The Library’s Heritage Room is currently hosting American Hands: A Visual Celebration of Traditional Tradespeople, a traveling exhibit of work by photographer Sally Wiener Grotta. American Hands is Sally Wiener Grotta’s ongoing narrative visual celebration of those individuals who are keeping … Continue reading
Nell Regan, Irish Poet and Fulbright Scholar at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and Berkeley, CA will read from her new book, Bound for Home *Book Signing and Reception to Follow Nell Regan has won numerous … Continue reading
What’s the best way to beat the post-holiday blues? How about thinking Spring by thinking Schemel? Our Schemel Forum Spring 2012 schedule is out, and it’s packed with captivating speakers and sessions to steal your attention away from the winter … Continue reading
The Weinberg Memorial Library would like to congratulate Schemel Forum director Sondra Myers on her appointment by President Obama to the Commission on Presidential Scholars. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Commission on Presidential Scholars is a “group … Continue reading
Dr. Annie Cohen-Solal is unable to join us on the 25th. Instead the following lecture will take its place: Museums as Civic Architecture: A Global Perspective Museums are proliferating world-wide. As foreign architects design for sites in the US and … Continue reading
The Library’s Special Collections department has been featured in the news twice this summer. One of last spring’s Schemel Forum courses, The Bible As a Book, taught by Special Collections Librarian Michael Knies, explored the physical development of the Bible … Continue reading
The Schemel Forum is joining forces as a programming partner with the new Pages & Places @ Anthology to present three programs this August. Light in August, a series of conversations, is designed to shed light on subjects of both … Continue reading
It may be 90 degrees outside, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about fall – and the Library’s Fall 2011 Schemel Forum offerings! We’ve just posted the schedule, so be sure to check out our University for a … Continue reading
Philip Mosley reads from his translation of François Jacqmin’s poems with classical guitar punctuations by Jason Smeltzer. Philip Mosley, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State Worthington Scranton, will perform a reading of his translations of the poems … Continue reading
This Spring, the Schemel Forum is running a bus trip to the New York Public Library to visit their latest exhibition, Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. The trip, scheduled for February 19th, features a guided tour of the exhibition, which … Continue reading