Happy Birthday: the Art Gallery Presents Artie Vierkant

The Philomathean Art Gallery Presents

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

A solo exhibition featuring the work of Artie Vierkant

Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 9th
7:30 PM
Come celebrate the opening of this aptly-titled exhibition with a reception on the artist's birthday. Refreshments will be provided.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY will be on display in the Philomathean Society Art Gallery until October 7th.

for more on the artist, visit www.artievierkant.com

for more information, please contact the Art Gallery Committee Chair, Miss Joyce Lee at helloitsjoyceslee@gmail.com.

Preliminary Tea Schedule--Fall 2008

Design by Miss Joyce Lee

Herman Beavers Lecture Audio Posted

Here.
Take this as our token that the last lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year was one to be remembered.

Herman Beavers Lecture Announced (note the date change)

The Philomathean Society Announces
a lecture by
Dr. Herman Beavers
entitled
"Bigger Goes to the Movies: Turbulence and Spectacle
in Wright's Native Son"

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
6:00 P.M.
The Philomathean Society Halls,
(see www.philomathean.org for directions)
Refreshments will be served.

Biography from Professor Beavers' website:
Herman Beavers came to Penn from Yale University, where he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1990 with a specialization in African American Literature. He is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, which was published in 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also has a chap-book of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling (1986) from Doris Publications. His poems have appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Whiskey Island, Rain, Cave Canem I and II, Dark Phrases, and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. Professor Beavers teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses dealing with the South and (along with Professor Elisa New) African- and Jewish-American literature. He values dialogue in classroom settings and thinks it is important for students to talk to one another about writing and literature. He also believes that his courses are much more about questions than static answers, especially when it comes to matters of race, gender, and class. And despite having very well-defined ideas about the kind of literature he enjoys, Professor Beavers likes to think he is open to persuasion.

Dr. Traister Audio

It's amazing. Listen.

"Dead Hoosiers" are re-animated at the Philomathean Society, April 2nd

The Philomathean Society Presents:
DEAD HOOSIERS

A Lecture by Dr. Daniel Traister,
Curator, Research Services, Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library
on
April 2nd, 2008
at Six O'Clock P.M.
in the Philomathean Halls (4th Floor College Hall, see www.philomathean.org for directions)

Light refreshments will be served, as always

Daniel Traister, a curator in Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has long been interested in why some books live and others -- most of them -- die.

"Dead Hoosiers" concerns some books written by Indianans that didn't make it. Traister is not an Indianan. He comes from New York, and his degrees come from Colby College (Waterville, Maine), New York University, and Columbia University. He occasionally teaches classes for the Department of English at Penn and for the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

For more information, one is directed towards Traister's home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~traister/

Karen Detlefsen Audio

The audio from Dr. Karen Detlefsen's lecture can be found here.