Literary Events - Talks - Debates - Book Launch

Tabetha Henderson was born and raised in Jeannette Pa, she recently published her first book with Trilogy Christian Publishers A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Trinity Broadcasting Network. Tabetha Henderson will be signing copies of her debut book based on her lifelong journey ..

Come meet authors and artist from across the country as we celebrate all things wordy. FREE GIFT BAG for the first 50 shoppers. Enter to win our gift basket door prize And fall in love with books again! Category: Arts | Books and Literature ..

The Greenfield Summer Institute is an adult summer institute that showcases the research of UW–Madison faculty and acclaimed Jewish studies scholars from around the country. The Institute has been running since 2000, with each year's lectures being centered around a unique t ..

Join Iowa's biggest book expo, brought to you by Des Moines Best Nonprofit of 2019, as we celebrate the heros and villains within our pages. Admission is always FREE Get FREE GOODY BAG full of heroic treats. Kids get free coloring pages and crayons to take Find a reason ..

The headliner for the 2021 Kansas Book Festival is Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Nezhukumatathil’s winsome collection of nature essays includes stories from time spent as a child in Larned, K ..

The idea of 29th LISBON-PORTUGAL International Conference on “Literature, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences” (L2HES2-21) scheduled on July 5-7, 2021 at Lisbon (Portugal) is for the researchers, academicians, managers, social scientists, scholars, engineers and parcti ..

Author and activist Bernadette Russell reveals how hope can be nurtured by all of us, even in uncertain times. --------------------- Whether we're grieving or afraid, worn down by everyday troubles or relentless bad news, there is always hope. As an expert on the multi ..

Jackie Higgins reveals how humans sense and make sense of the world, and the untold scientific revolution stirring in the field of our perception through the senses of animals. The harlequin mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls but, more im ..

Human twins have many meanings and different histories. In this online talk, William Viney - himself a twin - shows how the use and abuse of twins has helped to shape the world in which we live. ---------------------------- ** This is an ONLINE only event. Please regis ..

The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. Journalist Eric Berkowitz reveals why and how humanity has, from the beginning, sought to silence itself. ---------------------- ** This is an ONLINE only event. Please register for an online ticket here: https://conw ..

The (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022 GENERAL INFORMATION • The GLOCAL CALA 2022(SCOPUS / ISI indexed) is the annual GLOCAL conference and set of workshops and lectures on the Linguistic Anthropology, The Sociolinguistics, and the ..

MONTHLY SPOKEN WORD SESSIONS INCOMING!! Thu Jun 10 - Word Of Mouth (Live), telling stories through the lens of London's leading spoken word artists. Integrating live performances with online videos to tell a collective story about British culture, free entry at The CLF A ..

The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County presents a community book discussion on Dan Rather’s bestselling memoir/essay collection, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism. Rather’s topics are wide-ranging, and his ruminations on what it means to be an American in ..

On Tuesday, June 8 the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County hosts Ohio author Mindy McGinnis at Kiwanis Pavilion in Ariel Foundation Park. Mindy McGinnis is “an Edgar-Award-winning novelist novelist who writes across multiple genres, including post-apocalyptic, ..

The April 2021 riots in Northern Ireland were a reminder that peace there is fragile. Feargal Cochrane considers the region’s troubled history from the struggle for Irish independence to the present. ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of ..

Featured Authors are George Gee "Flutters from Side Street", Jim Gottstein "Zyprexa Papers", Doug Pope "The Way to Gaamaak Cove" and Tom Layou "Hookers, Blow and Existentialism". Books will be available for purchase and signing by all the authors. Category: Arts | Books ..

Join us for this month's installment of "What Are You Reading? with the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County" with guest Leeman Kessler discussing The Knife Man by Wendy Moore. Monday, May 31 at 4:00 PM on Facebook. Category: Community | Libraries ..

Come meet authors and artist from across the country as we celebrate all things wordy. FREE GIFT BAG for the first 50 shoppers. Enter to win our gift basket door prize And fall in love with books again! Category: Arts | Books & Literature ..

John presents a talk about his book, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe, a ground-breaking work that reveals the real story of Captain John Voss, the Tilikum, and, setting out from Victoria, B.C., Voss's remarkable attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1901. It is an enduri ..

Sustainability expert Jennie Romer speaks about her new book Can I Recycle This? This talk will take place on the occasion of CAAN’s 2021 Annual Meeting, which will be a virtual event. This program is free and open to the general public. Registration is available at www.clea ..