A Lecture Dressed Up Like A Disscussion In The Guise Of A Conversation: Wendell Berry And The 2012/13 Avenali Lecture

Wendell Berry, an honorable member of the Graduate Services Modern Authors Collection (as well as conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet), will be giving the 2011-2012 Avenali Lecture this Wednesay night (October 31st) at 4pm in Zellerbach Hall. This lecture is titled “An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic: A Conversation With Wendell Berry,” which means it will not really be a lecture at all, but a conversation between Wendell Berry and some of UC Berkeley’s esteemed faculty members. This panel discussion–or if you prefer, panel conversation–will include Michael Pollan from the Graduate School Of Journalism, Robert Hass from the English Department, Miguel Altieri from the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department, and Anne-Lise Francois from the English and Comparative Literature Departments. What’s more, it will be Halloween too! We already know the lecure will be dressed up like a disscussion in the guise of a conversation, but what will everyone on the panel’s costumes be? I wonder. I am sure they will be splendid though.What’s more, the Avenali Lecture is not just for Halloween, as All Saint’s Day gets in on some of this Avenali action too. On Thursday (November 1st), there will be a reading and a disscussion by and with Wendell Berry at 6pm in the Berkeley Art Museum Theater located at 2621 Durant Avenue.

These events are sponsered by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. They are ticketed events, and tickets will be available at the event venues one hour before each event. One ticket per person.

Below are a few of the many books written by Wendell Berry in the Graduate Services Collection (We have 68!). Come read a few in anticipation of this great occasion. Enjoy.

 

Bringing it to the table : on farming and food

Bringing It To The Table: On Farming And Food

New collected poems

New Collected Poems

Imagination in place : essays

Imagination In Place: Essays

Andy Catlett : early travels : a novel

Andy Catlett: Early Travels: A Novel

That distant land : the collected stories

The Distant Land: The Collected Stories

The unsettling of America : culture & agriculture

The Unsettling Of America: Culture And Agriculture

The gift of good land : further essays, cultural and agricultural

The Gift Of Good Land: Further Essays, Culture And Agriculture

A timbered choir : the sabbath poems, 1979-1997

A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997

Given : new poems

Given: New Poems

Hannah Coulter : a novel

Hannah Coulter: A Novel


Candy Corn: The Worst Of Both Worlds: New Books In Graduate Services In October

A bountiful supply of books was delievered throughout October to Graduate Services. It was like Trick or Treat without the trick option at least a few days each week. Books coming in like candy (though with some substance behind them; I guess they’d be more like granola then; Or a Power Bar), and the only costume I had to wear was myself.  Isn’t October great. And now let’s count the stash: two Heideggers, five Carol Oates, four Yeats, a few Edmund Wilsons, an Agamben, Cather, Connelly, Conrad, Falci, Hunt, Nabokov, Landreth, Spender, Stovall, Wharton, Wolfe, Wright, Woolf, and a Zizek all in one month. My mind teeth are already sore just thinking about them.  Thank goodness there was no Candy Corn this year. Enjoy.

 

The Kingdom And The Glory: For A Theological Genealogy Of Economy And Government by Giorgio Agamben

cather

The Song Of The Lark by Willa Cather

connelly

From Enemy To Brother: The Revolution In Catholic Teaching On The Jews, 1933-1965 by John Connelly

Within the tides

The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Joseph Conrad: Within The Tides edited by Alexandre Fachard

falci

Continuity And Change In Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 by Eric Falci

Bremen and Freiburg lectures : Insight into that which is, and Basic principles of thinking

Bremen And Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is And Basic Principles Of Thinking by Martin Heidegger

heidegger

Contributions To Philosophy (Of The Event) by Martin Heidegger

hunt

Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt

The face of mammon : the matter of money in English Renaissance literature

The Face Of Mammon: The Matter Of Money In English Renaissance Literature by David Landreth

Selected poems

Selected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov

oates

Black Dahlia And White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates

In Darkest America: Tone Clusters and The Eclipse: Two Plays by Joyce Carol Oates

Sexy

Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates

Starr Bright will be with you soon

Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon by Joyce Carol Oates writing as Rosamond Smith

oates

Two Or Three Things I Forgot To Tell You by Joyce Carol Oates

New selected=

New Selected Journals, 1939-1995 by Stephen Spender edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender

stovall

Paris And The Spirit Of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, And Revolution by Tyler Stovall

