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Gould Library Athenaeum Events

By Merry Hoekstra, Gould Library
  • Meet the author, Larry Diamond, on Monday, April 28 at 3 p.m. at an informal gathering for conversation and book signing. Professor Diamond is the author of The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (2008) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. The Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Social Sciences is sponsoring this scholar’s visit.
  • A talk by Dennis Cass ’90, a free-lance writer based in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, April 30 at 3:30 p.m. Cass has been a journalist for ten years, writing for Harper's, Spin, Mother Jones, and Slate.com. His book, Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, was published in 2007. This event is sponsored by the English department’s Shuster Fund.