Tuesday, 26 April, 2011
4:00-5:00pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

1^st Place:

Alexandrina Dimitrova

Svatbarska muzika and Chalga: The Fusion of Music Genres that Contributes to a Social Change

Written for English 1000

Teacher: John Nieves

2^nd Place:

David Lamble

The Patriarchal Gentleman: American Gender Roles of Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Women Through the Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Written for History 4972.

Teacher:  Dr. Wilma King

Please check out the rotating announcements to keep up with the latest happenings at the MU Libraries. Some current highlights:

1. Tennessee Williams: The Art of Endurance is this weekend!
2. Projects and Problems in Digital Humanities, March 23
3. Library Society Dinner, April 8

Thursday, 10 February, 2011 at 2 p.m. Ellis Library Colonnade:  Curators Professor John Miles Foley will present a talk entitled Albert Lord and the Study of Oral Traditions. This presentation honors the landmark achievements of Albert Bates Lord, one of the founders of the field of studies in oral tradition, and celebrates the generous donation of his and Mary Louise Lord’s personal libraries by their sons Nathan and Mark Lord to the University of Missouri.  The discussion will trace the roots of Lord’s research and scholarship in contemporary anthropology and philology, as well as discuss the spread of this comparative approach to more than 150 language traditions from the ancient world to the present day.  Audio examples of Lord’s fieldwork collections in the Former Yugoslavia will illustrate the talk.

Jim Cogswell will welcome, introduce, and thank the Lord family for this important donation to the University and the University Libraries.  A showing of some of the more important items donated by the Lord family will be held in 401 Ellis Library, the Reading Room of Special Collections, immediately after the Professor Foley’s talk.

Wednesday, 26 Jan, 2011
1-2 p.m.
Ellis Library, Colonnade

Dr. Debra L. Mason, Executive Director of The Center on Religions and the Professions, will share findings from research on religious literacy (a survey on religious literacy from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life). Data was collected via a nationwide poll conducted from May 19 through June 6, 2010, among 3,412 Americans age 18 and older.

This event is sponsored by the MU Libraries’ Faculty Lecture Series and Diversity Action Committee.

The Parker Quartet
Jan. 24, 2011
Ellis Library Colonnade
10 am – 11 am

The Parker Quartet, four New England Conservatory graduates, began their professional career in 2002 and have been hailed as “something extraordinary” by the New York Times. Inspired by their own love for music, the Parker Quartet spend time each year with young musicians and work with them through outreach programs to help advance their musical knowledge and abilities.

They will also be performing in Jesse Auditorium on Sunday, January 23, 2011, 2 p.m.
$17 | MU students half-price | BUY ONLINE