A Grand Tour of Italy with Dr. Michael Seaman
**PLEASE REGISTER HERE**
Join us this fall for a series of talks given by Dr. Michael Seaman, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Italian Studies at DePauw University.
This lecture series will be a Grand Tour of the history, art, and architecture of Italy. It will be loosely modeled on the Grand Tour of Italy undertaken by British aristocrats in the 17th and 18th centuries when young British gentry traveled to Italy in search of the foundations of Western Civilization, observing up close the history, art, and culture of the Bel Paese (the “Beautiful Country”). In Part 1 of this 12-part series, we will focus our attention on the two northern Italian cities most famous for their history and art, Venice to Florence. The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, October 25th – An Introduction to the Grand Tour of Italy
Tuesday, November 1st – The History of Venice, la Serenissima
Tuesday, November 8th – Medieval Art and Architecture of Venice
Thursday, November 17th – Renaissance Art and Architecture of Venice (note: this week we meet on Thursday)
Tuesday, November 22nd – The History of Florence
Tuesday, November 22nd – Early Renaissance Art of Florence
Optional background reading will be made available. Dr. Seaman earned his graduate degrees in ancient history at UCLA. He and his wife, Francesca, have been teaching at DePauw for 18 years and have taken hundreds of DePauw students and alumni with them on tours of Italy.
Please join us for any or all of these 90-minute talks. Lectures will begin at 6:00 PM in the library’s Kiwanis Room, located on the first floor, and will be followed afterward by an optional 30-minute Q & A with Dr. Seaman. Space is limited so register early. A virtual tour of Italy that highlights many of the country’s most celebrated artistic treasures, is the next best thing to touring Italy in person.
**PLEASE REGISTER HERE**
…A Grand Tour of Italy with Dr. Michael Seaman
**PLEASE REGISTER HERE**
Join us this fall for a series of talks given by Dr. Michael Seaman, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Italian Studies at DePauw University.
This lecture series will be a Grand Tour of the history, art, and architecture of Italy. It will be loosely modeled on the Grand Tour of Italy undertaken by British aristocrats in the 17th and 18th centuries when young British gentry traveled to Italy in search of the foundations of Western Civilization, observing up close the history, art, and culture of the Bel Paese (the “Beautiful Country”). In Part 1 of this 12-part series, we will focus our attention on the two northern Italian cities most famous for their history and art, Venice to Florence. The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, October 25th – An Introduction to the Grand Tour of Italy
Tuesday, November 1st – The History of Venice, la Serenissima
Tuesday, November 8th – Medieval Art and Architecture of Venice
Thursday, November 17th – Renaissance Art and Architecture of Venice (note: this week we meet on Thursday)
Tuesday, November 22nd – The History of Florence
Tuesday, November 22nd – Early Renaissance Art of Florence
Optional background reading will be made available. Dr. Seaman earned his graduate degrees in ancient history at UCLA. He and his wife, Francesca, have been teaching at DePauw for 18 years and have taken hundreds of DePauw students and alumni with them on tours of Italy.
Please join us for any or all of these 90-minute talks. Lectures will begin at 6:00 PM in the library’s Kiwanis Room, located on the first floor, and will be followed afterward by an optional 30-minute Q & A with Dr. Seaman. Space is limited so register early. A virtual tour of Italy that highlights many of the country’s most celebrated artistic treasures, is the next best thing to touring Italy in person.
**PLEASE REGISTER HERE**
…Community Pitch-In: Intentional Food
Are you the type of person who wants to try new recipes? Do you plan some meals with meticulous care? Choosing local ingredients? Do you choose a specific diet for any reason, such as gluten-free, dairy-free, or meat-free?
We have the perfect event for you!
We are hosting an Intentional Food Pitch-In! Intentional eating has become a very popular idea in recent years. Many are trying vegan diets and gluten free diets as a way to mindfully eat food that really helps their body feel good. We want to celebrate that with you!
In the past, our pitch-ins have been vegan and vegetarian-focused. While we hope for many of those dishes to return, we’d like to include other intentional foods. We look forward to trying locally-sourced meats, organic-only ingredients, or even specialty ingredients. If you have spent the pandemic creating a special sourdough starter to make bread, this is the place to show it off!
