Williams is retired from the Department of English, Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He has studied 15 languages including Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and specializes in Medieval and Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, literary theory, comparative literature and Biblical studies.
Chilean writer Lina Meruane reads from and discusses her work, and then answers questions about her work and her experiences as a young woman writer. Meruane is a Chilean writer, essayist and cultural journalist.
Brian Wilson, Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, explores the tremendous impact of the King James Bible on the social and culture life of the United States from the colonial period to the present day.
Speakers at the opening reception for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit included: Dr. Katy Börner, the curator of the Places & Spaces exhibit and a professor with the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Dr. Mark E. J.
Speakers at the opening reception for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit included: Dr. Katy Börner, the curator of the Places & Spaces exhibit and a professor with the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Dr. Mark E. J.
Producer and writer Steve Most talks before the screening of his film, River of Renewal and then answers questions after the viewing.
Producer and writer Steve Most talks before the screening of his film, River of Renewal and then answers questions after the viewing.
Author Megan Sweeney, Associate Professor in the U-M Department of English Language and Literature, and Mary Heinen, Coordinator of Community and Youth Programs for the U-M Prison Creative Arts Project, discuss the book Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons and talk about the significant part books play in the life of inca
Pablo Alvarez, Curator and Outreach Librarian, U-M Special Collections Library, describes how the manuscript of the KJB was put into print in the first and second editions published by Robert Barker in 1611. To what extent did the printers change the original meaning of the translators?
"The future looks turbulent for the 30 million people who depend on the Colorado River for their water," says Photographer John Trotter. Trotter says, "For decades, so much has been taken from the Colorado that it has rarely made its ancient rendezvous with the Sea of Cortez.
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