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A Conversation with Alan Dean Foster (Podcast)

October 2, 2012 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

A Conversation with Author Alan Dean Foster

To celebrate the opening of the new Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University and the ASU Libraries’ exhibit End of the Golden Age: Science Fiction Before and After the Atomic Bomb , Fred McIlvain and Assistant Professor Ed Finn, director of the Center, interview author Alan Dean Foster about his career in Science Fiction, film novelizations, and his world travels.

 
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Alan and Ed talk about meeting John W. Campbell, how science fiction authors actually predicted the coming of the atomic bomb, and sci-fi as social commentary. Alan then opens up about his experiences working in Hollywood, meeting famous directors and turning movie scripts such Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek, and Transformers into novels. Did you know Alan talked about Warner Brothers Cartoons with singer Alice Cooper while waiting to see Star Wars…before anyone else had seen it.

Other topics include Alan’s current projects, the Alan Dean Foster Papers at the ASU Libraries, Alan’s scrapbooks, radio scripts, and the preservation of media.

Recorded September 12, 2012

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Edward Finn, Alan Dean Foster

A Conversation With Dr. Cathleen Cahill, Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Recipient (Video)

June 6, 2012 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

Arizona State University Libraries presents the 4th Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award winner Dr. Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico.  Dr. Cahill was honored for her 2011 book Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 (University of North Carolina Press)

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Introduction by Joyce Martin Curator, Labriola American Indian Data Center
American Indian Studies Assistant Professor Dr. David Martinez interviews Dr. Cahill

(Recorded April 16, 2012)

The Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award encourages scholarship which crosses multiple disciplines or fields of study, is relevant to contemporary North American Indian communities, and focuses on modern tribal studies, modern biographies, tribal governments or federal Indian policy. The judging panel is comprised of Dr. Donald Fixico and Dr. Katherine Osburn from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and Dr. David Martinez from American Indian Studies. Each year the winner of the book award is invited to the Labriola Center for an award presentation and to speak about his or her book.

An Evening with Leslie Marmon Silko (podcast)

December 14, 2009 · All locations, Architecture Library, Downtown Phoenix campus, Hayden Library, Music Library, Noble Library, podcasts, Polytechnic campus, West campus · Comments Off

Internationally acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo, deliveres the fall Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, at Phoenix’s Heard Museum. This semi-annual lecture series is held through a partnership between the Heard Museum and Arizona State University.

Silko delivers a relaxed, informal presentation as she reads from her forthcoming memoir, Turquoise Ledge.

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Silko has won prizes, fellowships, and grants from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts and The Boston Globe. She was the youngest writer to be included in The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature for her short story “Lullaby.” In 1981 she won a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. Silko has continued to be a force in American Indian literature in both the fiction and non-fiction genres.

The lecture series is sponsored by the Heard Museum and Arizona State University’s American Indian Studies Program, Department of English,

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Introduction:
Fred McIlvain (Library Channel)
Frank Goodyear (Heard Museum)
Simon Ortiz (ASU)

Speaker:
Leslie Marmon Silko

Episode 102
Running time: 51:44

ASU Libraries Hosts Book Discussion Series in Fall

June 23, 2008 · Tempe campus · Comments Off
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ASU Libraries will host a free five-part reading and discussion series called “Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature – Identity and Imagination.” The series explores Jewish literature and culture through scholar-led discussions of contemporary and classic books on a common theme. The series will explore the theme of Neighbors: The World Next Door. The library is one of over 250 libraries nationwide receiving grants to host the series developed by Nextbook and the American Library Association (ALA). Local support for the series is provided by the Jewish Studies Program at ASU, Hillel at ASU, The Newman Center at ASU, The ASU Department of English, and The Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix. The first program will explore Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B Yehoshua and will be held on Tuesday, August 26 at 7:00 PM. All programs will be held at Hayden Library on the Tempe campus. For details or to register, please visit lib.asu.edu/events/ or contact Rachel Leket-Mor, 480-965-2618, rachel.leket-mor@asu.edu.Additional books will be discussed once per month at the library. These books are Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry (September 23), Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant (October 28), Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land (November 18), and Jan T. Gross’ Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (December 9).
Associate professor Joe Lockard from the ASU Department of English will lead a discussion of the book at each session. Lockard teaches comparative ethnic literatures and has published on Jewish literature and representations of Jews. His latest book is Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports (Peter Lang, 2008) and he directs the Antislavery Literature Project.