- Newsworthy: Dr. Robin Sabino, Her Work With the Center for Diversity & Race Relations, and the Second Annual War Eagle Native American Festival
- Article by Jim Ryan Featured as Lead Essay in American Literary History
- Informational Meeting for MTPC Students - Today - 1:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center
- EGO Hosts Panel Discussion on PhD Examinations - Today - 3:00 pm - Eagle's Nest North
- Auburn Chamber Music Society - First Concert of the Season - Tonight - 7:30 pm - Goodwin Recital Hall
- Alumna Alise Chabaud - Job Search Strategies - Thursday, November 13 - 3:30 pm - 3309 Haley Center
- Requests for Technology-Enhanced Classrooms Due by Thursday, November 13 at 4:40 pm
- Great Flicks - Wednesday, November 19 - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
- Deadline for Truman Scholarships - Friday, December 5
- English Department End of Year Party - Thursday, December 11
- The Alabama Prison Arts Initiative Now Accepting Book Donations
- Reminder - Nominations for CLA Teaching Awards and Humanities Awards Due Soon
Dr. Robin Sabino, Her Work With the
Center for Diversity & Race Relations, and the Second Annual War
Eagle Native American Festival
Associate
Professor Robin Sabino’s work with the Center
for Diversity & Race
Relations (CDRR) is extensive, as is the amount of enthusiasm people
have expressed about the Center’s mission. Since the CDRR opened
on January 14 of this year, Dr. Sabino has played a role in its
accomplishments, which include a celebration for St. Patrick’s
Day, two events for Scottish-American Heritage Month, and the Klezmer
Concert. The CDRR is about to publicize events for Black History Month.
Dr. Sabino has found that her work at the Center ties into the quantitative sociolinguistic research she does. One such area of research involves the revitalization of languages to help prevent “language death.” Dr. Sabino is currently helping to revitalize the Cherokee language once spoken by the Echota Tsalagi tribe. Her work with the Cherokee language, coupled with this week’s event—the Second Annual War Eagle Native American Festival—is a prime example of the ties between her research and her work as Acting Assistant Director for the CDRR. Learn more about the Echota Tsalagi Language Revitalization Project.
The
Second Annual War Eagle Native American Festival, a free event
open to the public, will take place at the Gardens of The
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art on:
Friday, November 14 (10:00 am – 4:30
pm)
Saturday, November 15 (10:00 am – 4:30 pm)
Sunday,
November 16 (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
Celebrating Southeastern Native American culture and history, the Festival will showcase artisans, food, musicians, traditional storytellers, and living campsites with Mark Davis, Pete Dunaway, Jim Saw Grass, and Deborah Sanders. Examples of the craft demonstrations include archery, basketry, beading, flint knapping, herb craft, leather work, pottery making, and tanning.
In conjunction with the War Eagle Native American Festival, the RBD Library and Archives will host a Genealogy Workshop tailored for beginners as well as those advanced in genealogical research. Seating for the Genealogy Workshop is limited. To sign up, call Joyce Hicks at 844-1705. If you would like more information about the CDRR or would like to check out diversity-related material for classroom use, email Dr. Sabino.
Article by Jim Ryan Featured as Lead Essay in American
Literary History
Jim Ryan's article, "Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular
Books and the Fate of Catholic Criticism," appears as the lead
essay in the current Fall 2003 issue of American Literary History.
This publication deals with the interwoven problems of literary nationalism, the politics of book-reviewing in nineteenth-century America, and the representation of gender, all from the point of view of an influential Roman Catholic convert. View the article online.
Informational Meeting for MTPC Students - Today - 1:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center
EGO Hosts Panel Discussion on PhD Examinations
- Today - 3:00 pm - Eagle's Nest North
EGO will host a panel discussion today at 3:00 pm in the Eagle's
Nest North on preparing for and taking PhD comprehensive examinations.
Graduate students Robin Bates, John Kwist, and Rhonda Powers will be
joined by graduate faculty member Dr. Bert Hitchcock in a discussion
about how to survive the examination process.
