Category: CLP

  • National Poetry Month – CLP

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    Heaven and Earth: A National Poetry Day Celebration  With 2013 South Carolina Poetry Archives Book Prize Winners Phebe Davidson and Quitman Marshall  April 15 Pitts Room, James B. Duke Library  4:00-5:00p.m. Reception immediately following the reading CLP We hope you will attend!

  • CLP: “Values of the Game”

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    Be sure to mark your calendars for “Values of the Game,” a Special Collections and Archives CLP event on February 26 at 4:30pm in the Pitts Room, second floor of the James B. Duke Library!  We are excited to host well-known Furman professor and chair of the Health Sciences department , Dr. Bill Pierce, as he…

  • Eleventh Hour – CLP April 17

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    The Eleventh Hour:  Readings for National Poetry Month April 17, 2013 @ 4:30 pm James B. Duke Library, Pitts Room CLP To acknowledge National Poetry Month in April, four well-respected and widely-published poets will each read a brief selection from his/her submission for the 2012 South Carolina Poetry Archives Book Prize.  The poets represented are…

  • CLP Photos

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    eyoung

    Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday’s CLP, Value Added: Objects for Sale and Saving.  And an extra-big thanks to Scott and Helen for their informative and engaging presentations!      

  • CLP: Value Added

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    Value Added:  Objects for Sale and Saving March 20, 2013 4:30 pm James B. Duke Library, Pitts Room CLP An auctioneer and a curator discuss the concept of value on March 20, 2013 at 4:30 pm in the Pitts Room of the James B. Duke Library.  Scott Derrick, a Furman employee and certified auctioneer, will…

  • CLPs for Bibliophiles

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    Medieval manuscript scholar, James Marrow, will be visiting Furman for two CLP lectures. Marrow is a scholar of international reputation, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Princeton University and Honorary Keeper of Illuminated Manuscripts at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, UK.  He will be giving two talks on the redesign of manuscripts in the Middle Ages.…

  • CLP-Islam, Sharia & Democracy

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    Islam, Sharia, and Democracy Thursday, November 1 7 pm, Daniel Chapel Come hear Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, from Sudan, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law speak on Islam and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives. See what books by Dr. An-Na’im are in the library, and come browse our World Religions Symposium…

  • CLP: Why Are You Here?

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    Why Are You Here? Religious Studies, the Bible, and the Purpose of Liberal Arts Education a short lecture by Dr. Bryan Bibb (Religion Department) August 30, 2012 4:00 pm McEachern Lecture Room (Furman Hall 214) CLP Event with Reception Following, an Annual Event of the Francis Bonner American Scholar Lecture Series, a New Tradition of Phi…

  • Furman’s Art Mystery

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     Several weeks ago, international art historian Hugh Belsey visited Furman to examine a painting in White Oaks and give a CLP guest lecture.  In case you missed the lecture, you can watch it now from the Decorative & Fine Arts Committee’s website:  http://library.furman.edu/dfac/Gainsborough_lecture.php It was a wonderful lecture with an exciting conclusion for Furman!

  • I’m Sorry for the dead…

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    The  English Department and the Furman University Libraries are joining to present: “I’m Sorry for the dead…” Emily Dickinson’s Civil War Poetry April 12, 2012  – 4pm Pitts Room, Duke Library, 2nd Floor CLP As the country celebrates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War (1861-1865) and National Poetry Month, this lecture will introduce students to the…