The second Geneva Reading Series event is “Awaken,” which takes place on Wednesday, November 11 at 7 p.m. in the West Reading Room of McCartney Library. Among the speakers for this event are Geneva professors Dr. Shirley Kilpatrick and Dr. Eric Miller, as well as current student Jeremy Schep.
In addition, the event includes free music, food and drinks.
The Geneva Reading Series was established by English professor Dr. Daniel Williams, who sponsors two events each semester. These events provide time to learn about and support various forms of reading and writing.
Kilpatrick says, “As a colleague of Dr. Williams, I see the creativity he brings to our campus. I see his desire to cultivate a community of writers which extends beyond those majoring in writing.”
Miller is also passionate about this event, as well as writing in general. He says, “The GRS is powerful precisely because it makes possible the union of these two dimensions of our common life at the college: the personal and the civic, or the communal. We see, through forums such as the GRS, that we, as a college, truly do live together—that is; that we find life together. In our day of anarchic individualism, that hope for and experience of community is what we all deeply need. “
Dr. Williams adds, “You will never forget this night. If you do, you were not there. If you weren’t there, you will forget. And then it will be a night to you that might as well have never happened. It will not exist. That is what you will have to live with.”
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