Tuesday Teas on Writing Set at Williams College
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This year's Tuesday Teas, a series of conversations with Williams College faculty about writing and publishing, begin on Tuesday, April 14, and will continue through the semester on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in Griffin Hall, Room 3.The public is invited and the event is free. Sandwiches and refreshments will be served.
The teas are organized by the Williams College libraries and sponsored by the office of the dean of the faculty.
"The goal of the Tuesday Teas is to foster a community conversation around issues of academic research, writing and artistic creation as they relate to publishing," said Christine Menard, head of research and reference services.
On April 14, Michael Glier, professor of art, will discuss how "Along A Long Line, the Blog Becomes a Book." He will talk about the publishing of paintings, photographs, and writings featured on his blog, "Along A Long Line."
Glier started the blog to record his journey from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, which he undertook to paint an extraordinary variety of landscapes. Glier's paintings have been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Drawing Center in New York. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1976 and his master's from Hunter College in 1979.
On April 21, Christopher Bolton, assistant professor of comparative and Japanese literature, will discuss "Schools, Cyborgs, and Other Serious Subjects: Inventing Mechademia."
Bolton will review his experiences as an editor for Mechademia, an annual forum of anime, manga and fan arts, and introduce his recent book "Sublime Voices: the Fictional Science and the Science Fiction of Abe Kobo." Interested in the relationship between literature and science, Bolton is exploring the ways in which digital texts change the reader's experience of a work of fiction. He received his doctorate in Japanese from Harvard University in 1998.
On April 28, Nicole Mellow, assistant professor of political science, will talk on "Discovering Disunion: Writing about Red and Blue America." The talk will detail her experiences writing "The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship."
Mellow has instructed numerous political science courses at Williams, including a tutorial on "American Political Development: Continuity and Change." She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1992 and her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.
On May 5, Eiko Maruko Siniawer, assistant professor of art history, will lead a discussion titled "An Unlikely Book," about her new book "Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960."
Particularly interested in issues of political violence and democracy, Siniawer argues that because of the systemic nature of political violence in modern Japan, the country can be called a violent democracy. She received her bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1997 and her doctorate in history from Harvard University in 2003.
