CNU's Dean William Parks Colloquium Speaker Series to Present lecture on Female Judaism
News Release - October 31, 2007
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Emily L. Lucier
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(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) - Christopher Newport University's Dean William Parks Colloquium Series and the Bangel Lecture in American Judaism announce poet and novelist Marge Piercy, who will be presenting the lecture “Exploring a Female Judaism: Reshaping a Culture and Religion that Will Enrich the Lives of Mothers and Daughters” on Wednesday, November 7 in the Ferguson Center for the Arts. This lecture and reading are free and open to the public.
Ms. Piercy is an important voice in the discussion about traditional and modern religion and her lecture and poetry reading from "The Art of Blessing the Day" will confront one of the most pressing challenges of the century: the ability of traditional and contemporary versions of religion to coexist and support each other. A popular speaker on college campuses, she has been a featured writer on Bill Moyers' PBS specials, Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion™, Terri Gross's Fresh Air™, the Today Show, and many radio programs nationwide. Praised as one of the few American writers who are accomplished poets as well as novelists, Ms. Piercy is one of the nation's best selling poets, who is a writer of many genres: historical novels, science fiction (for which she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in the United Kingdom), novels of social comment and contemporary entertainments. She has taught, lectured and / or performed her work at well over 400 universities around the world.
Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including The New York Times bestseller "Gone To Soldiers," national bestsellers "Braided Lives," "The Longings of Women," and "Woman on the Edge of Time," as well as seventeen volumes of poetry, and a critically acclaimed memoir "Sleeping with Cats." Born in Detroit and educated at the University of Michigan , she is the recipient of four honorary doctorates. For more information please contact: Professor Roberta Rosenberg, Chair, Dean William Parks Colloquium at (757) 594-8870, or rrosenb@cnu.edu.
WHAT: The Dean William Parks Colloquium Series - Marge Piercy lecture: “Exploring a Female Judaism: Reshaping a Culture and Religion that Will Enrich the Lives of Mothers and Daughters”
WHEN: Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Christopher Newport University , The Ferguson Center for the Arts, Music and Theatre Hall.
Lecture is free and open to the public.
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