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Myrle E. and Verle D. Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Faculty Program Colloquium

Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Title: "Prophylactic Futurism and the Logic of Security Society”

Presented by Professor Timothy Melley, Geoffrion Family Director of the Miami University Humanities Center at Miami of Ohio University

Timothy Melley is the author of Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (Cornell 2000) and The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State (Cornell 2012). His work has been covered by The Nation, The L.A. Times, The Village VoiceLe FigaroScientific American, The Wall Street JournalSmithsonian, BBC, and NPR.

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245 POT

Putting Pen to Paper

JOIN GRAPHITE FOR A NIGHT OF CREATIVITY AND CREATION IN THE FINE ARTS LIBRARY, WEDNESDAY 2/7 @6:30 

This meeting, we will be making physical copies of our creative works. We invite all creatives to join us in our efforts of making physical, literary art! Please bring some form of creative work, as well as additional art supplies as desired! 

Questions? Join our GroupMe! https://groupme.com/join_group/92666353/YxRVvqEy 

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Fine Arts Library

SINopsis

Is there a book that you really hate? Is there a book that you really love? Is there a book you have hot takes about? We want to hear about it!

Make a presentation about it or get up on your soapbox and rant about it for a few minutes.

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12th floor POT

UK English Professor’s ‘Aesthetic Cold War’ Wins 2023 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize

By Richard LeComte 

LEXINGTON, Ky. — “The Aesthetic Cold War,” a book by the University of Kentucky’s Peter Kalliney, has won the 2023 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Kalliney is the William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English in UK’s College of Arts and Sciences. 

Each year, a panel of Modernist Studies Association judges awards the prize to a book that has made the most significant contribution to modernist studies. 

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