by Public Relations | Sep 17, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students
Dr. Brandon Absher (assistant professor of philosophy, D’Youville College) will deliver the first colloquium in the Ignatian Scholars Colloquium Series Thursday, September 18, 2014. Dr. Absher’s talk, “The One-Dimensional University: A Marcusean Critique of Outcomes Assessment,” addresses outcomes assessment in higher education using conceptual tools from Herbert Marcuse’s important work, “One Dimensional Man.”
The colloquium will be held at 4:15 p.m. in the Campus Ministry Conference Room (OM 219). Please contact Dr. Melissa Mosko (moskom@canisius.edu) for more information.
Submitted by: Dr. Melissa Mosko, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
by Public Relations | Sep 17, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students
During banned book week, September 22-26, the Latin American Studies Program, the Modern Languages Literature and Cultures Department, and the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library will jointly sponsor a panel on Gabriel García the acclaimed 1982 Nobel Prize Literature winner’s work and legacy.
Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, made the list of the 50 most frequently banned books in the United States. The book was disputed on the claim’s that it was obscene, profane, and violent.
Come and join us Monday, September 22 from 1:00 p.m to 2:00 p.m. (ABL, Library, 1st Floor, Library Learning Center). Refreshments will be served.
We hope to see you there!
Submitted by: Maureen Kanczak, administrative associate, Department of Modern Languages
by Public Relations | Sep 17, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students
Jocabed Gallegos, a Mexican coordinator with Frontera de Cristo, a Presbyterian border ministry located in the sister cities of Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona, will speak on the issues of violence, poverty, trade, health care and family life faced by these two cities along the US/Mexico border, on Monday, September 22 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in Science Hall Commons. This event is free and open to the public.
The lecture is Cosponsored by Canisius College Campus Ministry, Latin American Studies, Department of Modern Languages and the Latin America Solidarity Committee of the WNY Peace Center.
For questions, contact Terry Bisson at bisson@canisius.edu.
Submitted by: Sarah Signorino, associate campus minister, Campus Ministry
by Public Relations | Sep 17, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students
A gift, of rare books from Joseph M. Hassett ’64 to the Rev. J. Clayton Murray, SJ, Archives and Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library, will be featured in an exhibit in the Peter and Mary Lou Vogt Gallery, located on the library’s main floor, through October 9, 2014.
The Irish Literary Revival and the City of Light: W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr ~ Visits to Buffalo, NY 1907-1914 draws from this acquisition and focuses on performances in Buffalo of two leading figures of the Irish literary revival: the Nobel Prize winning poet, William Butler Yeats, and his sometime Muse, Florence Farr, the actress, theater manager and reciter to a stringed instrument called the psaltery.
Performances and readings by Yeats and Farr were given at the Albright Art Gallery (now Albright-Knox Art Gallery) and the 20th Century Club on Delaware Avenue on various dates from 1907-1914.
The W.B. Yeats Collection Gift of Joseph M. Hassett ’64 includes first edition inscribed volumes by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Among the gifts are works printed and published in the early 20th century by the famous Dublin arts and crafts , Cuala Press, operated by the poet’s sister, Elizabeth. Also included are inscribed volumes of Yeats’ essays, as well as a very rare first edition of his play “Land of Heart’s Desire” featuring a cover and title page drawing of Aubrey Beardsley’s iconic design for the Avenue Theater poster.
Hassett received his BA in English from Canisius, and is a noted Yeats scholar. The author of two books on the poet, Yeats and the Poetics of Hate; and, W.B. Yeats and the Muses, he also is a graduate of Harvard Law School,holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin, Ireland, and currently practices law in Washington, D.C. A member of the Board of Trustees, he is founder of the Hassett Family Reading at Canisius College, which hosts prominent Irish Literary figures on campus.
Included in Hassett’s gift is a copy of Seamus Heaney’s Nobel Lecture, Crediting Poetry inscribed, “For Canisius College/Remembering the welcome for the Joseph Hassett Reading/ 23 October 2013.” This volume is installed in a case on the library’s lower level.
Hassett will close the exhibit with the Archives Speaker Series Lecture, W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr Visit the City of Light, on Tuesday, October 7 at 7 p.m. in the library. Please note that due to a scheduling conflict, the date for this lecture has been moved from Thursday, October 9. We apologize for any inconvenience.
The exhibit is open to the public during the library’s open hours listed here: http://library.canisius.edu/hours. Both the exhibit and lecture are free.
For more information please contact: Kathleen DeLaney, Archivist at 716-888-8421 or delaneyk@canisius.edu
Submitted by: Kathleen DeLaney,Archivist/Reference Librarian, Library
by Public Relations | Sep 17, 2014 | Faculty, Staff
Faculty are to continue to drop off and pick up any make-up or special accommodation tests or quizzes in the General Proctor Site located in OM 317. Tests or quizzes can also be Emailed to dss@canisius.edu or directly to Tracy Callaghan at callagh2@canisius.edu. Proctor forms are also available in OM 317. If you have any questions, please contact the office at 888-2586.
Tracy Callaghan, coordinator, GRIFF Center
Dr. Brandon Absher (assistant professor of philosophy, D’Youville College) will deliver the first colloquium in the Ignatian Scholars Colloquium Series Thursday, September 18, 2014. Dr. Absher’s talk, “The One-Dimensional University: A Marcusean Critique of Outcomes Assessment,” addresses outcomes assessment in higher education using conceptual tools from Herbert Marcuse’s important work, “One Dimensional Man.”
