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Library is closed
The Calvin T. Ryan Library is closed until further notice. Remote services are still available. A guide highlighting remote services for students and faculty can be found at https://guides.library.unk.edu/remotelibraryservices.
CTR Library Faculty Profile Series & The Phi Alpha Theta Lecture Series
Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, or Merely the Wall?: The History of and Life Behind the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989
Dr. Torsten Homberger
Visiting Assistant Professor – History
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
4pm – Main Floor, C.T. Ryan Library
FREE and open to the public
November 9, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During the Cold War, the Wall divided the city of Berlin into two parts, just like the Iron Curtain divided the German nation. This commemorative lecture will put the 28-year history of the Berlin Wall and the German-German border into historical perspective. Dr. Homberger will give an inside view of what it was like to grow up in East Germany and what it was like to witness the fall of the Wall from an East German perspective. The lecture will also address the current issues regarding “the Wall” that today exists in the minds of many Germans.
CTR Library Faculty Profile Series & The Phi Alpha Theta Lecture Series
“Mark your memory of tired empty faces”: Doing History from the Bottom-up with the Down and Out
Dr. Nathan Tye
Assistant Professor of History
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
7pm – Main Floor, C.T. Ryan Library
FREE and open to the public
Hobos, tramps and bums – men and women who hopped trains and lived on the road from the 1870s to 1930s – are notoriously difficult to pin down, as railroad police officers and the historians that followed can attest. Records are scant and fragmentary. Letters or diaries are few and far between. How then do historians study this marginalized community? Dr. Nathan Tye will discuss his research and methods and share rare and one-of-a-kind material from his private collection of hobo letters, diaries, and newspapers.
National Book Awards Announced
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.
https://www.nationalbook.org/the-2019-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/
College of Arts & Science Book Festival
The 2nd CAS Book Festival will be happening on Thursday October 10 in the Calvin T. Ryan Library from 12-5PM. The event has been organized by Mallory Wetherell (Art & Design), Susan Honeyman (English), and Jeremy Armstrong (Physics, Astronomy & Engineering).
The schedule for the event is:
1-2:30pm: Panel on Collaborative Research & Writing
Featuring Kim Carlson (Biology), Jeremy Dillon (Geography), Bryan Drew (Biology), and Chuck Rowling (Political Science)
2:30-4pm: Panel on Inter-disciplinary Research & Creative Writing
Featuring Michelle Beissel Heath (English), Dan May (Art & Design), and Janice Fronczak (Theatre)
American Libraries article on Banned Books
Here’s an article from American Libraries about censorship and challenges.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/09/24/censorship-beyond-books/
