Event: Library of the Early Mind 10/19

There's an event at the Grad School of Education about children's literature!

Premiere of Library of the Early Mind
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 5:30 – 8pm

Location	13 Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138
Type of Event	Discussion, Film, Forum, Question & Answer Session, Reception
Building/Room	Askwith Hall
Contact Name	Amber Haskins
Contact Email	askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
Contact Phone	617-384-9968
Sponsoring Organization/Department	Harvard Graduate School of Education
Registration Required	No

Premiere of Library of the Early Mind

Moderator: Lolly Robinson, adjunct lecturer, HGSE

Panelists: Filmmakers Edward Delaney and Steven Withrow; Roger Sutton, editor in chief of Horn Book Magazine; and children’s authors Lois Lowry, Lesléa Newman, Jerry Pinkney and Padma Venkatraman.

Library of the Early Mind is a documentary exploring the impact of children’s literature. A Q&A session, book signing and reception will follow the screening.

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/events/index.html#/?i=1

Read more about it here: http://libraryoftheearlymind.com/

Discuss: Which children's writer or book has had the most impact on your life?

Event: Reading & Conversation -- 4/30

The Harvard Advocate Presents...

Henri Cole: A Reading and Conversation
Harold Bloom says: "a central poet of his generation."

Time: Friday, April 30th, 1:30 pm
Location: 21 South Street

Refreshments will be served

Cole's awards and honors include the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

From 1982 until 1988 Cole was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since then he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Smith College, Reed College, Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Event: Publishing/Children's Literature 4/30

From Elise...

Want To Be A Writer?
Interested in Publishing?

History and Literature presents a conversation with

Elise Broach (author of MASTERPIECE) and Marie Rutkoski (author of THE CELESTIAL GLOBE)

Elise and Marie will discuss and answer questions about children's literature, the intersection of history and literature, creative writing, and publishing.

Time: 2-3pm, Friday, April 30, 2010
Location: Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room)

ELISE BROACH is the author of many picture books and three novels. Both When Dinosaurs Came with Everything and Masterpiece (currently a NY Times Bestseller) won the E. B. White Read Aloud Award of the Association of Booksellers for Children, and Shakespeare's Secret was an Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery. Elise holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Yale University, and lives with her family in Connecticut, where she writes and serves in town government.

MARIE RUTKOSKI grew up in Bolingbrook, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), as the oldest of four children. In high school, she was a member of the Young Adult Advisory Board at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook. She later attended the University of Iowa, where she took Writers’ Workshop classes and also studied with Pulitzer Prize–winner James Alan McPherson. After graduating, she lived in Moscow and Prague. Upon receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University, she held dual appointments as a lecturer there in both English and American Literature and Language, and History and Literature. Ms. Rutkoski is currently a professor at Brooklyn College. She lives in New York City.

Event: Literature As Recycleable Material 4/30

I'm a little biased about this event, but it sounds really cool:

Literature as Recyclable Material (Part of ARTS 2010)

Time: Friday 4/30 02:00 PM
Location: CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S010

No Tickets Required. Free and Open to the Public.

A workshop with the Paper Picker Press that explores artistic interventions into challenging texts. Rewrite, reinterpret and rediscover literature as a recyclable material.

Tylor Brandon '12, facilitator.

Event: Working in Non-Profits Panel -- Friday, 4/23

Meet CEOs in the Non-Profit World: Explore the Pathways to Leadership

This Friday (April 23) 4:30 pm

Interested in meeting CEOs from four of the largest non-profit organizations in the country? Want to learn more about what it takes to become a leader in the non-profit sector? Come hear from members of Leadership 18, a coalition of not-for-profit CEOs whose organizations serve over 87 million people annually and work with over 5.5 million volunteers. The panel will be moderated by David Ellwood, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is open to all University students. Speakers include:

Stephen Bennett, CEO, United Cerebral Palsy;

James Firman, CEO, National Council on Aging;

Peter Goldberg, CEO, Alliance for Children & Families; and

Roxanne Spillett, CEO, Boys & Girls Club of the USA.

DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larson 106

RSVP: ocsrsvp@fas.harvard.edu. Include your name and Harvard affiliation in your response. Space is limited.

Leadership 18 Member Organizations

Alliance for Children and Families, AARP, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Boy Scouts of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Camp Fire USA, Catholic Charities USA, Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Incorporated, Goodwill Industries International, Inc., Lutheran Services in America, Mental Health America, National Council of La Raza, National Urban League, Inc., The Salvation Army, United Cerebral Palsy, United Way of America, Visiting Nurse Associations of America, Volunteers of America, YMCA of the USA, and YWCA USA.

Event at Harvard

From The Living Magazine:

An International Literary Event!

Location: Arthur Sackler Museum Auditorium on 485 Broadway
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 14

The second installment of the Visiting Writers Series will be a performed literary magazine featuring, among others, Chinese poets Bei Ling (co-editor of the banned Chinese literary magazine TENDENCY) and Meng Lang (co-editor of TENDENCY and editor-in-chief of the banned Chinese online literary magazine FREEDOM TO WRITE); Burmese poet and surgeon Ma Thida (editor of Burmese TEEN Magazine); and Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour (editor of the banned Iranian literary magazine THURSDAY EVENING).

This event is free and open to the public; students are encouraged to attend.