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Adam Banks - 2010 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor

Adam J. Banks, an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University, recently gave the Langston Hughes Visiting Professorship lecture, Rememory, Remixed: Reimagining African-American Rhetoric for a Digital Age. Banks is teaching in KUs Department of English for spring 2010. He is the author of the award-winning Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground, published in 2006. A second book, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, is scheduled to be published later this year by Southern Illinois University Press. For more, visit: www.news.ku.edu

Oliver de la Paz reads for the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series (1 of 2)

Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry: Names Above Houses and Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press), and Requiem for the Orchard, a winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize which will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is the co-chair of the advisory board for Kundiman, and he is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Western Washington University.

Ulysses S. Grant Collection Database Tutorial - Mississippi State University Libraries.

The Grant Presidential Collection consists of some 10000 linear feet of correspondence, research notes, artifacts, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia and includes information on Grants childhood from his birth in 1822, his later military career, Civil War triumphs, tenure as commanding general after the war, presidency, and his post-White House years until his death in 1885. There are also 4000 published monographs on various aspects of Grants life and times. From this collection, the series of volumes edited by John Y. Simon, entitled The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant were chosen and published by the Southern Illinois University Press. The publishing project is within 4-5 years of completion. Upon Simons death in 2008, the Ulysses S. Grant Association, which owns the Collection, chose John F. Marszalek as Executive Director and Managing Editor of the remaining publication projects: a supplementary volume and a scholarly edition of the Grant Memoirs. The Association also voted to place the Collection in the Congressional and Political Research Center of the Mississippi State University Libraries.

Sacred Mushroom of Mexico - An Interview with Dr. Brian Akers

Todays guest is Dr. Brian Akers the author of The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico. What were the mushroom traditions of ancient Mexico? Was there just one "mushroom cult"? Or were there diverse practices spread across many cultures? What were some of Gordon Wasson's most important contributions to ethnomycology? What is the importance of the mystic, or transpersonal experience? From mycology to anthropology to mystical experiences, this conversation is an intellectual feast. Dr. Brian Akers earned his Ph.D. in Mycology from Southern Illinois University, specializing in mushrooms, especially the Lepiota group (parasol mushroom and allies), and also possesses a Masters in anthropology and a Bachelors in comparative religion from Western Michigan University. He is the author of "The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico: Assorted Texts" (2007, Univ. Press of America), and a series of journal publications on fungi and ethnomycology. He served a ten year term as biology professor at several colleges and universities including University of Minnesota-Morris. He was born and raised in Detroit and currently resides in the Tampa Bay area. Order The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico: astore.amazon.com Hear the full interview at: gnosticmedia.podomatic.com

Quentin Scott and Derrick Law Postgame Press Conference (Oct 17, 2009)

UNI players meet with media to discuss SIU loss

The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico

Author Jan Irvin's interview with Dr. Brian Akers. Hear this full interview and many more at: www.gnosticmedia.com "What were the mushroom traditions of ancient Mexico? Was there just one "mushroom cult"? Or were there diverse practices spread across many cultures? What were some of Gordon Wasson's most important contributions to ethnomycology? What is the importance of the mystic, or transpersonal experience? From mycology to anthropology to mystical experiences, this conversation is an intellectual feast. Dr. Brian Akers earned his Ph.D. in Mycology from Southern Illinois University, specializing in mushrooms, especially the Lepiota group (parasol mushroom and allies), and also possesses a Masters in anthropology and a Bachelors in comparative religion from Western Michigan University. He is the author of "The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico: Assorted Texts" (2007, Univ. Press of America), and a series of journal publications on fungi and ethnomycology. He served a ten year term as biology professor at several colleges and universities including University of Minnesota-Morris. He was born and raised in Detroit and currently resides in the Tampa Bay area." -Jan Irvin Order TheSacred Mushrooms of Mexico: astore.amazon.com

Charles Johnson - UHV/ABR Reading Series - Part 6

DATE: Thursday 1/28/2010 TIME: Noon to 1:00 pm PLACE: University of Houston-Victoria, Alcorn Auditorium (UW 204) SPEAKER: Charles Johnson, whose balance of philosophy and folklore has been praised since the publication of his first novel in 1974, gained prominence when his novel Middle Passage won the National Book Award in 1990-the first time such an award was given to an African American male since Ralph Ellison in 1953. Like his other works of fiction, Middle Passage embodies Johnson's provocative version of black literature, defined in his Being and Race: Black Writing since 1970 (1998) as a fiction of increasing artistic and intellectual growth, one that enables us as people-as a culture-to move from narrow complaint to broad celebration. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Johnson began his career as a cartoonist. Under the tutelage of cartoonist Lawrence Lariar, he saw his work published by the time he was seventeen years old. His two collections of cartoons were acclaimed for their subtle but pointed satire of race relations, and their success led to Charlie's Pad, a 1971 series on public television that Johnson created, co-produced, and hosted. As an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University, Johnson studied with novelist and literary theorist John Gardner, whose conception of moral fiction-demanding from the author a near-fanatical commitment to technique, imagination, and ethics-deeply impressed Johnson. Johnson's first novel, Faith and the Good Thing, was ...

Charles Johnson - UHV/ABR Reading Series - Part 1

DATE: Thursday 1/28/2010 TIME: Noon to 1:00 pm PLACE: University of Houston-Victoria, Alcorn Auditorium (UW 204) SPEAKER: Charles Johnson, whose balance of philosophy and folklore has been praised since the publication of his first novel in 1974, gained prominence when his novel Middle Passage won the National Book Award in 1990-the first time such an award was given to an African American male since Ralph Ellison in 1953. Like his other works of fiction, Middle Passage embodies Johnson's provocative version of black literature, defined in his Being and Race: Black Writing since 1970 (1998) as a fiction of increasing artistic and intellectual growth, one that enables us as people-as a culture-to move from narrow complaint to broad celebration. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Johnson began his career as a cartoonist. Under the tutelage of cartoonist Lawrence Lariar, he saw his work published by the time he was seventeen years old. His two collections of cartoons were acclaimed for their subtle but pointed satire of race relations, and their success led to Charlie's Pad, a 1971 series on public television that Johnson created, co-produced, and hosted. As an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University, Johnson studied with novelist and literary theorist John Gardner, whose conception of moral fiction-demanding from the author a near-fanatical commitment to technique, imagination, and ethics-deeply impressed Johnson. Johnson's first novel, Faith and the Good Thing, was ...