March 18, 2025
Maggie Thrash, Graphic Novelist
Art Finds a Way: The Evolution of Comics
February 24, 2025
Dr. Robin R. Bates, Professor Emeritus of English
Speculation, Jane Austen's Favorite Card Game
January 17, 2025
Celebration of Faculty Publications and Faculty-Student Research
Co-sponsored by Sewanee Undergraduate Research and Library and Information Technology Services.
November 20, 2024
Seventh Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Mandi Johnson, Alison J. Miller, and Woody Register
Archival Alleys and Allies: Applying Archives and Special Collections to the Liberal Arts
October 15, 2024
Bessie Gantt, C'98 and Dudley Delffs
Haunted by Success: The Life of a Ghostwriter
Co-sponsored by the English Department and Library and Information Technology Services
June 19, 2024
Nickole Brown and Lindsey Harding
Readings from School of Letters Faculty
Co-Sponsored with the School of Letters
March 25, 2024
Dr. Juilee Decker, Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology
Unveiling the Past: Advancing Knowledge of the Humanities and Special Collections through Multispectral Imaging
March 4, 2024
Hannah Matis, School of Theology
Emmitt Riley, College
Justin Taylor, School of Letters
Celebrating Faculty Publications
February 5, 2024
Dr. Robin R. Bates, Professor Emeritus of English
Cards and the Battle of the Sexes i 18th Century London
November 13, 2023
Sixth Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Geoffrey Ward. University Organist and Choirmaster
The University Choir: Building Community through Choral Music
October 20, 2023
Faculty Publications and Faculty-Student Research
Vice-Chancellor Installation Week
October 2, 2023
Stephanie McCarter and Rachel Reynolds
Translations: Ancient and Modern
June 21, 2023
Ryan Chapman and Meera Subramanian
Readings from School of Letters Faculty
Co-Sponsored with the School of Letters
April 12, 2023
Lauryl Tucker, Matthew Mitchell, The Rev. Rob MacSwain
Celebrating Faculty Publications
April 3, 2023
Edible Books Festival
February 9, 2023
Dr. Robin R. Bates, Professor Emeritus of English
The Significance of Card Playing in Jane Austen
November 2, 2022
Fifth Annual Tom Watson Memorial Event
David Payne and Gregory Williams Welsch
An Evening with Lewis & Tolkien
September 21, 2022
Dr. David Haskell, Professor of Biology
Sounds Wild and Broken
June 29, 2022
Jamie Quatro, Nickole Brown, Allen Reddick
Readings from School of Letters Faculty
Co-sponsored by the School of Letters
(Friends of the Library did not have any programs from March 2020 - June 2022)
February 5, 2020
Collin Cornell, Melody Lehn, Shana Minkin, Jennifer Michael, Sean O'Rourke, Greg Pond
Celebrating Faculty Publications
November 13, 2019
Fourth Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Dr. John Grammer, Professor of English
Why Study the South? Southern Studies in the 21st Century
September 16, 2019
Dr. Bil Bass, Founder of the UTK Body Farm
Case Studies from the Body Farm
June 12, 2019
Meera Subramanian, Author
Reading and Conversation - A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis
Co-sponsored by the School of Letters
May 1, 2019
Rob Bachman, Julia Gatta, Pradip Malde, Stephanie McCarter, Amy Patterson
Celebrating Faculty Publications
April 1, 2019
Edible Books Festival
January 30, 2019
Sewanee Review Staff
The Sewanee Review and the Future of Literary Magazines
November 1, 2018
Third Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Dr. Beth Rushing, President of the Appalachian College Association
Transformative Collaboration: the Appalachian College Association and the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia
October 2, 2018
David B. Coe, Author
Imagination as Mirror: What Speculative Fiction Can Teach Us About Our World
