3/2 Athenaeum at 1pm - Recruit & Develop: Building a Championship Football Program

Join us on Wednesday, March 2, at 1pm for “Recruit & Develop: Building a Championship Football Program” presented by Steve Opgenorth.

This presentation and discussion will be focused on the recruitment and development of student-athletes within our football program here at Winona State University. It will focus on leadership and character development, as well as ways to identify the characteristics to seek in successful student-athletes. This recruitment discussion is applicable to any person in a leadership position looking to further his/her understanding of the recruiting process in athletics or business.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public.

For the complete Spring 2011 Athenaeum schedule and for additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

2/28 Word of the Week: protean

pro·te·an /ˈprōtēən/ (adj.)

1. Tending or able to change frequently or easily.

2. Able to do many different things; versatile.

2/21 Word of the Week: irenic

Word of the Week - irenic /ahy-ren-ik/ (adj.): tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or concilatory.

2/23 Athenaeum at 1pm - The Decorative Unconscious: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Judy Ledgerwood

Join us on Wednesday, February 23, at 1pm for “The Decorative Unconscious: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Judy Ledgerwood” presented by Vittorio Colaizzi.

In modern art and criticism, “decorative” has been considered the ultimate insult, implying frivolity and capitulation to the needs of the privileged. And yet many artists have used decoration to expand concepts of the pictorial (Matisse) and to critique often male-dominated aesthetic orthodoxies (Miriam Schapiro). Upon closer examination, it is apparent that decoration is not an identifiable quality, but a field of overlapping ones. The three abstract painters mentioned here have explicitly denied the decorative in their work. Nevertheless, the way they produce meaning depends on their creative exploitation of aspects of decoration.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public.

For the complete Spring 2011 Athenaeum schedule and for additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

2/17 - Have you read Moby-Dick or the Whale?

The Krueger Library is sponsoring a slide series celebrating the Book. The series is titled: The Book is Dead. Long Live the Book.

The first book of the series is Moby-Dick or the Whale, by Herman Melville. It was completed in 1851. "An epic of a literal and metaphysical quest, Moby-Dick belongs to no genre. Although charaters appear and disappear without explanation and the point of view changes, the book succeeds...although his contemporaries did not appreciate it....It was not until the 1920s that he [Melville] began to be recognized as one of the greatest American writers" - Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia

Moby-Dick or the Whale can be found in the WSU Krueger Library's Main collection with the following call numbers PS2384 or PS2380.

2/14 - Word of the Week: Nefarious

Word of the Week: Nefarious /ni-fair-ee-uhs/ (adj.): wicked, iniquitous, villainous.

2/7 - Word of the Week: Moxie

Moxie /mok-see/ (noun):

U.S. Slang - courage, determination, vigor 'guts,' 'nerve'; the ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage.

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2/9 Athenaeum at 1pm - How Genre Informs Contemporary Literature

Join us on Wednesday, February 9, at 1pm for “How Genre Informs Contemporary Literature” presented by Nicholas Ozment.

Margaret Atwood. Cormac McCarthy. Susanna Clarke. Michael Chabon. Chuck Palahniuk. Toni Morrison. You will not find these critically acclaimed authors in the science-fiction, fantasy, horror, or mystery sections of the bookstore, yet they have all written novels that are informed by those genres. Nicholas Ozment, who has long studied the intersections of genre and literary fiction, will discuss how these writers draw upon genre to create resonant works of literary fiction. He will also address this question: What raises a work of literature above genre?

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public.

For the complete Spring 2011 Athenaeum schedule and for additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/