Eighteenth-Century Reading Room Guest Speaker Series Event

The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, located in room C196.05 on the Concourse level of the Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center, is proud to present a talk entitled “Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Wake of Enlightenment: Moses Mendelssohn, Judah Ben-Ze’ev, and the Rhetoric of Religion” given by Dr. David Richter (CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College) on Friday September 28, 2007 at 2 PM in the Reading Room. Seating is limited for this free event. Please contact Caroline Fuchs at cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu or call 212.817.7085 to reserve a seat.

18th-Century Reading Room Guest Speaker Series

The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, located in room c196.05 on the Concourse level of the Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center, is proud to present a joint talk entitled “Mapping Rebellion: Montresor and his Map” by Prof. Angelo Angelis (Hunter College, History) and Prof. Phillip Papas (Union County College, History) on Friday May 4, 2007 at 2:00 PM in the Reading Room. Seating is limited for this free event. Please contact Caroline Fuchs at cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu or call 212.817.7085 to reserve a seat.

18th-Century Reading Room Guest Speaker Series

The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, located in room C196.05 in the Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center, is proud to present a talk entitled “Reading about Africa in the Early Republic” by Prof. Jonathan Sassi (History, College of Staten Island, CUNY) on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 2:00 PM in the Reading Room.  Seating is limited. Please RSVP to cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu or call 212.817.7085

18th-Century Reading Room Guest Speaker Series

The 18th-Century Reading Room, located in room C196.05 on the lower level of the Mina Rees Library, will be hosting two informal talks in March:

Friday March 16, 2:00 PM – Prof. Philip Papas (Union County College) — “General Charles Lee: Soldier, Scholar, Radical” –THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY MARCH 30, 2:00 PM–

Monday March 26, 6:00 PM – Prof. Simon Middleton (University of Sheffield) — “Order and Authority in New Netherland: Or, Was Peter Stuyvesant Really Such a Bad Guy?”

RSVP to Caroline Fuchs at cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu or call 212.817.7085

Seating is limited — please reserve your space early.

18th-Century Reading Room Blog

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18th-Century Reading Room CUNY-Wide Essay Competition

The 2007 18th-Century Reading Room annual essay competition is open to all undergraduate and masters level students attending any of the CUNY colleges.

FIRST PRIZE $500

SECOND PRIZE $300

THIRD PRIZE $200

 

Essays will be judged by the following criteria:

• Research centering on at least two resources housed in the collection of the 18th-Century Reading Room
• Originality, style, clarity and thesis
• Properly cited and formatted using current MLA or Chicago styles
• No more than 8-10 pages, double spaced, using Times New Roman 12 pt. font

Submissions will be accepting at any time until May 11, 2007. Essays may be submitted electronically as a Word attachment to Caroline Fuchs at cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu with the subject line “2007 contest submission.” Essays sent via regular mail should be addressed to Caroline Fuchs at the Mina Rees Library/CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10016. Entries may also be hand delivered to room C196.05 on the concourse level of the library. Please include contact information with your submission.

Prize winners will be honored at a Fall 2007 reception in the Reading Room, and their essays will be published on our Reading Room blog. For further information concerning our contest, please contact Caroline Fuchs at cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu or call 212.817.7085.

 

Upcoming 18th-Century Reading Room Events

The 18ht-Century Reading Room will be hosting two informal talks in October as part of our Guest Speaker Series. The talks begin at 2:00 PM in the 18th-Century Reading Room, in room C196.05 on the Concourse level of the Mina Rees Library.

• Friday, October 20, 2006 — David Kazanjian (UPenn) — “‘When they come here they feal So free:’ Liberia and the Equivocal Freedom of Return.”
• Friday, October 27, 2006 — Inna Gorbatov (LIU) — “Voltaire’s Library in Russia.”

Seating is limited, so if you would like to attend either or both events, please contact Caroline Fuchs at cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu or call 212-817-7085.