Hass (English)
Seamus Heaney, Poet & Playwright
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2006, Seamus Heaney has published more than 10 volumes of poetry, three collections of prose, one play, and numerous chapbooks, translations, and lectures.
Public Reading
A public reading by Una's Lecturer J.M. Coetzee.
South-African novelist, literary critic, and translator J.M. Coetzee is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and a two-time winner of the Booker Prize. His writing often uses his country's apartheid system and its post-apartheid transition as a mirror for the bleakness of the human condition.
Gallery Walk-through
“Learning to See: Innocence, Experience and the Photographer's Eye”
A colloquium with Wendy Ewald, Gilles Peress (photojournalist), and Wendy Lesser (The Threepenny Review).
Photographer and educator Wendy Ewald is known for her documentary-style investigations of places and communities, which probe questions of identity and cultural differences. Ewald collaborates with children, families, and women around the world, often encouraging them to use cameras to record themselves, their families, and their communities.
Panel Discussants: Mike Davis, David Reid (writer) and Kerwin L. Klein (History)