University of New England

New forum series highlights UNE authors

"UNE Authors and Notes" - a series of talks and readings by University of New England faculty highlighting their writing and books - will be held this fall 2005 at the University Campus, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford.

The lectures are free and open to the University community and the public.

The authors will read from their books and share with the audience their experiences through questions and answers. Please bring a brown bag lunch. Beverage and cookies will be provided. Copies of the works discussed by these authors will be available from the UNE Bookstore.

The series is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the UNE Libraries.

Schedule

Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005
Susan McHugh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English 
McHugh will talk about and read from her book Dog.
Noon, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UC.

McHugh in her research as well as teaching is interested in using theory to connect literary studies with other disciplinary interests, including visual culture and anthrozoology (studies of human-animal interaction). She has published articles in such journals as Camera Obscura and Critical Inquiry. She is the author of Dog (2004), a literary and cultural history of humankind's best and perhaps oldest friend.  Presently she is working on another book that explores how animals have shaped visual narratives through the twentieth century.
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Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005
Anouar Majid, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English
Majid will talk about and read from his book Si Yussef.
Noon, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UC.

Anouar Majid was born in Tangier, Morocco and now teaches in the Department of English. His novel Si Yussef was first published in 1992 and was just reissued in paperback by Interlink in 2005. He is also the author of Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age (Stanford University Press, 2004) and Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World (Duke University Press, 2000). Professor Majid co-founded and is the editor-in-chief of Tingis, the first Moroccan-American magazine of ideas and culture.
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Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005
David Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Smith will talk about and read from his book Why We Lie.
Noon, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UC.

David Livingstone Smith received his MA from Antioch University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of London (Kings College).  He is the author of five books, the most recent of which is  Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind (St. Martins Press, 2004), over sixty papers, and has guest-edited four special issues of scholarly journals.  Dr. Smith spent over twenty years living and working in the United Kingdom, where he dirested the MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's College, where he also served as interim dean, maintained a private practice as a psychotherapist, was clinical director of a nonprofit organization providing psychological help to inner city children and adolescents, and worked as a consultant to the national governments of the United kingdom and Austria.  His research interests include the evolutionary roots of human nature, philosophy of mind, Freud scholarship, the biology of inbreeding avoidance, deception and self-deception, and unconscious social cognition.  He is currently completing a book on the evolutionary roots of war, which will be published by St. Martins Press in 2006.
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For more information, please contact

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Ext. 2804
E.mail: Aahmida@UNE.Edu
 
Janice Beal, Research Librarian
Library
Ext. 2496
E.mail: JBeal@UNE.Edu

(Press release issued Oct. 4, 2005)