Upcoming events in the Writers House Bookmark Series

All events take place in the Writers House Executive Seminar Room (Murray Hall 002)

Designing Minds, Designing Spaces

Tuesday, March 4
6 p.m.

• Alison Isenberg (Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences)

Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Winner of the 2005 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians; the 2005 Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American Planning History; the 2005 Historic Preservation Book Prize from the Universtiy of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation; and named 2005 Honor Book from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities

• Carla Yanni (Department of Art History, School of Arts and Sciences)

Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Religion and Secularism – Past and Present, Here and Abroad

Tuesday, April 22
6 p.m.

Featured authors and publications:

• Barbara Cooper (Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences)

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (Indiana University Press, 2006)
Winner of the 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association

• Colin Jager (Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences)

The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)

• John A. McClure (Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences)

Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (University of Georgia Press, 2007)