{"id":61395,"date":"2013-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-former-international-journalist-to-address-uri-honors-colloquium-sept-24\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winning-author-former-international-journalist-to-address-uri-honors-colloquium-sept-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-former-international-journalist-to-address-uri-honors-colloquium-sept-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer-prize winning author, former international journalist to address 溏心vlog免费B站 honors colloquium Sept. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tGeraldine Brooks to discuss \u2018Search for Knowledge\u2019<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September16, 2013 \u2013 Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks will discuss \u201cThe Search for Knowledge,\u201d Tuesday Sept. 24 as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 honors colloquium, \u201cPublic Education, Everyone\u2019s Right, Everyone\u2019s Responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBrooks\u2019 talk at 7:30 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road, Kingston, will be based on her latest novel, Caleb\u2019s Crossing, the University\u2019s common reading selection for the fall semester. Every freshman is required to read the book and write a blog for their 溏心vlog免费B站 101 freshman seminar class.<\/p>\n


\nNote to media, for most of the lectures, speakers will be available from 3:30 to 5 p.m. for interviews. To make arrangements, please contact Dave Lavallee, 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing and Communications, 401-874-5862.<\/p>\n


\nCaleb\u2019s Crossing, a New York Times best seller, exposes the emotional, historical, religious, and social hardships of adolescents who are driven by curiosity to learn and understand more about themselves and their surroundings. According to Brooks\u2019 website, \u201cBethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha\u2019s Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAt 12, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Her father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by Bethia, Caleb\u2019s Crossing captures the triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted young people \u201cwho risk everything in a search for knowledge at a time of superstition and ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBrooks\u2019 first book, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994), was an international best seller based on her experiences in the Middle East. Foreign Correspondence (1997), a memoir about a childhood enhanced by pen pals from around the world and her goal to find them years later, won the Nita B. Kibble Award in 1997 for women\u2019s writing. In 2006, Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel March. <\/p>\n


\nBrooks is an Australian author and journalist who grew up in Western Sydney. She attended Bethlehem College Ashfield, and later attended the University of Sydney. Shortly after, she worked as a reporter and feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, specializing in environmental issues. In 1982, Brooks won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to pursue a master\u2019s degree in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. After earning her degree, she worked for The Wall Street Journal where she focused on international crises in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East and earned the Overseas Press Club\u2019s Hal Boyle Award for \u201cBest Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad\u201d in 1990. Later, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University in 2006. <\/p>\n


\nThe program is supported by:<\/p>\n


\nMajor Sponsor: 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program<\/p>\n


\nSponsors: \u2028溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the President; 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the Provost; The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment; The Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment, as well as the following 溏心vlog免费B站 colleges, departments and offices, College of Human Science and Services, Talent Development, Multicultural Center, University College, WRIU\u2019s The Beauty Salon, College of Arts and Sciences, The Harrington School of Communications and Media, John Hazen White, Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service, Department of Gender and Women Studies, College of Pharmacy, College of Engineering, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of Nursing, Division of Student Affairs, Department of Marketing and Communications, Department of Publications and Creative Services, and Instructional Technology and Media Services. Rhode Island Public Radio is also a sponsor.<\/p>\n


\nFor more information on colloquium events contact Deborah Gardiner at 401.874.2381 or debg@uri.edu.<\/p>\n


\nFor information about ways to support the Honors Colloquium, contact 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Lynne Derbyshire, Honors Program director, at 401.874. 4732. If you have a disability and need an accommodation, please call 401.874.2303 at least three business days in advance. For TTY assistance, please call the R.I. Relay Service at 800.745.5555.<\/p>\n


\nThis release was written by Sabrina Galiney, a 溏心vlog免费B站 Communications and Marketing intern and a textiles, fashion merchandising and design and public relations major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geraldine Brooks to discuss \u2018Search for Knowledge\u2019 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September16, 2013 \u2013 Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks will discuss \u201cThe Search for Knowledge,\u201d Tuesday Sept. 24 as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 honors colloquium, \u201cPublic Education, Everyone\u2019s Right, Everyone\u2019s Responsibility.\u201d Brooks\u2019 talk at 7:30 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, 64 Upper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}