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#57, February 23, 2005


Events

O'Donnell's Augustine, A New Biography

»Library Associates Events


March 16
The Magical Mystery of the Sea
Ruth Petzold, underwater photographer
South Florida

April 16
Augustine: A Conversation with the Provost
John Carroll Awards Weekend
Chicago, IL

More information on these and additional 2004-2005 Library Associates events will be updated here.

 


 

News and Announcements

»Man Booker International Prize Short List Announced in Lauinger Library

The judges for a new international literary prize, the Man Booker International Prize, announced their short list of eighteen contenders at a press conference on February 18 in the Pierce Reading Room of Lauinger Library. The press conference is available for viewing online. The winner of the prize will be announced in June 2005.

The Library Associates and the Georgetown University Humanities Initiative hosted a panel entitled The Book As Prize with the judges on the evening of the 18th.

»Sign up for the Spring 2005 multimedia workshops offered by the Gelardin New Media Center here.

 


Exhibits

»In the Fairchild Gallery, Fifth Floor Lauinger. John W. Winkler's Drawings for the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

»In the Gunlocke Room, Fifth Floor Lauinger: Monastic Bindings of Three Centuries.

»In the Leon Robbin Gallery, Fifth Floor Lauinger: Two Black Composers: R. Nathaniel Dett & J. Rosamond Johnson.

»In the Stephen Richard Kerbs Exhibit Area, Third Floor Lauinger: Georgetown's Renaissance Man: Francis Leslie Fadner, S.J., 1910-1987

»In the Government Documents Display Case, First Floor Lauinger: Climate Change.

»In the Napolitano Exhibit Space, New Media Center, First Floor Lauinger: Student Art Work: Beginning and Advanced Photography Classes and Beginning Digital Art, Fall Semester 2004.

1953 cartoon spoofing Father Fadner, on exhibit in the Kerbs Exhibit Area.

Edward Louis Stephens II (F'56), "I Know it Doesn't Make Sense!" It's Just OUR Policy, in The Foreign Service Courier (Georgetown University, 16 October 1953) Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 16.

Famous on campus as a strict disciplinarian and for his dramatic lecture style, Father Fadner was affectionately spoofed in campus publications such as the Courier, a monthly official SFS newspaper; and Protocol, the former SFS yearbook.

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