Printer-friendly versionThe Olin Book Talks, part of the Cornell University Library’s “Chats in the Stacks” program, take place (unless otherwise noted below) in Olin Library’s Amit Bhatia Libe Café. The Book Talks feature the latest in Cornell humanities and social science scholarship, as Cornell faculty members read from their recent publications and answer questions from their audience.
Olin Book Talks: Spring 2013
Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies. Marx and Freud in Latin America (Verso Books, 2012).
Feburary 6, 4:30 pm.
Location: Amit Bhatia Libe Café, Olin Library.
Find it on the shelf in Olin Library: PQ7081 .B676 2012, but first, check to see if it is currently checked out.
Fredrik Logevall, John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, History Department, and Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Embers of War: Th e Fall of an Empire & the Making of America's Vietnam. (Random House, 2012).
Congratulations to Prof. Logevall on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Embers of War!
February 26, 4:30 pm
Location: Amit Bhatia Libe Café, Olin Library
Find it on the shelf on Olin's New & Noteworthy shelves or in Kroch Asia DS553.1 .L64 2012, but first, check to see if it is currently checked out.
See also: CBS news coverage of Prof. Logevall's book.
Shirley Samuels, ed., Professor of English and American Studies. The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Cambridge Companions to American Studies series.
March 12, 4:30 pm
Location: Kroch Library 2B48
Find it on the shelf in Olin Library: E457.2 .C245 2012, but first, check to see if it is currently checked out.
Deborah Starr, ed., Professor of Near Eastern Studes. Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanof (Stanford University Press, 2011). Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture series.
April 9, 4:30 pm
Location: Olin Library Room 106G
Find it on the shelf in Olin Library:
PJ5054.K3136 A6 2011, but first, check to see if it is currently checked out.
Olin Book Talks: Fall 2012
September 19, 4:30 pm: Victor Nee, Goldwin Smith Professor, Department of Sociology. Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China (Harvard University Press, 2012). Location: Amit Bhatia Libe Cafe.
Find it on the shelf in Kroch Library: HC427.95 .N44 2012, but first check to see if it is currently checked out.
October 23, 4:30 pm: Kim Haines-Eitzen, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Classics. The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2011). Location: Olin Library Room 106G
Find it on the shelf in Olin's New & Noteworthy Books section, but first check to see if it is currently checked out
November 13, 4:30 pm: Nerissa Russell. Department of Anthropology. Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Location: Olin Library Room 106G
Find it on the shelf in Olin (7th floor): CC79.5 .A5 R87 2012, but first check to see if it is currently checked out
Olin Book Talks: Spring 2012
May 1, 2012: Barry Strauss, Department of Classics and Chair, Department of History. Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of Leadership (Simon & Schuster, released May 1, 2012)
If it isn't already checked out (find out here), find it on the shelf on Level 2, Uris Library.
Call Number: UB200 .S78 2012.
Watch Barry Strauss discuss his book online
(video footage taken by Prof. John Weiss):
April 18, 4:00 pm in the Amit Bhatia Libe Café: Dan Schwarz, Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. Department of English. Endtimes?: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009. (State University of New York Press, March, 2012)
If it isn't already checked out (find out here), find it on the shelf in the New & Noteworthy Collection, level 1, Olin Library
Watch a video in which Prof. Schwarz discusses his new book.
April 12, 2012: Robert Ray Morgan, Kappa Alpha Professor, Department of English. Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011)
If it isn't already checked out (find out here), find it on the shelf on level 5, Olin Library
Read press coverage of the book talk.
March 28, 2012: Jeremy Braddock, Department of English. Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
If it isn't already checked out (find out here), find it on the shelf in the New & Noteworthy Collection, level 1, Olin Library
Please note that Kim Haines-Eitzen's book talk on her The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity, has been rescheduled for Fall 2012.
Olin Book Talks: Fall 2011 Schedule
September 20, 2011: Ziad Fahmy, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Ordinary Egyptians, Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, Fall 2011)
In Olin Library: DT70 .F225 2011 (fifth floor stacks)
November 8, 2011: Mary Beth Norton, History Department
Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in
the Colonial Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2011)
In Olin Libary: New & Noteworthy Books (non-fiction)