GU’s ‘What Can We Learn?’ returns Tuesday
Twice a year, Gonzaga University’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Powers Chair of the Humanities team up for a faculty presentation called “What Can We Learn?”
On Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Danielle Layne from the GU philosophy department and David Oosterhuis from the classical civilizations department will present “What Can We Learn From Ancient Mythology?”
The session will be in the Wolff Auditorium – Jepson Hall Room 114 – on the Gonzaga campus. Admission is free. For more information, call Wayne Pomerleau, the Powers Chair, at (509) 313-6750 or pomerleau@calvin.gonzaga.edu.
Same time, same campus
Also at Gonzaga on Tuesday, the English department will host scholar Cedrick May.
May, an associate professor at Texas Christian Univeristy, will lecture on “Rediscovering Jupiter Hammon: 18th Century Poet, Essayist and American Slave.”
His talk will look at what Hammon’s writing tell readers about life, particularly for slaves, around the time of the American Revolution. He will also discuss to recently discovered Hammon poems.
May’s lecture will be at the Jundt Auditorium at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
More Get Lit!
Two small presses are teaming up for a special author event to coincide with Get Lit!, the annual literary festival sponsored by Eastern Washington University.
Lost Horse and Lynx House will present authors Sam Hamill, Melissa Kwasny, Greg Pape, Robert Michael Pyle, Robert McNamara, Carlos Reyes, Prartho Sereno and Maya Jewell Zeller at noon April 26 in the Peacock Room of the Davenport Hotel, 10 N. Post St.
There will be author readings, book signings and sales, as well as music by classical and jazz guitarist Leon Atkinson and a couple (yet unnamed) percussionists. Admission is free.
For a complete rundown of Get Lit! festivities, visit getlitfestival.org. The festival runs April 20-26.