The Correspondence Of Edith Wharton And Macmillan, 1901-1930 edited by Shafquat Towheed

wilson

Literary Essays And Reviews Of The 1920s and 30s by Edmund Wilson

wilson

Literary Essays And Reviews Of The 1930s and 40s by Edmund Wilson

The four lost men : the previously unpublished long version

The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version Including The Original Short Story by Thomas Wolfe

wollaeger

The Oxford Handbook Of Global Modernisms edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough

woolf

The Years (Shakespeare Head Press Edition) by Virginia Woolf edited by David Bradshaw and Ian Blyth

A father's law

A Father’s Law by Richard Wright

Collaborative one-acts plays, 1901-1903 : Cathleen ni Houlihan, the pot of broth, the country of the young heads or harps : manuscript materials

Collaborative One-Act Plays, 1901-1903: Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot Of Broth, The Country Of The Young, Heads Or Harps Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory edited by James Pethica

yeats

The King Of The Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon In March Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats edited by Richard Allen Cave

yeats

The Tower (1928) Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats edited by Richard Finneran

Where There Is Nothing And The Unicorn From The Stars Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory edited by Wim Van Mierlo

zizek

Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek


Candy Corn: The Worst Of Both Worlds: New Books In Graduate Services In October

A bountiful supply of books was delievered throughout October to Graduate Services. It was like Trick or Treat without the trick option at least a few days each week. Books coming in like candy (though with some substance behind them; I guess they’d be more like granola then; Or a Power Bar), and the only costume I had to wear was myself.  Isn’t October great. And now let’s count the stash: two Heideggers, five Carol Oates, four Yeats, a few Edmund Wilsons, an Agamben, Cather, Connelly, Conrad, Falci, Hunt, Nabokov, Landreth, Spender, Stovall, Wharton, Wolfe, Wright, Woolf, and a Zizek all in one month. My mind teeth are already sore just thinking about them.  Thank goodness there was no Candy Corn this year. Enjoy.

 

The Kingdom And The Glory: For A Theological Genealogy Of Economy And Government by Giorgio Agamben

cather

The Song Of The Lark by Willa Cather

connelly

From Enemy To Brother: The Revolution In Catholic Teaching On The Jews, 1933-1965 by John Connelly

Within the tides

The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Joseph Conrad: Within The Tides edited by Alexandre Fachard

falci

Continuity And Change In Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 by Eric Falci

Bremen and Freiburg lectures : Insight into that which is, and Basic principles of thinking

Bremen And Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is And Basic Principles Of Thinking by Martin Heidegger

heidegger

Contributions To Philosophy (Of The Event) by Martin Heidegger

hunt

Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt

The face of mammon : the matter of money in English Renaissance literature

The Face Of Mammon: The Matter Of Money In English Renaissance Literature by David Landreth

Selected poems

Selected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov

oates

Black Dahlia And White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates

In Darkest America: Tone Clusters and The Eclipse: Two Plays by Joyce Carol Oates

Sexy

Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates

Starr Bright will be with you soon

Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon by Joyce Carol Oates writing as Rosamond Smith

oates

Two Or Three Things I Forgot To Tell You by Joyce Carol Oates

New selected=

New Selected Journals, 1939-1995 by Stephen Spender edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender

stovall

Paris And The Spirit Of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, And Revolution by Tyler Stovall

The Correspondence Of Edith Wharton And Macmillan, 1901-1930 edited by Shafquat Towheed

wilson

Literary Essays And Reviews Of The 1920s and 30s by Edmund Wilson

wilson

Literary Essays And Reviews Of The 1930s and 40s by Edmund Wilson

The four lost men : the previously unpublished long version

The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version Including The Original Short Story by Thomas Wolfe

wollaeger

The Oxford Handbook Of Global Modernisms edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough

woolf

The Years (Shakespeare Head Press Edition) by Virginia Woolf edited by David Bradshaw and Ian Blyth

A father's law

A Father’s Law by Richard Wright

Collaborative one-acts plays, 1901-1903 : Cathleen ni Houlihan, the pot of broth, the country of the young heads or harps : manuscript materials

Collaborative One-Act Plays, 1901-1903: Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot Of Broth, The Country Of The Young, Heads Or Harps Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory edited by James Pethica

yeats

The King Of The Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon In March Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats edited by Richard Allen Cave

yeats

The Tower (1928) Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats edited by Richard Finneran

Where There Is Nothing And The Unicorn From The Stars Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory edited by Wim Van Mierlo

zizek

Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek