All Over the Map – Ideas for History papers in HST 110, 111, and 211

Having trouble coming up with a topic for your HST 110, 111, or 211 paper? Check out our book display, created and developed by Le Moyne junior, Nicholle Capria!

The book display is located in the front of the library by the windows and has a variety of possible topics for each course! Alternatively, you can view some of the options by subject area using our online book display at https://resources.library.lemoyne.edu/alloverthemap

Note: All history classes are different, so always make sure to check that your topic follows the guidelines in your specific syllabus!

Artist George Bartko: “Island Portraits: The Men”

Sept. 19 – October 25 Wilson Art Gallery

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 19th, 3:30-5:30pm.

Meet world-renowned Hungarian-born artist George Bartko on September 19th who will discuss his work, which he conceived not as a series of individual, separate records, but as a unified piece with a cumulative effect. 

George Bartko was born in Hungary and now spends half the year on the island of Vinalhaven, off the coast of Maine, and his winters in Budapest, where he keeps an apartment and art studio.

As a teenager he apprenticed for three years to the Hungarian painter Lajos Saabo before coming to the United States in 1956. He earned a BFA in painting and printmaking at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his MFA in painting and printmaking at the University of Florida, Gainsville. He went on to teach painting, drawing and lithography at St. Louis Community College in Missouri.

He says of his intention: “I ask from a viewer an attention span longer than required to identify the contents of a painting. I invite the viewer to explore the way I resolve the delights of appearances.”

Ignacio Asenjo Salcedo: Fossils from the Gutenberg Era

Artist Ignacio Asenjo Salcedo imagines a world several centuries into the future in which paper books are no longer a traditional means of entertaining or sharing information, but relics of a bygone era in world that has become all digital. An art teacher based in Madrid, Asenjo Salcedo uses sculpture to approximate what paper books might look like in their fossilized form in this civilization. Exhibition runs in the Wilson Art Gallery from August 27 – September 13, 2019 and may be viewed any time the Falcone Library is open.

Meet the artist for an opening reception on August 29, 5-7pm in the Wilson Art Gallery in the Falcone Library, followed by a talk by Spanish novelist and columnist Irene Vallejo about the future of the book and reading in the digital age at 7pm in the Writing Center of the library.

Le Moyne Book Club: September 11, 2019

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Come join the Le Moyne College Book Club on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 as we discuss Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. We will be meeting in the Librarians Office Area in the Noreen Reale Falcone Library from 7-8:30 pm. Refreshments will be served!

Please contact Kari Zhe-Heimerman (zheheikm@lemoyne.edu) with any questions. Visit the Le Moyne College Book Club page to see the list of upcoming meetings as well as books we’ve read in the past.

Author Talk: “Those Unique Survivors Called Books”

Irene Vallejo is a Spanish novelist and newspaper columnist whose research focus is the history and books and reading. She has a PhD in ancient literature from the Universities of Saragosse Spain and Florence Italy. She has published novels such as La luz sepultada (Parentesis, 2010) and El silbido del arquero (Contrasena, 2015), as well as a number of short stories, essays, and books for children and young people.

Author Irene Vallejo
Author Irene Vallejo [Photo credit: Santiago Basallo]

Date: August 29, 2019
Location: QRC/Writing Center, Library 1st floor
Time: 7:00pm

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Sponsors: The Central NY Humanities Corridor with an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dean of the Madden School of Business, The Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures.

Off-Campus Login Problem

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please be advised that there is a work-around. Instead of using the “campus computer account method” (UserID and Password), use the “campus ID card” method (Name and ID barcode).

We are working with our proxy server vendor and with campus IT to resolve the issue and hope to have it fixed later this morning.

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A Writer’s Life: Exploring a Literary Career

Author Cindy L. Freeman
Author Cindy L. Freeman

Author talk & book signing

Thursday, July 25, 2019
Library: QRC/Writing Center
2:30-4:00PM

Cindy L. Freeman is retired from a forty-five-year career in music education and performance. Although writing fiction was a lifelong passion, she didn’t become an author until after the age of sixty. In her two latest works, published by High Tide Publications,The Dark Room and I Want to Go Home, she tackles the difficult issues of child abuse and homelessness.

The Dark Room I Want To Go Home

Le Moyne Book Club: June 12, 2019

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Come join the Le Moyne College Book Club on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 as we discuss The Library Book by Susan Orlean. We will be meeting in the Librarians Office Area in the Noreen Reale Falcone Library from 7-8:30 pm. Refreshments will be served!

Please contact Kari Zhe-Heimerman (zheheikm@lemoyne.edu) with any questions. Visit the Le Moyne College Book Club page to see the list of upcoming meetings as well as books we’ve read in the past.