Library Events Include Lectures, Literature, and Invaders from Mars!
This October the Harold B Lee library offers lectures and films dealing with a wide range of subjects. The highly regarded House of Learning Lecture Series features lectures on current topics delivered by the university’s top faculty. A new series of lectures organized by Mark Grover will look at the LDS Church in Latin America. And a documentary film series will show many of the best documentaries to be released in recent years. For more information visit the library’s events page at http://www.lib.byu.edu/exhibits.php.
House of Learning Lectures, Fall 2008
*All House of Learning Lectures will be held on Thursdays at 2:00pm in the HBLL Auditorium.
• Thursday, 2 October — “Spiritualized Recreation: Church Ball and Dance Festivals, 1908-1971”, Jesse Embry (Charles Redd Center for Western Studies)
• Thursday, 9 October — “Elder A Theodore Tuttle and LDS Church Growth in South America”, Dr Mark Grover (Latin American Areas Studies Librarian)
• Thursday, 23 October — “Case Studies in Genetics – Adventures in Science”, Professor Peter Jeff Maughan (Department of Plant and Animal Sciences)
• Thursday, 20 November — “Into The Enchanted Forest: A 2000-Year Retrospective of the German Woods”, Dr Richard Hacken (European Studies Librarian)
The LDS Church in Latin America
• Thursday, 9 October — “Elder A Theodore Tuttle and LDS Church Growth in South America”, Dr Mark Grover (Latin American Areas Studies Librarian)
• Wednesday, 15 October — “Sources for the Study of the Church in Latin America”, by Michael Landon, an Archivist at the LDS Historical Archives in Salt Lake City.
Thomas L Kane Exhibition Lecture Series
• Wednesday, 8 October — Richard Bennett, “Thomas L Kane and the Mormons at the Missouri, 1847-1852. 3:00 pm in the library auditorium.
English Reading Series, Fall 2008
*All English Reading Series Lectures will be held at 12:00pm in the HBLL Auditorium.
• Friday, 3 October — William A. Wilson, Doug Thayer, Steven Walker (essays from The Reader’s Book of Mormon)
• Friday, 10 October — Robert Wrigley
• Friday, 17 October — Chris Bigelow
• Friday, 24 October — Idris Anderson
• Friday, 31 October — CONTEST: Your best Halloween story, essay, or poem
• Friday, 7 November — Ian Frazier
• Friday, 14 November — Paul Rawlins
• Friday, 21 November — Graduate Students
Documentary Cinema Film Series, Fall 2008
*All film screenings will be held at 5:00pm in the HBLL Auditorium.
• Tuesday, 14 October — Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes, Jennifer Baichwal, 2006
• Tuesday, 28 October — Note By Note, Ben Niles, 2007
• Tuesday, 11 November — The End of Suburbia, Gregory Greene, 2004
• Tuesday, 2 December — Helvetica, Gary Hustwit, 2007
BYU Motion Picture Archive Film Series, Fall 2008
*All film screenings will be held at 7:00pm in the HBLL Auditorium.
• Friday, 14 October — The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1936
• Friday, 24 October — Invaders from Mars!, 1953