Presented by Dr. Azriel Bibliowicz Tuesday, April 11, 2017 6:30 p.m. Olin Hall Room 103
His lecture focused on the power of words and the responsibility of writers to intentionally revive or evolve the meaning of words to create social change. In this lecture Bibliowicz drew from canonic authors like Shakespeare, Cervantes, and more contemporary ones like Elias Canetti, Paul Celan, and Mario Vargas Llosa to address how poets and novelists have dealt with beginnings and ends, with fantasy and reality, and with overwhelming political and social circumstances.
Dr. Azriel Bibliowicz is a novelist and professor emeritus who taught creative writing and literature in the School for Film and Television at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Columbia where he also founded the Masters in Creative Writing program.
Sponsored by Lefler Endowment and Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, LALACS, and the Three Crowns Curriculum. This event is free an open to the public.
Peace, Storms, and Life
A conversation with Rev. Dr. Chaz Howard Friday, April 28, 2017 3 p.m. St. Peter Room, Jackson Campus Center
Rev. Charles L. Howard, PhD is the University Chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania, his Alma mater. Prior to his return to the University of Pennsylvania, he served as a chaplain in hospice, hospital, and as a street outreach worker to individuals experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. His writing has been featured in such publications as Black Arts Quarterly, Black Theology: An International Journal, Daily Good, Urban Cusp, Sojourners Magazine, Christianity Today's Leadership Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Huffington Post, and Slate. He is the editor of The Souls of Poor Folk, which explored new ways of considering homelessness and poverty, The Awe and The Awful, a poetry collection and Lenten Devotional, Black Theology as Mass Movement, a call to theologians to expand the reach of their theological work, and Pond River Ocean Rain, a small book about going deeper with a big God. Chaz has taught in the College of Arts and Sciences, in the Graduate School of Education at Penn, as well as at The Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia. He sees his vocational calling to be to work for a communal increase in joy, peace, justice, and love.
Rev. Dr. Howard also preached on Sunday, April 30 at a St. Peter community worship celebration at 10:30 a.m. in Christ Chapel.
