Robert Dale Parker (Illinois) will be speaking here on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11AM. The talk is at the Castle Board Room at the MSU College of Law. Lunch will be served at noon, and it is FREE!
Prof. Meg Noori (Michigan) and Prof. Pat LeBeau (MSU) will serve as commentators.
Prof. Parker will be speaking about his book “The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft” (Penn. Press). His website about the book and Jane Schoolcraft is here.
Here is the announcement for our spring speaker series.
We’ve added our 2009 Speaker Series page to the blog. Speakers this year include Justin Richland, Stuart Banner and Robert Dale Parker. Click here for more information abou the speakers, their books and the tentative dates of the events.
Margaret Noori has published a book review essay on the recent collection of writings by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (edited by Robert Dale Parker), the Ojibwekwe who married Henry Schoolcraft, the Michigan Indian Agent from the 1820s to the 1940s, or so. The review essay was published in the Michigan Quarterly Review.
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