June 13, 2018
Maha Jafri, Professor of English
Reading for Pleasure, Reading for Spite: Gossip and Victorian Literature
Co-Sponsored with the School of Letters
April 18, 2018
W. Brown Patterson, William Engel,
Susan Ridyard, J. Ross MacDonald
The Art of Memory and the New History in Early Modern England
February 13, 2018
Andrew Hudgins
Andrew Hudgins Reads and Discusses His Poems
November 7, 2017
Second Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Rev. Dr. Robert MacSwain
Rational and Imaginative Persuasion: The Ambiguous Achievement of C.S. Lewis
October 3, 2017
Steve Suitts
Justice Hugo Black as a Young Southern Advocate for Social Justice
September 21, 2017
Vicki Sells, Associate Provost for LITS
The New Learning Commons
July 5, 2017
Alana Levinson-LaBrosse
Translations of Kurdish Poetry
Co-sponsored with the School of Letters
February 21, 2017
Erin McGraw, Fiction Author
Storytelling: It's not what you think it is
November 30, 2016
Bob Benson, Professor Emeritus of English
Wedding the Wild Particular
September 21, 2016
First Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Chris Nugent, Director of Warren Wilson College Library
Remembering, Reflecting, Reckoning: German Women and the Long Shadow of National Socialism
June 8, 2016
Ed Tarkington
Author of Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Co-sponsored with School of Letters
March 31, 2016
Matt Reynolds, Associate Director of Archives and Special Collections
Making Space: Cartographic Selections from University Archives and Special Collections
February 15, 2016
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Author
Boys to Men and Back Again
November 13, 2015
Dr. Jerry Smith, Professor of Religion
Excavation of Rebels' Rest
February 27, 2015
The Perkins Symposium: William Perkins and Elizabethan England
Dr. Brown Patterson, Dr. Benjamin King, Dr. Ross McDonald, Dr. Jim Turrell
February 3, 2015
Dr. Pat Kelley, Professor Emeritus, Religion
A Modest Proposal on Bonhoeffer and Biography
December 4, 2014
DebbieLee Landi, Director of University Archives and Special Collections
Special Collections: For the Love of Books
October 17, 2014
Dr. Samuel R. Williamson, 14th Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South and Professor of History Emeritus
The Start of the First World War: What Happened and Why It Still Matters
Co-Sponsored with Finding Your Place
September 4, 2014
Jeanne Marie Warzeski, Curator of the North Carolina Museum of History
Windows into Heaven: Russian Iconography
June 18, 2014
David Mickics, Critic
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
April 24, 2014
Dr. William S. Stoney, C'52, Cardiac Surgeon
Medical Schools Through the Years
January 30, 2014
Dr. Martin Knoll, Professor in Forestry and Geology
Sewanee's Baltic Amber Insect Collection
November 4, 2013
Minton Sparks, Poet, performance artist, novelist, teacher, and essayist
Southern Storytelling
October 3, 2013
Rachel Hildebrandt, Guest Curator
Home Front, War Front: Sewanee and Ft. Oglethorpe in World War I
September 8, 2013
Sarah C. Sherwood and Jan F. Simek
The Sky Above, the Mud Below: Prehistoric Rock Art in the Southeast
Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
June 19, 2013
Richard Tillinghast
Readings from Poetry and Istanbul Travel Book
Co-sponsored with the School of Letters
April 22, 2013
Patrick Dean, Author
Hudson Stuck: 100 Year Anniversary of the Ascent of Denali
February 28, 2013
Marvin Pate, Rich Berlin, Michael Thompson
Sustainability Initiatives in Sewanee
January 31, 2013
Rayid Ghani, Chief Scientist for the Obama Campaign
The Role of Data, Technology, and Analytics in the Presidential Elections
Co-sponsored with the Math and Computer Science and Economics Departments, Sherwood Ebey Lecture.
