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3/23/06
Greetings, Readers!
As you may know, these are interesting times. With so many local events,
how is one to keep track of it? Why, with our handy newsletter, of course!
Hopefully, this little missive finds you all in good spirits. If not, then
we have just the thing to lift them - information! The currency of the
future! Given away free in the present, by the good folks at Book People of
Moscow. This update also features several press releases sent in by Alert
Readers - as always, if you have anything to add to our little updates,
please feel free to send it in!
First of all, Book People of Moscow would like to congratulate the
winners of the 2006 Moscow Renaissance Fair poster contest! We can't tell
you who they are (yet!), as they have only just tonight been selected, but
look to see some truly excellent artwork hitting the streets soon.
Congratulations!
Remember, Readers! The Borah symposium is almost here! Just in case you
have forgotten, here is a rundown of the schedule: Monday, March 27th -
Michael Klare and Aaron Wolf will speak on the topic of "Oil and Water:
Conflict Over Resources". Tuesday, March 28th, Severn Cullis-Suzuki will
speak on "Recognition of Responsibility: Cooperation or Conflict". And
Wednesday, March 29th, Jared Diamond will give a lecture, entitled "Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". (If this last title sounds
familiar, Readers, it is because it is the name of his excellent book,
coincidentally available at Book People!)
All of the lectures start at 7:00pm on their respective days, and they
all take place in the SUB Ballroom. For more information on the talks,
please check out the Borah Symposium website at
http://www.martin.uidaho.edu/borah/2006_symposium.html
From Alert Reader and local author Mark Sanders: March 30, 730 PM at the
Center for Arts and History, Southern writer Kelly Cherry is presenting the
Wallace Stegner Lecture. The Talking River Publications group is publishing
the lecture, "The Globe and The Brain: On Place in Fiction," as a special
monograph. It'll be available at the lecture and is available for sale to
bookstore venues.
An added note: This event takes place at the Center for Arts and History
at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston.
Readers, the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC) is almost
here! Friday, March 31st marks the first day of this amazing event. If you
would like more information about how to register or attend, please visit
the website at
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/inpc/9th-2006/ . If you cannot commit to a
full conference, however, then perhaps I can interest you in a free public
forum? That's right, Readers, the INPC has a FREE public forum! A yearly
tradition, beloved by philosophers and locals alike, where a panel of
experts from various fields give short talks, and then chats with the
audience about philosophy. Having attended several of these in the past, I
can promise that it's a blast. This year, the public forum is entitled "What
Should We Do for Nature? Environmental Problems, Responsibility, and
Action". This year, the panelists are drawn from University of Idaho and
Washington State University faculty from the fields of Law, Philosophy,
Sociology, and Wildlife Biology. Rounding out the panel will be Mark
Solomon, one of Moscow's favourite activists.
If this sounds like the event for you, then come check out the Public
Forum. It will take place at the University Inn in the Silver and Gold rooms
from 7:30 to 9:30.
From Alert Reader Andrea: The WSU department of English continues its
Spring 2006 Visiting Writer
Series on Wednesday, April 5 with esteemed poet Robert Wrigley. Wrigley is
the author of six books of poetry, including In the Bank of Beautiful Sins
and Reign of Snakes. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Frederick Bock Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. His
most recent book, Lives of the Animals, won the Poetsą Prize in 2005. He
directs and teaches in the University of Idaho Master of Fine Arts program
in creative writing.
The reading, sponsored by the WSU department of English, the Visual,
Performing, and Literary Arts Committee at WSU, and the Museum of Art/WSU is
scheduled for the WSU fine arts auditorium adjacent to the Museum of Art/WSU
at 7:30 p.m. Books and refreshments will be available after the reading.
Contact Andrea Mason at (509) 335-6846 for more information.
Also from the good Mr. Sanders, paraphrased this time: On April 10th, R.
T. Smith will be at Lewis-Clark State College. And, on the 11th, he will be
at the coming to the University of Idaho to do a reading to promote his new
book of poetry, ENSEMBLE.
An added note: We will, naturally, provide more details as we have them.
But you heard it here first! Poet R. T. Smith is coming to town!
That's all for now, Readers! We'll have more information for you as things
develop. Until next time, take care!
-Book People of Moscow
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