Category: CLP

  • A Gathering of Laureates (CLP)

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    A GATHERING OF LAUREATES (CLP) Hartness Pavilion Thursday, April 21, 4:00 PM  This event will be a joint poetry reading and discussion by South Carolina’s three appointed Poets Laureate: SC Laureate Marjory Wentworth, who has held her office since 2003; Laurel Blossom, the Poet Laureate (since 2014) of Edgefield, SC; and Ed Madden, the recently-appointed…

  • Veterans Day Observance

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    eyoung

    This years marks the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Ia Drang, the first major land battle in the Vietnam War.  One of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War, the 14–16 November 1965 battle in the Ia Drang Valley in South Vietnam’s central highlands between the U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and the…

  • CLP: Agony of Vietnam

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    eyoung

    Please join us for a talk and discussion with two Vietnam combat veterans and authors on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the Furman University Trone Student Center, Watkins Room. J. L. Bud Alley, Furman class of 1964 and Jim Lawrence, a 1963 graduate of the Citadel, will discuss their books and experiences during the…

  • CLP: Poetry Reading

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    To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, the Library’s Special Collections and Archives and the English Department will co-sponsor South Carolina poet and internationally celebrated performer, Kurtis Lamkin. He will recite his poetry while accompanying himself on the kora, a twenty-one-stringed West African harp-lute. Kurtis Lamkin is a contemporary American embodiment of the ancient West…

  • CLP: Byron Hurt TONIGHT

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    eyoung

    Filmography  Byron Hurt, award-winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti-sexist activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. In addition, Hurt has also written, directed, and produced Soul Food Junkies, a journey into the culture of Southern soul food while studying the potential problems…

  • Byron Hurt CLP Postponed

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  • CLP: Byron Hurt 2/26

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    eyoung

  • Chinese Environmental Film Festival

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    eyoung

    Thursday, February 26: Narrating Environmental Challenges Film Screening at 7 pm in Burgiss Theater, Opening Night Reception to Follow (CLP) Opening remarks by Katherine Palmer Kaup and Harry Kuoshu (Furman University) The Other Half (YING Liang, 2006, 111 min.), with commentary by Harry Kuoshu (Furman University) http://dgeneratefilms.com/catalog/the-other-half-ling-yi-ban In this feature film, Xiaofen (Zeng Xiaofei) spends…

  • CLP: Byron Hurt – 2/26

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    eyoung

  • CLP: Master Storyteller

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    eyoung