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The Arts & Humanities Lecture Series featuring Carlos Eire

January 15, 2008
Story by Maggie Kierl, OSU Library Communcations Intern

For Immediate Release

STILLWATER - National Book Award winner Carlos Eire will speak at the first Arts and Humanities Lecture Series. The event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, OSU History Department and the OSU Library.

"It’s an honor for the Library to host another National Book Award winner,” said Sheila Grant Johnson, Dean of Libraries and Doris Neustadt Professor of Library Services. “This is a wonderful opportunity for the OSU community to hear this accomplished writer. We hope a lot of people will take advantage of it."

The lecture series will be held in two installments. The first half is academic and will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, in the Noble Research Center, Room 106. Eire will present, “When Mystics and Witches Flew: Writing a History of the Impossible."

The second half is a general lecture on Eire’s memoir of childhood and exile during the Cuban Revolution, Waiting for Snow in Havana, which won the 2003 National Book Award in non-fiction. A book signing will follow the lecture. The event will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008, in the Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room, Edmon Low Library.

Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, holds a B.A. from Loyola University, Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Yale.

Eire specializes in popular piety, death, cultural, social, religious and intellectual history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a strong focus on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.

Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 744-7331, or email lib-pub@okstate.edu.

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