Announcements:
BE PREPARED FOR COOL, MAYBE EVEN COLD, WEATHER LATE THIS WEEK. HERE IS THE LOCAL FORECAST:
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A Talk Thursday night:
The University of Iowa Center for the
Book is pleased to announce the fourteenth annual Brownell Lecture in the
History of the Book. Margaret J. M. Ezell, John Paul Abbott Professor of
Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University, will present "Performance Texts:
Publishing Prophets in the Interregnum” at 8 pm, Thursday, October 12
in the Gerber Lounge (304 English/Philosophy Building
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Emaps/e/epb1.htm ). A reception will follow the
presentation.
Her talk will consider the connections between reading and public performance in
seventeenth-century England, and the relations between handwritten documents and
spiritual communication in the world of early modern publication. Her test case
for this consideration will be the radical prophets of 1650s England, figures
such as Arise Evans, Anna Trapnel, and Abiezer Coppe. Ezell’s study of their
performances helps enrich central concepts in book history such as orality,
publishing, and printedness, while shedding new light on early modern England’s
religious politics.
Margaret Ezell is a leading scholar of women’s writing in the early modern
period and of textual studies and literary history broadly conceived. She is the
author of The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the
Family, Writing Women’s Literary History, and Social Authorship
and the Advent of Print. She has edited The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady
Chudleigh and the essay volume Cultural Artifacts and the Production of
Meaning.
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If you are in town Wednesday evening before the beginning of the conference, you may be interested in the following event at the Hancher performing arts center on campus (a nice walk from the hotels):
Sarah Rothenberg,
Epigraph for a Condemned Book
Wednesday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 10:30-1:45 am / Discussion. The discussion will cover the artistic and cultural backdrop of mid-19th century Paris and the connection to Chopin's music with UI French Department and Sarah Rothenberg, Iowa City Public Library, Room A. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Iowa City Public Library
Join pianist Sarah Rothenberg on a multimedia exploration as she weaves the music of Chopin with poetry, painting and photography. With text drawn from French poet Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, a collection at the center of an obscenity trial in 1857, Rothenberg weaves a complexly beautiful tapestry.
Bring a fellow adventurer and witness why the New York Times calls Rothenberg “an excellent pianist with an interesting mind.” Rothenberg promises a deeply personal, yet meaningfully shared, experience. You’ll be captivated from the moment the lights go down—and will have plenty to talk about when they come back up.
http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/events/rothenberg.html
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If you happen to make it to Cedar Rapids during your visit, you may wish to stop by the Cedar Rapids Art Museum:
Now through December 31, 2006
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art celebrates the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn's birth in Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1606 with a selection of eight intimate, gem-like prints from the collection. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time, Rembrandt created over 300 prints and was one of the first artists to experiment with etching and drypoint techniques. These eight jewels provide access points to life and viewpoints in the 17th century. From religious images of Joseph or Tobit, filled with anecdotal details, to images of a street pancake maker or the emergent middle class, Rembrandt's prints glorify the common and elevate the mundane into great works of art. In addition to substantive enlargements that accentuate the richness of detail in Rembrandt's work, each piece will be accompanied by a magnifying glass designed to encourage the viewer to look more closely at these precious treasures.
http://www.crma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.htm