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ProgramsCollege of Liberal Arts Speakers Bureau Connections: Communities, Schools, and the People Who Made Them Discover Auburn Lecture Series Draughon Seminars in State and Local History Alabama Center for the BookThe Alabama Center for the Book (ACFTB) is a partnership of individuals, agencies, and organizations that love and support books and reading in Alabama. It sponsors public programming and disseminates book, literacy, and reading information. ACFTB also highlights Alabama's literary culture and heritage and, as an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, promotes national initiatives on books and reading. Among its programs are the Letters About Literature writing contest; River of Words art and poetry contest; Get Caught Reading, an award-winning reading promotion project; This Goodly Land, an online literary map of Alabama; and the Alabama Book Festival, an event that brings authors and the public together. For more information on the ACFTB and its partners, go to www.alabamabookcenter.org Alabama Issues ForumsIn cooperation with the David Mathews Center for the Civic Life and a number of local partners, CMD CAH coordinates deliberative forums in communities around the state. Deliberative forums offer the public an opportunity to discuss significant issues of concern in a non-threatening and non-divisive environment. Forums foster dialogue among citizens-not debate-and lead to an informed and engaged public demonstrating civic responsibility. Alabama VoicesNow in its thirteenth year, Alabama Voices brings writers to communities for workshops, readings, and other community writing/reading events. Funded by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Alabama Voices offers 10 to 20 programs annually, focusing on under-resourced communities. To book a program or for more information, please call 334.844.4946. College of Liberal Arts Speakers BureauThe CLA Speakers Bureau is a highly visible and competitive annual College of Liberal Arts speakers program that showcases college scholarship in venues both on and off campus. Each year the speakers program features a particular issue or theme. This year’s focus is government, citizenship, and politics. Programs by the CLA Speaker’s Bureau can be booked by contacting Maiben Beard at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at maiben.beard@auburn.edu. The programs are offered free of charge on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Connections: Communities, Schools, and the People Who Made ThemConnections studies the relationship among schools, education, and communities. Using local history and personal memory to explore how and why communities established and supported their schools, Connections asks whether highlighting a history of community action and commitment can bring fresh energy to local education today. Supported by the Kettering Foundation of Ohio, the Center and the Truman Pierce Institute in the AU College of Education jointly conduct this program in selected communities. For more information, please call 334.844.4948. Discover Auburn Lecture SeriesThis year-long series features programs on AU research, history, and other topics of interest. The series is co-sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and the Auburn University Bookstore. Lectures are held in the Special Collections Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library. See events page for lecture dates and speakers. Draughon Seminars in State and Local HistoryThis annual Center offering brings new research in Alabama history to public audiences throughout the state. The seminars are funded by the Kelly Mosley Endowment in honor of Dr. Ralph B. Draughon, AU president from 1947 to 1965, and he was a historian with a deep commitment to both state history and public education. The 2008-2009 Draughon scholar will be announced in the fall. Life of the MindLife of the Mind is the center’s new signature event to emphasize the importance of the humanities in the development of the Auburn students’ experiences and life-long exploration of perennial questions in humanistic inquiry. The annual program will broadly highlight facets of a liberal arts education that are infused in disciplines across the University spectrum in order to facilitate students’ capacity to grapple with and engage issues of thoughtful, useful, and responsible citizenship. The program seeks to enlist faculty, student, and community interest from a wide array of areas of interest to examine an ever evolving set of questions from a number of different perspectives. In the spring semester, Life of the Mind will feature an all-university teach-in that will tackle the questions of Darwinism and evolution from a multitude of perspectives.
New Perspectives: Alabama ArtAlabama’s rich visual arts heritage is the focus of this annual lecture series offered in Auburn and around the state. Topics include public art, architecture, decorated domestic landscapes, photography, and environmental art. "New Perspectives" has major funding from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, and is supported by community partners in each of its locations. See events page or call 334.844.4946 for more information. Pebble Hill BooksPebble Hill Books is a cooperative publishing venture of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and the University of Alabama Press. Designed to publish works that grow out of or contribute to the Center’s programming, Pebble Hill Books preserves and disseminates scholarship and creative works by Auburn University College of Liberal Arts faculty and by Center associates. The inaugural title, In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Gulf Coast by Frye Gaillard, was published in 2008. Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation, a collection of papers delivered at the Albert Murray Symposium in January 2008 and edited by Dr. Barbara Baker, will be published in 2009. Paul Hemphill’s A Tiger Walk Through History: A Compete History of Auburn Football from 1892 to the Tuberville Era also appears under the Pebble Hill Books imprint.
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