Seventh Annual
Professors’ Picks Program
Sponsored By Residence Life and the
UVA Bookstore
|
Professor |
Department |
Professor’s Book
Pick and Author |
Meeting Date, Time and Venue
/ Facilitator
|
|
Gustavo Pellon |
Department
for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese |
The Underdogs:
Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution: a Translation of Mariano
Azuela's Los De Abajo With Related Texts Mariano Azuela |
1/22, Thursday, 6:00 pm Tuttle Lounge Kiki Armengol cma9b@virginia.edu |
|
Karen Ryan |
Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
Venedikt Erofeev |
1/29, Thursday, 6:00 pm Tuttle Lounge Adam Reitelbach adam.reitelbach@gmail.com |
|
Justin
Holcomb |
Department
of Sociology |
They Poured Fire on
Us from the Sky Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian
Deng, Judy Bernstein |
1/21, Wednesday, 6:30 pm Tuttle Lounge James Anderson jta5d@virginia.edu |
|
Angela
Davis |
Special
Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs and Chief Student Affairs
Officer and Department of English |
The Color Purple Alice Walker |
1/28, Wednesday, 6:00 pm Page Lounge Veronica Rivera veronica.iris.rivera@gmail.com |
|
John Portmann |
Department
of Religious Studies |
On Ian McEwan |
1/22, Thursday, 6:00 pm Kellogg 112 Ryan Early rfe2x@virginia.edu |
|
Martien A.
Halvorson-Taylor |
Department
of Religious Studies |
Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri |
1/20, Tuesday, 6:00 pm Kellogg 112 Katie Vorhis kpv3b@virginia.edu |
|
Paul
Freedman |
Department
of Politics |
Breakfast of
Champions Kurt Vonnegut |
1/20, Tuesday,
6:00 pm Echols
Lounge Nazia Chowdhury nc6m@virginia.edu |
|
Sarah
Wilcox-Elliott |
Office of
the Dean of Students |
Smart Women Finish
Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams David Bach |
1/27, Tuesday, 6:00 pm Tuttle Lounge Emily Kusiak ejk9j@virginia.edu |
|
Archie
Holmes |
Charles L.
Brown Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
What We Believe but
Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of
Certainty John Brockman |
1/21,
Wednesday, 6:00 pm Webb
Lounge To be Determined |
|
Mircea Stan |
Charles L.
Brown Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
The Omnivore's
Dilemma Michael Pollan |
1/19, M,
6:00 pm Kellogg 112 |
|
Stephanie Guerlain |
Department
of Systems and Information Engineering |
Dreams from My
Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama |
1/22, Th, 6:00 pm Webb
Lounge RJ Jones rlj5h@virginia.edu |
|
Gordon
Stewart |
Department
of German |
My Century Gunther Grass |
To be
determined Christina Connor christina@virginia.edu |
|
William
(Bill) |
Department
of |
Two-Faced Racism:
Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage Leslie Houts Picca and Joe R. Feagan |
1/29,
Thursday, 6:00 pm Kellogg
112 Bilal Noor abn5n@virginia.edu |
**Facilitator will email
out exact meeting details (room number, time and dates) for each discussion
session soon**