Auburn Chamber Music Society - First Concert
of the Season - Tonight - 7:30 pm - Goodwin Recital
Hall
The
Auburn Chamber Music Society will be presenting the first concert of
its 2003-2004 Season tonight at 7:30 pm in Goodwin
Recital Hall.
This concert features the Talich Quartet who will be performing three works:
Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Opus 18 #2
Schulhoff's String
Quartet #1
Schubert's A minor String Quartet, D. 804, "Rosamunde"
Tickets are $20 apiece; $5 for University students. All audience members are invited to a reception for the quartet at Greystone Manor immediately following the concert.
For more information, email Craig Bertolet, Co-President of the Auburn Chamber Music Society.
Alumna Alise Chabaud - Job Search Strategies
- Thursday, November 13 - 3:30 pm - 3309 Haley Center
Alise Chabaud (MTPC, 2003) will discuss job search strategies
during her presentation Thursday, November 13 at 3:30 pm in 3309 Haley
Center. Chabaud is a Performance Support Designer in the Education Division
of TSYS in Columbus, Georgia.
MTPC and other interested students are invited to attend.
Requests for Technology-Enhanced Classrooms Due by Thursday,
November 13 at 4:40 pm
Remember to submit
your online request for technology-enhanced classrooms
(3104, 3174, 3182, 3309 Haley Center) by Thursday,
November 13 at 4:40
pm.
The sign up sheets for the computer classrooms (3116 and 3143 Haley Center) will be posted outside 8066 Haley Center once the schedule is finalized.
Great Flicks - Wednesday, November 19
- 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
Apu Sansar (World of Apu) (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
This is probably the best
known Indian film. The following passage is the IMDB's description
of the plot: "Apu
is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An
old
college friend
talks him into
a visit up-country to a village wedding. This changes his life, for
when the bridegroom turns out to be mad, Apu's friend asks him to
become the husband!"
See the fall schedule for the Great Flicks series.
Deadline for Truman Scholarships -
Friday, December 5
Truman Scholarships are awarded to students with outstanding
potential who are committed to careers in government or elsewhere in
public service and who wish to attend graduate or professional school
to help prepare for their careers.
More details and application forms are available online. Completed applications for Truman Scholarships must be received in the University Honors College Office on the fourth floor of the RBD Library by Friday, December 5, 2003.
English Department End of Year Party - Thursday, December
11
After the success of last year's end of year party, the Department
has made preliminary arrangements for this year's party to be at Pebble
Hill on Thursday, December 11, beginning at 6:00 pm.
The Alabama Prison Arts Initiative
Now Accepting Book Donations
The Alabama Prison Arts Initiative
is currently trying to procure more books for the libraries of
the facilities where they teach creative
writing classes. Their last request for books put more than
500 titles in a newly established library at the Annex for the Julia
Tutwiler State Prison for Women. They are now trying to help
get books for the Frank Lee Youth Center - the newest location for
the creative writing classes.
Literature is needed, from the classics to contemporary writing. Hardback and paperback books can be accepted. However, because The Alabama Prison Arts Initiative is associated with a state-sponsored educational facility, religious literature cannot be taken into the libraries.
If you have books you would like to donate, please place them in the box located in 8009 Haley Center (eighth floor lounge). Book donations can also be sent to:
The Alabama Prison Arts Initiative
c/o Kyes Stevens
Pebble Hill
Auburn University, AL 36849
Please email any questions to Kyes Stevens, or call her at 844-4523.
Reminder - Nominations for CLA Teaching
Awards and Humanities Awards Due Soon
Nominations are due in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) office
on Monday, December 1 for both the Academy and the regular CLA Teaching
Awards. Nominations are due in the CLA office on Monday, December 15
for the four Humanities awards.
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 am for publication Wednesday. Submit items by email to Kelly Messerschmidt or Betsy Smith or put the information in their mailbox. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event.
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