November 28, 2012
Kevin Wilson, Assistant Professor in the Department of English
The Family Fang and Readings from a Work in Progress
October 24, 2012
John Tilford, Betsy Grant, and Rick Sommer
The Rick and Wilma Sommer Special Collection
March 29, 2012
Dr. John McCardell, Jr., Vice-Chancellor and President
The Library of the Future
February 29, 2012
Richard Tillinghast, Poet
Readings from Poetry
January 26, 2012
Jane Borden, Author
I Totally Meant to do That
November 17, 2011
W. Brown Patterson, Professor Emeritus of History
The History of the King James Bible: 400 Years
October 3, 2011
Sharyn McCrumb, Award Winning Southern Author
The Ballad Books and Southern Culture
March 8, 2010
Thomas Lakeman, Tennessee Williams Playwright in Residence
The Movies of Alfred Hitchcock
April 24, 2009
Thomas Keith, Consulting Editor at New Directions
Publishing Tennessee Williams, New Directions, and James Laughlin
February 13, 2009
Harry Lee (Hal) Poe, President of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum and Foundation of Richmond, Virginia
Eureka: Poe’s Journey of Discovery
November 19, 2008
Sarah Sherwood, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of the South
Archeological Research at the Bronze Age Site of Pecia in Romania
October 29, 2008
Thomas S. Freeman, Researcher for the British Academy John Foxe Project
New Views of ‘Bloody Mary’ and the Tudor Counter-Reformation
October 22, 2008
Derek Waller, Retired Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
A North Korean Birthday Party
April 16, 2008
James C. Davidheiser, Professor of German, University of the South
And They Lived Happily Ever After: The Brothers Grimm and Their Phenomenally Successful Fairy Tales
April 11, 2007
Donald Huber, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Languages, University of the South
Reading from Kick Butt, Huber’s humorous novel about a Southeastern Conference college football season
October 18, 2006
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Historian and Sewanee Alumnus, C’53, H’85
Who Owns the Dead? T.E. Lawrence of Arabia and his Disputed Reputation
September 27, 2006
Robert Benson, Professor of English, University of the South
Reading from Blood and Memory, a memoir
April 19, 2006
Anthony Abbott, author, critic, literary historian and Professor of English at Davidson College
Readings from his own poetry & prose
February 8, 2006
Robb White, humorist, naturalist and author of How To Build A Tin Canoe
Old-Time Naturalists
December 8, 2005
Ninette Fahmy, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University and specialist in Egyptian politics
Women and Human Rights in Egypt
October 3, 2005
Calhoun Winton, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland
The History of Scottish Books in the Colonial South
March 23, 2005
John Gatta, Brown Foundation Fellow at the University and former Professor of English at the University of Connecticut
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Southern Episcopalian?
February 16, 2005
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida
Honor and the Tragedy of Assassinations: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln
December 1, 2004
Annie Armour, University Archivist, and Tam Carlson, Professor of English at the University
The Present and Future State of the New Archives
(a joint meeting with the Sewanee Historic Preservation Society, held at the newly renovated Kappa Sigma House)
October 27, 2004
Todd Kelley, University Librarian
Plans and Goals for the duPont Library
April 17, 2004
William “Woody” Register, Professor of History and American Studies at the University
The Biggest Playground on Earth: Luna Park at Coney Island
March 31, 2004
Paul Bergeron, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Tennessee and Brown Foundation Fellow at the University
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and His Presidency
March 10, 2004
George Core, Editor of The Sewanee Review
George Garrett As A Man Of Letters
October 6, 2003
Jon Meacham, Managing Editor of Newsweek and author of Franklin and Winston
The Discovery of the Private Letters of FDR’s Great Love, Lucy Rutherford
April 22, 2003
Gerald Smith, Professor of Religion at the University
What We Can Learn From Cemeteries
March 26, 2003
Samuel Williamson, retired Vice-Chancellor and President of the University
Higher Education and the Vietnam War
November 20, 2002
Michael Bradley, Professor of History, Motlow State Community College
It Happened Here in the Civil War
October 31, 2002
Malcolm Goldstein, Emeritus Professor of English, City University of New York
Thornton Wilder’s Novels, Heaven’s My Destiny and The Eighth Day
April 17, 2002
Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Admitted Fiction: From Journalist to Writer of Fiction
February 19, 2002
Milbury Polk, author of Women of Discovery
Writing His Book
December 11, 2001
Jam Yang Norbu, Tibetan novelist
Tibetan Politics and the Great Game
November 28, 2001
Joel Cunningham, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University
Reflections on My First Year at Sewanee
October 19, 2001
James Waring McCrady, Emeritus Professor of French at the University
Russian Icons
April 19, 2001
Charles B. Lowry, Dean of Libraries, University of Maryland
Libraries in An Age of Change: Timeless Purpose and Scholarship
November 15, 2000
Richard Henderson, Associate Provost for Information Services at the University
Recent Developments in Information Technology
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