As part of Three Years Later: An Examination of the Post Katrina Experience, UT Libraries and Ready for the World will host After the Storm: Rebuilding Lives along the Gulf Coast and in East Tennessee on Wednesday, August 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Hodges Library Auditorium. This informative program will feature … Continued
The UT Libraries Diversity Committee Presents Films with food and culture in support of the Summer 2008 Culture Corner. 3:00 p.m. Babette’s Feast In 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect unto itself. … Continued
Rachelle Scott will speak July 8 in the Hodges Library Auditorium about her book Nirvana for Sale?: Buddhism, Wealth, and the Dhammakāya Temple in Contemporary Thailand . This event is sponsered by the UT Libraries Diversity Committee in support of the Culture Corner. Nirvana for Sale?: Buddhism, Wealth, and the Dhammakāya Temple in Contemporary Thailand … Continued
Mark Hulsether will speak June 18 in the Hodges Library Auditorium about his book Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States. This event is sponsered by the UT Libraries Diversity Committee in support of the Culture Corner. In Religion, Culture, and Politics Hulsether leads readers on a tour of religion in the United … Continued
On Monday, April 21, RB Morris will host his final event as the UT Libraries’ Writer-in-Residence. This last Writers in the Library event of the semester will feature readings by RB and by authors Greg Congleton, Jesse Graves, Brian Griffin, Marilyn Kallet, Charlotte Pence, and Jack Rentfro. Readings begin at 7 pm in the UT … Continued
Students in UT’s Creative Writing Program compete annually for the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Prizes in fiction and poetry. Winners will read from their award-winning works at Writers in the Library, Monday, April 14, at 7 pm in the Hodges Library auditorium. The prizes were endowed by the same long-time UT English professor, author … Continued
Film Movement Film Series Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium Dreams Of Dust Burkina Faso, Canada, France / d. Laurent Salgues / 86 min Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. … Continued
Join the Baker Center for a roundtable discussion of the 2nd Amendment with UT professors Otis Stevens (Law), Glenn Reynolds (Law), and Dorothy Bowles (Journalism and Electronic Media), as well as Cumberland Law School’s Brandon Denning. Bring your questions, bring your comments and be ready for a fascinating dialogue. April 3 4:00-5:00 pm Culture Corner … Continued
Writers in the Library hosts local poets Judy Loest and Linda Parsons Marion on Monday, March 24. Readings begin at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library auditorium. Born in Snowflake, Virginia, Judy Loest earned her Master’s Degree in English from the University of Tennessee in 1998. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies … Continued
****EVENT MOVED TO THE MARY E. GREER ROOM**** ****258 Hodges Library (at Melrose Ave. entrance)**** Who are the Melungeons? These mysterious inhabitants of Hancock County, Tennessee and environs are one of a number of “tri-racial isolate”* groups living in southern Appalachia. Like other mixed-race groups, they were the targets of legal and social restrictions enacted … Continued