Gould Library Athenaeum Events

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By Merry Hoekstra, Gould Library

David Rains Wallace, acclaimed nature writer, will give a reading on Wednesday, October 22 at 7 p.m. He is a Headley Distinguished Visitor-in-Residence at the College for two weeks. Wallace is the author of sixteen books, including The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (1983) which won the John Burroughs Medal and Neptune’s Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas (2007). He lives in Berkeley, California, and has also written two “eco-thrillers.” A book-signing will follow the reading.

A panel discussion titled “Children of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar” will be held on Thursday, October 23 at 5 p.m. This joint Muslim, Christian, and Jewish text discussion will be led by Rabbi Shosh Dworsky, Imam Adil Ozdemir, and Reverend Carolyn Fure-Slocum. A light dinner will be served.

The Art Gallery will present “Contemporary Zulu Ceramics: Life Stories from Azolina McMncube Ngema and Clive Sithole,” by Elizabeth Perrill, on Friday, October 24, at 4:30 p.m. Perrill, an assistant professor of African Art History at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, conducted her dissertation research in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, with Nesta Nala, the matriarch of Zulu ceramics and her family and artistic circle. Through two case studies, Perrill will discuss not only how the art world and traditional cultures interact in South Africa, but also consider the impact of art market trends on gender roles. This lecture is supported by the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Lectureship in Art History and sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation, and it complements "World Ceramics: Transforming Women's Traditions," featuring some fabulous Zulu pots on display in the Art Gallery through November 19.