This year’s celebration will be from 5 - 7p.m. and feature two keynote speakers:

Douglas Brinkley, noted author and commentator, professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy, will open the two-day celebration on December 5, speaking about the role of writing and publishing in the academy today 5;

Roz Chast, staff cartoonist for The New Yorker will deliver the closing keynote remarks on December 6, speaking about her own extensive catalog of work and her career as a commercial artist.

The celebration will also feature several faculty authors presenting about their newly published books as well as panel discussions about publishing and the digital humanities. If you have any questions, please contact Jian Ling or Barbara Liebmann at 935-5576. After the presentations, we hope you will join us for drinks and refreshments.

• Keynote Address: Louis Menand,essayist, literary critic, journalist, and author
• Bill Lowry, Professor of Political Science - Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks. Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
• Lori Watt, Assistant Professor of History and International & Area Studies - When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.

•  Joyce Carol Oates, Award-winning author, Keynote address: "The Writer's (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration"
• Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Professor of History and Religious Studies, "Sufism: The Formative Period." University of California Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
• Marina MacKay, Assistant Professor of English, "Modernism and World War II." Cambridge University press, 2007.