Library's Neilly Series:
From the seismic to the sublime
ow in its fourth year, the Neilly Series, sponsored by the River Campus Libraries and supported by an endowment from Andrew H. '47 and Janet Dayton Neilly and Ronald F. Dow, the Neilly Dean of Libraries, kicks off September 23.
September 23: David Owen, author of Copies in Seconds, about the story behind the invention of the Xerox machine. Introduced by Catherine Carlson. (Hoyt Auditorium, 5:30 p.m.)
October 8: Prolific writer Edward P. Jones, author of the novel The Known World, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. (Hubbell Auditorium, 5 p.m.)
November 11: Roy Blount Jr., a humorist who is a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and who has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, CBS Morning Show, The Tonight Show, and Late Show with David Letterman. (Hoyt Auditorium, 5 p.m.)
January 27: Stuart Weaver, professor of British history, will present "Because It Was There: Mallory, Everest, and the 1920s." (Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.)
February 24: Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die, will explore the ceremonies of modern mourning. (Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.)
March 31: Paula Treichler, professor in the College of Medicine, the Gender & Women's Studies Program, and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, will present "Medicine, Culture, and Narrative Power: AIDS on General Hospital." She will explore the community and cultural responses to AIDS and address AIDS in Africa. (Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.)
April 21: Charles (Chip) Groat '62, director of the U.S. Geological Service, will discuss "U.S. Geological Survey: 125 Years of Science for America," how the USGS began as surveys of the West in the 1870s and has evolved into a natural science agency. (Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.)
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