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Events and Programs
Spring 2012
Apr 30 • 4:00pm • Room 100B
Dr. Carlos Vargas returns to continue a lively discussion of higher ed based
on Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.
Resource guide ▶
Apr 18 • 3pm - 4pm • Room 100B
Dr. Carlos Vargas moderates a book discussion of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses in a KU Reading Exchange.
Access the e-book (KU login required) ▶
Apr 12 • 11am - 12:30pm • Room 100B
Celebrate National Library Week with acclaimed graphic satirist Dwayne Booth—AKA Mr.
Fish—as he speaks and signs copies of his scorching new book Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People. About Mr. Fish ▶
Apr 11 • Noon - 1pm • Room 100B
Local author, radio host, motivational speaker and community advocate leads a discussion on the relevance of
Frederick Douglass' words to the lives we live
today, in this year's final FDI
Colloquium. About Dr. Williams ▶
April 2012 • Second Floor Gallery
The Molly Maguires, paintings by Coal Region native and KU grad (Magna Cum Laude, Fine Arts
& Communication Design, '11)
Timothy
Betz depicting the travails of 19th century Irish miners in PA.
March 7 • Noon - 1pm • Room 100B
Explore the roots of Frederick Douglass' feminism with Dr. Christine Saidi of the
KU History department. Douglass early on connected the abolitionist movement to the women's suffrage movement. Another Frederick Douglass Institute Colloquium. Add to Calendar ▶
March 6 • 6pm - 7pm • Second Floor Gallery
Sri Lankan photographer Jayaruwan Gunathilake, a KU Chemistry student, hosts a reception for the opening of his month-long exhibit of 27 exceptional prints of scenes from his global travels.
More ▶
February 23, 2012 • 5pm - 6pm • Second Floor Gallery
For more than three decades, Mr. Bacon was the Director of Art Education for the School District of Philadelphia.
Come enjoy free food and drink while spending time in the company of a master. More ▶
Feb 8 • Noon - 1pm • Room 100B
Activist and Alvernia University librarian Marietta Dooley leads a discussion on arming oneself with the knowledge necessary to create a
successful social movement in this Frederick Douglass Institute Colloquium. Add to Calendar ▶
February 2, 2012 • 11am - Noon • Second Floor
Celebrate the new Year of the Dragon with delicious Chinese dumplings (meat and vegan), hands-on calligraphy, Tai Chi, a colorful display and more.
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Feb 1 • 6pm - 8pm • Room 100B
Join us for a screening and discussion of Rise like Lions, the first
full-length film to document the Occupy Wall Street movement; a prelude to KU's
new "Free University" movie series. About the film ▶
Ongoing • Main Floor Lobby
Crimes and injustices that have driven countless Americans to protest are amply documented
by Rohrbach Library books and films that comprise our local "branch" of Zuccotti
Park's original People's Library. More ▶
Fall 2011
Through January 2012 • Second Floor Quiet Area
Discs, memorabilia, and music of the glory days of Philadelphia Soul from the collection of Rohrbach Library Monographs Technician Richard Pugliese, a Philly native.
More ▶
Through December 13, 2011 • 2nd Floor Gallery
Tracey Luscia, Fine Arts major at KU, shows recent paintings and pop-culture
inspired multimedia works in Cheer Up, Frankenstein! Reception:
Dec. 6 (Tuesday), 4pm - 6pm. Poster ▶
November 16, 2011 • Noon - 1pm
• Room 100B
Drs. Linda McMillan and Mary O'Neil of KU's Elementary Education department lead a discussion
of what it means to
be literate in our culture, and how embracing diversity and variety in the perception of literacy leads to a more
democratic and empowered society.
November 10, 2011 • 11am - Noon
• Room 100B
Presentation in German. MLS, LRC, the German Club & Rohrbach Library welcome via Skype Veit Müller,
journalist and mystery author. Müller will discuss his writing background and how he
got involved in Kriminal-romane (crime fiction). Müller has written
four novels.
October 27, 2011 • 7pm - 8:15pm
• Room 100B
The music of Samantha Miller, including songs from Maybe Gray and
her work with Jeremy Parson and Amanda Richardson in Die Marriyeschtanne, a group dedicated to preserving, by performing, secular Pennsylvania German dialect music.
October 19, 2011 • Noon - 1pm
• Room 100B
Dr. Pascale Dewey of the Kutztown University Department of Modern Language Studies shares her research of the French slave trade as
the 2011-12 KU Frederick Douglass Institute Colloquium Series continues.
October 12, 2011 • 4:30pm - 6:30pm
• Second Floor Gallery
Gala reception for Peruvian watercolorist Daniel Egusquiza features food,
drink, great door prizes, and performances by the exciting
Barrio Alegría dance company.
Get to know an artist who 'paints' with his feet as expressively as he does with his brush!
October 5, 2011 • 7pm - 8:30pm
• Room 100B
Get an inside view of the children's book world from author Mara Rockliff, illustrator Amy Wummer, and their editor Juliana Hanford
of Kane Press,
the team behind the popular
The Milo & Jazz Mysteries.
Bring your questions about publishing for kids. More ▶
October 4, 2011 • 4:30pm
• Room 100B
A week ahead of
National Coming Out Day, Kutztown students relate their own coming-out stories
in a reading organized in conjunction with
KU Allies.
Features a display of recent
Stonewall Book Award winners and other notable GLBTQ titles. More ▶
September 24, 2011 • 10am - Noon
• Ground Floor & 1st Floor
Rumpuspalooza! It's a Family Day funfest for kids of
all ages with crafts, stories, films—Sendakian all—and snacks on the library's lower level, plus the In a Nutshell exhibit
and Scholastic Book Fair beside the Main Floor café.