Join the community for an Intentional Potluck on the Second Thursday of every month from May through October! Dinner starts at 6 p.m. sharp with a half-hour after reserved for clean-up. Can’t bring a dish? No worries! Grab a plate and help with the after-dinner clean-up. …
Community Pitch-In: Intentional Food
Are you the type of person who wants to try new recipes? Do you plan some meals with meticulous care? Choosing local ingredients? Do you choose a specific diet for any reason, such as gluten-free, dairy-free, or meat-free?
We have the perfect event for you!
We are hosting an Intentional Food Pitch-In! Intentional eating has become a very popular idea in recent years. Many are trying vegan diets and gluten free diets as a way to mindfully eat food that really helps their body feel good. We want to celebrate that with you!
In the past, our pitch-ins have been vegan and vegetarian-focused. While we hope for many of those dishes to return, we’d like to include other intentional foods. We look forward to trying locally-sourced meats, organic-only ingredients, or even specialty ingredients. If you have spent the pandemic creating a special sourdough starter to make bread, this is the place to show it off!
Join the community for an Intentional Potluck on the Second Thursday of every month from May through October! Dinner starts at 6 p.m. sharp with a half-hour after reserved for clean-up. Can’t bring a dish? No worries! Grab a plate and help with the after-dinner clean-up. …
Community Pitch-In: Intentional Food
Are you the type of person who wants to try new recipes? Do you plan some meals with meticulous care? Choosing local ingredients? Do you choose a specific diet for any reason, such as gluten-free, dairy-free, or meat-free?
We have the perfect event for you!
We are hosting an Intentional Food Pitch-In! Intentional eating has become a very popular idea in recent years. Many are trying vegan diets and gluten free diets as a way to mindfully eat food that really helps their body feel good. We want to celebrate that with you!
In the past, our pitch-ins have been vegan and vegetarian-focused. While we hope for many of those dishes to return, we’d like to include other intentional foods. We look forward to trying locally-sourced meats, organic-only ingredients, or even specialty ingredients. If you have spent the pandemic creating a special sourdough starter to make bread, this is the place to show it off!
Join the community for an Intentional Potluck on the Second Thursday of every month from May through October! Dinner starts at 6 p.m. sharp with a half-hour after reserved for clean-up. Can’t bring a dish? No worries! Grab a plate and help with the after-dinner clean-up. …
Indie Author Day: November 7, 2020
On November 7, 2020, the Putnam County Public Library will host the 5th annual Indie Author Day. Join us for the talk “Eye for the Weird” by Author Sarah Gerkensmeyer.
Eye for the Weird
How can the strange, the uncanny, and the unordinary help give us more direct access to our characters’ ordinary, human experiences? This presentation, which incorporates a series of interconnected writing exercises, will explore how some “weird” writers like myself work with a careful balance of the ordinary and the unordinary, the real and the surreal, in their fiction. We will look at overt examples of weird writing, such as magical realism, fabulism, and fairy tales. And we will also explore more subtle approaches, such as conducting creative research about unknown topics and discovering a sense of mystery about topics that you are already familiar with. Participants should be both inspired and challenged to discover how injecting a sense of the unknown and the off-kilter—whether to a large degree or only in small doses—might open up the characters in their own writing. I will also share about how growing up in the Midwest helped shape how I view the “weird” in both the landscape that surrounds me and in my own writing.
For more information:
Indie Author Day
Writer Workshop Videos
Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s story collection, What You Are Now Enjoying, was selected by Stewart O’Nan as winner of the 2012 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and chosen as winner of Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee for both fiction and poetry and a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and the Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction, Sarah has received scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ragdale, Grub Street, SAFTA’s Firefly Farms, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her stories and poetry have appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, The New Guard, The Massachusetts Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, B O D Y, Hobart, and Cream City Review, among others. Her story “Ramona” was featured in a Huffington Post piece on flash fiction and also selected by Lily Hoang for the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology. Sarah was the 2012-13 Pen Parentis Fellow. She received her MFA in fiction from Cornell University and now lives and writes in her home state of Indiana, where she is a winner of the Indiana Authors Award and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellow.
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Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday: Closed