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Life after Lovecraft
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Sonia and Nathaniel Davis, circa 1936. Sonia Haft Davis (1883-1972) would have lived her life in relative obscurity but for her 2-year marriage to a man named Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). Lovecraft was a science fiction and horror writer whose work has created a significant and active fan base. To preserve her own literary output and the work of her third husband, Nathaniel A. Davis, Sonia donated materials documenting their lives to Brown University. Those papers are now available for research in the Sonia H. and Nathaniel A. Davis papers (MS.2012.003) at the John Hay Library.
Those looking for information about H.P. Lovecraft in the papers of his ex-wife will be disappointed. The bulk of the materials in this collection document the life of Sonia Davis from 1930 to 1972, during which time she lived in California and was married to Nathaniel A. Davis. Sonia and Nathaniel were both devoted to the idea of world peace and wrote numerous articles and poems promoting that goal. Nathaniel founded Planetaryan, a humanitarian organization devoted to world peace, for which Sonia was the chief administrator. The collection is a good source of documentation for anyone interested in U.S. social, political and religious history, especially around the period of World War II. It is also useful for researchers interested in American literature, especially religious poetry and didactic literature.
To learn more about the life of Sonia Haft Davis contact Christopher Geissler, Librarian for American and British Literary and Popular Culture Collections, or visit the John Hay Library.
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Workshop and Forum | China’s Publishing Soft Power
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On Friday, August 14, 2015, the Brown University Library will host a workshop and forum about China’s Publishing Soft Power in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library.
The workshop and forum will feature chapter authors from both the U.S. and China of the projected book Embracing China’s Publishing Soft Power: Trends, Resources, and Access.
The keynote speakers will be Sonia Feigenbaum, Associate Provost for Global Engagement at Brown University, Ned Quist, Associate Librarian for Research and Outreach at the Brown University Library, and Zhiqiang Zhang 张志强, Deputy Director of Academy of Publishing Studies, Professor in the Department of Publishing Science in the School of Library and Information Management at Nanjing University.
The forum will be chaired by Li Wang, Curator of the East Asian Collection at the Brown University Library, and moderated by William Monroe, Senior Scholarly Resources Librarian at the Brown University Library, Hong Ji 纪红, President, Reach Insights Consulting, LLC, and Zhuge Weidong诸葛蔚东, Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In addition to the workshop and forum, speakers and invited guests will be given a tour of campus and the Brown University Libraries on Thursday, August 13.
This event is co-sponsored by the China Initiative, Watson Institute for International Studies, the Office of Global Engagement, Brown University, and the Brown University Library.
For more information and inquiries about attendance, please contact Dr. Li Wang at Li_Wang@brown.edu.
Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Times: 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence -
Event | Coffee with Lovecraft Scholar Connor Pitetti
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H. P. Lovecraft at home in Providence / Brown University Library Join us on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. at the John Hay Library for coffee and an informal discussion with S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellow Connor Pitetti focusing on his project “The Cities of H.P. Lovecraft and Le Corbusier: The Limits of the Human in Apocalyptic Modern Urbanism.”
Mr. Pitetti, a PhD candidate in English at SUNY Stony Brook, will discuss his ongoing research at the John Hay Library using the Lovecraft Collection.
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2015
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence
