January 29        Noon

HDR

Celebration of Morningside Faculty/Staff Book Writers: Lara Walker, translator and editor of Absolute Equality: An Early Feminist Perspective/Influencias de las ideas modernas, by Luisa Capetillo; Pam Mickelson, a book-in-progress, Brand Name Workbook; Marlene Jacobson, various books on curriculum, performance-based education, educational technology, and study skills.

Wednesday,

February 3        Noon

Roadman Formal

Thinking from Women's Lives: Terry Women's Studies Lecturer Sandra Harding--author or editor of 15 books on gender, culture and science--reads from some of her writings and discusses the issue of "objectivity" in science writing.

February 5        Noon

HDR

Blogging with Admissions counselor Jim Braunschweig.  (To read Jim's blog, go to the Admissions website and click on "Wordpress.com/Twitter").

(All campus bloggers invited to come and participate.)

February 12      Noon

HDR

The Collegian Reporter goes online.  Editors Amanda Franzen and Laura Homan and other CR writers share their work and discuss the challenges and opportunities of online newspaper publication.  Students interested in writing for the CR are encouraged to come.

February 19      Noon

HDR

MLA, APA, IRRB.  Kim Christopherson and Marty Knepper will provide materials on using the new APA and MLA guidelines for research writing.  Kim will also talk about how to prepare a human or animal subjects research request to the Institutional Research Review Board.

March 12           Noon

HDR

Leslie Werden, Jessica DeVega, and Jen Moskowitz’s Composition and Communication students share writings about humor, rap, and food.

March 19           Noon

Circulation Area

H-J-F Learning Center

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Morningside’s First Limerick Slam!   Prizes: $50 for best original limerick on any subject and $50 for best original limerick on a Morningside topic.  Contest open to everyone. Bring your limericks, write them at the session, or just come to have fun.  Limerick: Nonsensical verse (often containing word play or puns).  Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme, and the shorter lines 3 and 4 rhyme.  

              One Saturday morning at three

              A cheesemonger’s shop in Paree

              Collapsed to the ground

              With a thunderous sound

              Leaving only a pile of de brie.

March 26           Noon

HDR

Writing about Popular Culture:  A reading and conversation with two distinguished popular culture commentators, John Lawrence and Robert Jewett, who have written about James Bond, Star Trek, The Matrix, video games, superheroes, religion and the movies, and more.

April 9                Noon

HDR

Cultural Factors and Mental Health: Lori Doeschot's Mental Health class shares papers on this topic.

April 16              Noon

Yockey Room

Morningside’s Ad Club presents their annual advertising campaign, this year a plan for incentives for conservation-friendly management of agricultural land.

Wednesday,

April 21              Noon

UPS Auditorium

Lincoln Ctr.

(Tentative)  Reading and conversation with Norton Juster, award-winning children’s book writer, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, The Dot and the Line, Alberic the Wise, Otter Nonsense, The Hello Goodbye Window, and Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie.

April 23              Noon

HDR

Publication Party for the Kiosk!   Readings by Kiosk writers and members of Steve Coyne’s Creative Non-Fiction and Advanced Fiction Writing classes