Michigan Writers Series - Campus Authors
Tuesday, October 13, 5:00 pm EDT- Book Discussion and Panel
North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library

In coordination with the MSU American Indian Studies Program, the Library's Michigan Writers Series-Campus Authors presents book discussion and panel with:

Heather A. Howard, assistant professor of anthropology at Michigan State University and coeditor of Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities (2009).

Susan Applegate Krouse, associate professor of anthropology and the director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University and coeditor of Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities (2009).

Susan Lobo, distinguished visiting scholar in American Indian Studies at University of Arizona and author of Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana. Tucson (2009), as well as coeditor of Native American Voices, Third Edition (2010).

Kimberli A. Lee, assistant professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University and author of "I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter":The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965 (2009).

Mindy J. Morgan, associate professor of anthropology and the acting director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University, and author of The Bearer of this Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (2009).

Susan Sleeper-Smith, professor of history at Michigan State University, and editor of Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World (2009) and Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives (2009).

A brief reception will follow the panel discussion.





Borges and MSU

Date: Thursday, October 15, 4:30 PM
Place: MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, W449 (West Wing)

Description of event: Talk with speaker Donald A. Yates followed by reception with refreshments.

Donald A. Yates will speak about his long relationship with the acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yates is Professor Emeritus of Michigan State University's Spanish and Portuguese Department, and translator of the first collection of works by Borges to appear in English. As a result of their friendship, Borges made several visits to East Lansing and the MSU campus.

Co-sponsoring campus units: MSU Libraries and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)