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Events | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR – Discussions with Artemis Joukowsky

Spend two evenings with author Artemis Joukowsky III P’14, P’16, who tells the incredible story of his grandparents, Martha Ingham Dickie (Brown 1926) and Rev. Waitstill Hastings Sharp in his new book, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War (Beacon Press, 2016), also a film by Ken Burns of the same name. On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Events | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR – Discussions with Artemis Joukowsky

Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands

WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands, a new exhibit in Orwig Music Library curated by Ethnomusicology PhD student Julian Saporiti, shines a light on the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese American Incarceration. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt bowed to racist, anti-Japanese hysteria and signed Executive Order 9066 which removed 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands

Event | In the Mountains of Madness: A Reading with Author W. Scott Poole

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, W. Scott Poole will give a reading from his new book, In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft. A discussion will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public. The book will be Event | In the Mountains of Madness: A Reading with Author W. Scott Poole

Exhibit | Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann

  The works displayed in this exhibit were created by students in Professor Dietrich Neumann’s lecture course, “Contemporary Architecture,” which surveys stylistic, technological, and theoretical developments in architecture from the 1960s to the present. Students were asked to create a model based on a building or industrial design object of this time period. Date: May 18 – September Exhibit | Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann

Event | Pizza Nights

It’s that time of year! Pizza Nights are here! Every semester the Library hosts two nights of pizza to fortify your studying. The first (Tuesday) night will be in the Sciences Library. The next night (Wednesday) there will be pizza in the Rock. Students that enjoy studying in a library as well as eating pizza are encouraged to attend. Schedule Tuesday, Event | Pizza Nights