Denison University releases fall schedule for Beck Series
Denison University's Beck Series presents its Fall 2023 schedule. The Beck Series brings award-winning authors to Denison for the entire community to enjoy. The events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Margot Singer at singerm@denison.edu or visit www.denison.edu/beck.
The complete Fall 2023 Beck Series schedule includes:
Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m., Angus Fletcher presents a reading in the boardroom of the Barney-Davis Hall, located at 200 W. Loop. Fletcher is a professor of Story Science at The Ohio State University’s Project Narrative, the world’s leading academic think tank for the study of how stories work. His research employs a mix of laboratory experiment, literary history and rhetorical theory to explore the psychological effects of different narrative technologies. His most recent book, "Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature" (2021) details the mental health and wellbeing benefits of literary breakthroughs from ancient Sumer to the present day. He has also worked for more than a decade as a consultant for film and television producers at Disney, Sony, the BBC, Amazon, and PBS.
Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 4:30 p.m., Iya Kiva presents a poetry reading in the Denison Museum, located at 240 W. Broadway, on the lower level of the Eisner Center for the Performing Arts. A poet, translator, and journalist, Kiva was born in Donetsk and fled the war in 2014 to settle in Kyiv, Ukraine. Shortly after arriving, she began shifting from writing in her native Russian to writing in her second language, Ukrainian, and now writes exclusively in Ukrainian. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, "Further from Heaven" (Podal’she ot raya, 2018) and "The First Page of Winter" (Persha storinka zimy, 2019), and has received numerous awards for her poetry and translation. Her poetry is presented in conjunction with the Denison Museum's exhibition "Art in the Time of War" and "Dear Ukraine: A Global Community Poem."
Thursday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m., Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach presents a poetry reading in the Denison Museum, located at 240 W. Broadway, on the lower level of the Eisner Center for the Performing Arts. Dasbach came to the United States as a Jewish refugee in 1993, from Dnipro, Ukraine, and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Her newest collection of poetry is "40 WEEKS" (2023). She is also the author of the poetry collections "Don’t Touch the Bones" (2020) and "The Many Names for Mother" (2018). Her poems have been published in POETRY, American Poetry Review, and The Nation, among other literary journals. Having taught at Hendrix College in Little Rock, Arkansas, she is now an assistant professor at Denison and lives with her family in Westerville, Ohio.
Thursday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m., M.E. O’Brien presents a reading in the auditorium of Higley Hall, locate at 100 Burt Ridge Road). O’Brien writes and speaks on gender freedom and capitalism. She is the co-author of the speculative novel, "Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072" (2022) and the author of "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" (2023). She co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. This event is co-sponsored by Queer Studies.
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