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Raquel Rabinovich

Date
December 12, 2019
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The artist Raquel Rabinovich (b. Argentina 1929) will discuss her exhibition Raquel Rabinovich: The Reading Room, on view in the Frederick Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College October 25 - December 20, 2018. The exhibition is being held concurrently with the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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Ray English

Date
November 28, 2006
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Ray English, Director of Libraries at Oberlin College and Chair of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, will talk on behalf of the watershed Federal Research Public Access Act (S-2695) and its manifold benefits for libraries, higher education, and information-seekers at

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Rebecca Edwards

Date
November 14, 2006
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Rebecca Edwards, Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, offers new perspectives on the transformations that swept the new American nation in the period between Emancipation and the first deployment of American troops overseas from her book New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age.

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Rebecca Rego Barry

Date
April 6, 2016
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Rebecca Rego Barry, editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine, discusses her book Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places (Voyageur, 2015). "Anyone who loves used and rare books has stories to tell about discovering gems in unlikely places. These tales become

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Richard E. Wilson

Date
December 21, 2016
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Richard E. Wilson, Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Music, retiring this month after 50 years of teaching at Vassar College, talks aout music, education, his career and his life at Vassar. "Wilson is a Professor of Music on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair. In addition to his 50 years of teaching at

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Robert Brigham

Date
December 5, 2006
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Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College, discusses his new book entitled: Is Iraq another Vietnam?

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Robert Darnton

Date
April 30, 2014
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Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard University talks about his book Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Harvard, 2012). "In 1749 Parisians feasted on a half-dozen poems that ridiculed Louis XV for being

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Robert DeMaria, Jr.

Date
March 5, 2014
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Robert DeMaria, Jr., Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, talks about the paragon of eighteenth-century English scholarship and letters Samuel Johnson, Johnson's reading habits, his monumental Dictionary of the English Language, scholarly editing, and the final installments

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Robert K. Brigham

Date
April 17, 2019
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Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College, discusses his book Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 2018). The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and

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Robert Kipniss

Date
September 15, 2021
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"The painter, printmaker, and writer Robert Kipniss talks about his memoir Robert Kipniss: A Working Artist's Life (University Press of New England, 2011). \n""A painter's life is a solitary one, alone in the studio, combining intelligence and imagination with technical skills to create a unique

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Robert O. McClintock

Date
May 3, 2017
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We continue our series on the value of the liberal arts in contemporary society with a conversation with Robert O. McClintock, John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Professor Emeritus in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education at Teacher's College, Columbia University in the City of New

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Roberta Shaffer

Date
May 14, 2014
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Roberta Shaffer (VC'74), Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress and former Dean of the Library School at the University of Texas, Austin, talks in an interview recorded in her offices about the Library of Congress, its organization, structure, architecture, collections

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Ronald D. Patkus

Date
April 25, 2018
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Historian Ronald D. Patkus, Associate Director of the Library for Special Collections at Vassar College, talks about his recent book The Privately Printed Bible: Private and Fine Press Editions of Biblical Texts in the British Isles and North America 1892-2000 (Oak Knoll 2017). The Privately Printed

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Ronald Patkus, Nikolai Firtich, Dan Ungurianu

Date
April 10, 2019
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Historian and Associate Director of the Library for Special Collections Ronald D. Patkus joins Professors Nikolai Firtich and Dan Ungurianu of the Vassar Department of Russian to discuss the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) and the exhibit on view 23 January through June 10, 2019 in

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Sally V. Keil

Date
September 21, 2016
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Writer and Jungian psychological counselor Sally V. Keil (VC '68) talks about her book on Carl Jung's personality typology To Live in the World as Ourselves: Self-Discovery and Better Relationships Through Jung's Typology (Four Directions, 2014, rev. 2017). "What Quiet has done for introversion, To

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Sally Van Wagenen Keil

Date
September 20, 2017
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Author and pilot Sally Van Wagenen Keil (VC ' 68) discusses her narrative history of the WASPs (Women's Air Service Pilots) of the Second World War, Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (New Directions, 1990). "Those Wonderful Women in their Flying Machines hones in on World War II to

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Seaver Leslie

Date
October 28, 2015
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Artist Seaver Leslie discusses his work and the exhibition of magnificent glass sculptures on view in Thompson Library at Vassar College through November 22 entitled the Ulysses Cylinders by Dale Chihuly and Sever Leslie, with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick. "Gorgeous, enigmatic, and provocative

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Stella Beratlis

Date
March 23, 2022
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Modesto poet Stella Beratlis returns to the program to talk about her new collection, Dust Bowl Venus: Poems, just out from Sixteen Rivers Press. "Sometimes the ground shifts under our feet and leaves us stumbling; our world changed. DUST BOWL VENUS documents that stumbling; that changed world

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Stella Beratlis

Date
November 16, 2016
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Stella Beratlis, Modesto California's Poet Laureate and managing librarian at Tracy Library of the Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library, talks about poetry and librarianship, and reads from and discusses her new book of poems Alkalai Sink, (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015).

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Stephen F. Eisenman

Date
September 23, 2015
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Stephen F. Eisenman, Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, discusses our relationship with other species and his book, Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights (Reaktion, 2013). "Stephen F. Eisenman shows how artists from William Hogarth to Pablo Picasso and Sue Coe have

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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc