Yesterday, local teachers convened at Pebble Hill for a
workshop with Breeden Scholar Tom Hallock on the topic of outdoor education and
the English Studies classroom. Professor Hallock shared practical knowledge and
provided a short critical grounding, helping participants move their writing
and literature classes to an outdoor setting.
Dr. Hallock is the author
of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier
Narratives, Environmental Politics and the Roots of a National Pastoral (2003,
UNC Press) and co-editor of William
Bartram, the Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters and Unpublished
Writings (2010, UGA Press). He is a graduate of Dickinson College and holds a Ph.D. in English and
American Literature from New York University.
He
is an associate professor of English at the University of South Florida
St. Petersburg.
From left to right: CMD CAH Director Mark Wilson, Jared Gullage, Tom Hallock, Scott Fleming, Amber Berry-Moore, Amy Robertson, Katharine Martin.
On Thursday, October 3, 6:30
p.m., the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities in the
College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University will screen Point
Of View’s Brooklyn Castle (90 minutes)
at the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (450 East Thach Avenue). The
screening is free and open to the public.
Brooklyn Castle tells the stories of five members of the chess team
at a below-the-poverty-line inner city junior high school that has won more
national championships than any other in the country. The film follows the
challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the
chessboard, and is as much about the sting of their losses as it is about the
anticipation of their victories. Ironically, the biggest obstacle thrust upon
them arises not from other competitors but from recessionary budget cuts to all
the extracurricular activities at their school. Brooklyn Castle shows how these kids’ dedication to chess magnifies
their belief in what is possible for their lives.
Mark Wilson, director of the Caroline
Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, will lead a discussion after
the film. Refreshments will be served.
PBS’s POV is television's
longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. The screening is sponsored
by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities in the
College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Auburn Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship.
National Book Award finalist Cristina Garcia will be a
featured keynote speaker at the fourth annual Auburn Writers Conference,
“Artful Crossroads: Where the Arts Intersect,” on Friday, October 18, 2013 at
8:00 a.m. Her keynote will be free and open to the public. The conference,
hosted by the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts’ Caroline Marshall
Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities and Department of English, offers instruction, practice, perspective, and community for both
established and emerging writers.
Garcia is the author of seven novels, including: Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to Luck, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, and the recently published King of Cuba. GarcÃa has edited two
anthologies, CubanÃsimo: The Vintage
Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a
Literature. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting
Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant,
among others.
“Artful Crossroads” invites
writers and readers to come together and talk not only about craft and
publishing, but about the ways in which our words reflect other forms of art.
For some, it will be the creation of characters who happen to be artists, for
others, it might be the fusing of literature with another kind of artistic
expression, such as music, visual art, or performance.
The 2013 Auburn Writers Conference is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts’ Caroline
Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English,
Department of Music, Department of Theatre, School of Communication &
Journalism, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, the Southern
Humanities Review, and the Auburn University Special Lectures Fund.
On Friday and Saturday, October 18-19, 2013,
the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts’ Caroline Marshall Draughon
Center for the Arts and Humanities and Department of English will host the fourth
annual Auburn Writers Conference, “Artful Crossroads: Where the Arts Intersect.”
The conference offers instruction, practice, perspective, and community for both
established and emerging writers.
“Artful
Crossroads” invites writers and readers to come together and talk not only
about craft and publishing, but about the ways in which our words reflect other
forms of art. For some, it will be the creation of characters who happen to be
artists, for others, it might be the fusing of literature with another kind of
artistic expression, such as music, visual art, or performance.
The 2013
conference will feature keynote speakers Cristina Garcia, finalist for the National Book
Award and author of the upcoming King of
Cuba, and Taylor Mali, one of the most well-known poets to have emerged
from the poetry slam movement. Also featured: Chantel Acevedo, A. Manette Ansay, Emma
Bolden, David and Jeanne Heidler, Skip Horack, Keetje Kuipers, Kevin Moffett,
Michael Farris Smith, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, and Kristin Tubb, among
others.Visit the conference website for an updated list of writers and workshops.
Cristina Garcia
Taylor Mali
Registration fees are as follows: Full
conference, $250; Friday or Saturday only, $150. Students may register at a
rate of $20 per day ($35 per day including lunch).
The 2013 Auburn Writers Conference is sponsored by the College of Liberal
Arts’ Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities,
Department of English, Department of Music, Department of Theatre, School of
Communication & Journalism, Department of Foreign Languages &
Literatures, the Southern Humanities Review, and the Auburn University Special
Lectures Fund.
For more information, please visit our
conference website, follow the Caroline
Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities on Twitter (#AWC13) or join us on Facebook for updates.
On Thursday, September 5, 6:30 p.m., the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University will screen a sneak preview of Point Of View’s The World Before Her(60 minutes) at the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (450 East Thach Avenue). The screening is free and open to the public.
The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias. In one, Ruhi Singh is a small-town girl competing in Bombay to win the Miss India pageant—a ticket to stardom in a country wild about beauty contests. In the other India, Prachi Trivedi is the young, militant leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls, where she preaches violent resistance to Western culture, Christianity and Islam. Moving between these divergent realities, the film creates a lively, provocative portrait of the world's largest democracy at a critical transitional moment—and of two women who hope to shape its future.
Joyce de Vries, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Director of the Women’s Studies program, will lead a discussion before the film. Refreshments will be served.
PBS’s POV is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. The screening is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