September 21, 2011 • Noon - 1pm
• Room 100B
Dr. James Jackson, Kutztown University Professor of Psychology, inaugurates the 2011-12 KU Frederick Douglass Institute Colloquium Series
with a discussion of Black Fatherhood.
Through September 2011 • Second Floor Quiet Area
Rohrbach Library remembers 9/11 with a set of displays devoted to the horrific day and to the rebuilding of the Ground Zero site.
Includes first-person stories
from readers of the library's blog. Part of KU's Remembrance Day observances.
September 1, 2011 • 7:00pm • Room 100B
Curator of the In a Nutshell exhibit Patrick Rodgers, on Drawing the Other Story: The Cathartic Art of Maurice Sendak. Join the insightful scholar from the Rosenbach Museum for a rousing talk and footage of his interviews with the author. More ▶
August 29 - October 14, 2011 • Main Floor café area
Spring 2011
May 3, 2011 • 2pm - 4pm
• Room 100B
Library Journal 2005 Mover & Shaker and original
Blended Librarian John Shank
on Reengineering the Academic Library for Digital Natives. A free
workshop supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Library Association.
Register to attend
April 8 - 29, 2011
• Main Floor Lab
My Peruvian Experience Prints inspired by Christina Taylor's study trip to Peru meet the hard
sciences in the work of this future art conservator who's as comfortable in
a chemistry lab as she is in an art studio. Reception:
April 14; see below.
April 14, 2011 • 5:30 - 6:30pm • Room 100B and 2nd Floor Gallery
Join painters Alicia Bonilla-Puig and Ekaterina Popova, whose exhibit
All of the Lights adorns the library's Second Floor Gallery
space through April 24, and Christina Taylor for this joint reception for KU student artists.
April 13, 2011 • 4pm - 5pm • Room 100B
A child of the PA Coal Region,
Craig Czury has led an adventurous and
reflective life that pays close attention to the details. The
Berks County
Poet Laureate celebrates National Poetry Month with a rousing reading in the Voices and Choices Center.
April 13, 2011 • Noon - 1pm
• Room 100B
Join Kutztown University Professor of English Dr. Ellesia Blaque
for the final KU Frederick Douglass Institute Discussion Series event of the
year: The Miseducation of Minorities: Overcoming the Odds.
April 12, 2011 • 4pm - 5pm
• Room 100B
KU electrician Robert J. Saniscalchi
has authored several books since
Bullets and Bandages
honored his brother's work as
a Vietnam field medic. In this National Library Week talk he discusses his writing and introduces his novel,
My Life, For Her.
March 23, 2011 • Noon - 1pm
• Room 100B
KU Frederick Douglass Institute Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Pamela Thomas, an expert in working with at-risk
youth, facilitates a
discussion on the qualities needed now for effective leadership in alternative education. FDI Discussion Series.
discussion on the qualities needed now for effective leadership in alternative education. FDI Discussion Series.
March 7 - 18, 2011
• Main Floor Lab
KU Fine Arts major Jacqueline Arbaugh
shows five incisive mixed-media works that pierce the superficiality of modern American vanity in
her exhibit
pretty please.
March 18, 2011 • 5pm - 8:30pm • MSUB Alumni Auditorium
The extraordinary documentary
Library of the Early Mind explores the art and impact of children's literature, featuring nearly 40 authors
including Lois Lowry, Jerry Pinkney, Mo Willems, and Lemony Snicket. A panel
discussion follows the screening.
March 18, 2011 • 11am - Noon • Room 100B
Painter,
hypnotherapist, and author Kanta Bosniak speaks on the use of
icons
as motivational models. Bosniak, whose work is featured in the RL's
Icons exhibit, explores topics of interest to students
of psychology, counseling, and art.
February 24, 2011 • 5pm-7pm • Room 100B and 2nd Floor Gallery
Black History Month Exhibit and Reception.
Artists and educators Ed Terrell and
Sandi Turner of ACOR discuss their work, on display in Rohrbach Library
through the month of February.
February 16, 2011 • 12pm-1pm
Frederick Douglass Institute lecture. Dr.
C. James Trotman, founder of the FDI Collaborative of the PA State System of
Higher Education, speaks on his new biography of Frederick Douglass.
January 27, 2011 • 5pm-7pm
James Weaver: Mennonite Cultures and Community. The audio of Mr. Weaver's
talk, along with details on many relevant library resources, are available in this LibGuide.
Fall 2010
November - December, 2010 • 2nd Floor Gallery
"Panorama Obscura": A Long Painting By Kevin Travers. KU Fine Arts major shows a series of
300 long paintings comprising an iconographic narrative of
a drive in the countryside above Kutztown.
November 11, 2010 • 11am - 2nd Floor
KU professor of Communication Design Kevin McCloskey discusses the life and
work of immortal Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada in his multimedia talk,
"Catrina and Her Children," in front of
the 2nd Floor Day of the Dead exhibit.
October 14 • 11am • 2nd Floor
Every 1 Knows Some 1: KU Students Tell Their Own Coming Out Stories.
Celebrate National Coming Out Day with a
reading and a book display featuring the 2010 Stonewall Award honorees.
Through March 2011 • Library gallery spaces
Icons by Kanta Bosniak. A rotating exhibit of portraits of 60 global
luminaries, with life stories from the library's Biography In Context
database.
October - November, 2010 • Main and 2nd Floors
Rohrbach Library's
Day of the Dead display,
in partnership with Dr. Dawn Slack and the Department of Modern Languages.
For a wealth of related books and resources see the
accompanying LibGuide.
September - October, 2010 • 2nd Floor Gallery
Internationally renowned landscape artist
Oscar Lloveras
brings his vision to Rohrbach Library for a multimedia installation
highlighting his global body of work.
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