The Schemel Forum and the University of Scranton Academic Theatre Program will host:
November 6th, 2013, 5:30 to 7pm
Reception to follow
Royal Theatre, McDade Center for Literary & Performing Arts
Free Admission
Please reserve a seat here or contact emily.brees@scranton.edu.
Trains magazine ranks The General as one of the 10 best train movies of all time. Buster Keaton’s extraordinary stunt work and the use of Civil War-era trains make this film a classic.
Don’t let the train leave the station without you! Join us for the International Film Series’ free presentation of The General at 7:00 p.m. Friday October 18th in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library.
This screening is being held in conjunction with the Lackawanna County Library System’s Scranton Reads program and is open to the public.
Please email sharon.finnerty@scranton.edu for reservations.
The Schemel Forum will host Dr. David Myers, Professor of Jewish History, UCLA on
Friday, October 18th for a World Affairs Luncheon at Noon.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to explore the current state of affairs in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship as well as a discussion of the events in Syria.
Heritage Room, Weinberg Memorial Library, 5th Floor
Don’t Miss Out on this Wonderful Collaborative Program Offered by
The Schemel Forum and The Hope Horn Gallery!
Mapping New Territories: Musings on Museums and Our Publics
Lecture by Marsha Semmel, Director for Strategic Planning, Institute for Museum and Library Services
Given in conjunction with the Exhibition of the Work of Berenice D’Vorzon
Thursday, October 3rd 5:30-7pm
Reception to Follow
It’s Free and Open to the Public.
To register, call Emily Brees – Schemel Forum Assistant
570-941-6206, emily.brees@scranton.edu
Poetry plays large in the scripts of Breaking Bad.
It’s an edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass that ultimately exposes Walter White; and it’s Shelley’s Ozymandias that foretells his end.
With only one episode left, make your Breaking Bad experience as rich as it can be:
Discover how many ways the same person can “break bad” or “break good” or “break good and bad” by reading Whitman’s takes on self-contradiction.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (This edition has an introduction by Carl Sandburg); call number: PS3201 1921
Find out how the story of that old, stone-faced, desert king Ozymandias relates to Walter White.
— The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; call number: PR5402 1972 v1
What do you do when the love of your life and your beloved locomotive are stolen from you by enemy troops? If you’re Buster Keaton, you deliver laughs and excitement while doing whatever it takes to recover what is yours!
The General is a 1926 silent film set in the midst of the American Civil War. Keaton plays Johnny Gray, an engineer whose train, The General, is stolen by Northern spies while the lovely Annabelle Lee is on board. Gray embarks on a daring adventure to save the day.
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, The General, captures the visual aspects of the Civil War while being thoroughly entertaining.
Join us for this free event on Friday October 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Kevin Norris will lead a discussion following the film.
This screening is being held in conjunction with the Lackawanna County Library System’s Scranton Reads event and is open to the public.
Contact Sharon Finnerty at sharon.finnerty@scranton.edu for reservations.
An illustrated history talk and exhibit reception will be held in the Weinberg Memorial Library on October 2nd at 6 p.m. in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the University.
The presentation, titled From the 300 Block of Wyoming Avenue to the Hill Section: The Evolution of the University of Scranton from 1888 to the Present, will be presented by Dr. Frank X.J. Homer, Professor of History Emeritus. The talk will be held in Library Room 305.
A reception will follow in the Library’s 5th Floor Heritage Room for the exhibit, Pride, Passion, Promise: Celebrating the 125th Anniversary.
The event is sponsored by Friends of the Weinberg Library.
For more information please contact Michael Knies, Special Collections Faculty Librarian, (570) 941-6341 or michael.knies@scranton.edu
During Fall 2013 the Library is piloting a new service which offers students the option to check out films for a 48-hour loan period. This gives students the convenience of viewing films outside of regular Library hours. The success of this pilot will determine if the service continues.
The library owns thousands of DVDs which may be used for home viewing or research. Films do not have public performance rights, so they may not be shown publicly at club/group meetings. Some films are Reserved for use in the Library and will not be part of this pilot.
To find out if a film you’d like to see is available, search the catalog for the title, and choose DVD or VHS under the Format heading to restrict the search. You can also search by keyword to find films on a particular topic, like Physics.
So if you missed a popular film like Life of Pi, or you need more information for that paper you’re writing, see what Media Resources has to offer.
What would you expect to find when you woke up after being cryogenically frozen for 200 years?
See Woody Allen’s slapstick vision of the future in one of his funniest films.
Swank Motion Pictures describes Sleeper as the story of health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) who enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles’ sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother’s body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists and awakens to a “brave new world” of deadening conformity, ruled with an iron fist by a never-seen leader. Miles is forced to flee for his life when the scientists — actually a group of revolutionary activists — are overpowered by the leader’s police. Stop in to find out what happens next…
Join us on Wednesday September 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Jean Lenville, Assistant Dean of the Library, will lead a discussion following the film. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Light refreshments will be served.
Contact Sharon Finnerty at sharon.finnerty@scranton.edu for reservations.
Visitors to the University’s 125th Anniversary website (125th.scranton.edu) will notice photographs, historic documents, and other materials from the Weinberg Memorial Library’s University Archives and Digital Collections. Library faculty, staff, and student workers contributed to the website’s timeline, photo galleries, and history pages, as well as the upcoming University history book and of course our Heritage Room anniversary exhibit.
We encourage all our University community members to submit “Your Scranton Story” in celebration of the University’s 125 years. At the end of the year, we’ll be capturing the Scranton Stories in our web archives, preserving your memories for the 150th anniversary and beyond.
