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Test your engineering skills by entering the Extreme Gingerbread House Challenge, where you and your friends can design and construct a gingerbread structure to stun the judges and endure a simulated earthquake!

RSVP here: https://library.georgetown.edu/event/fri-12062024-1200/extreme-gingerbread-house-challenge-build-shake-survive

Need a book that we don’t have? Don’t know where to start your research? Or just having trouble logging in?

You may not know it, but there's a whole team on call ready to help.

It doesn’t run on servers across the country–it mostly runs on coffee and sandwiches from across the street. And while you may not need our help this early in the semester, we’ll be there, in person and online, ready to answer any questions you have about using the library from your first steps on campus until your last off the commencement stage.

They're here for you because they're here for every Hoya.

Chat, email, or book a consultation with a librarian at tinyurl.com/GULibHelp or call 202-687-7607!

Join Lattes & Lit Book Club for our discussion of The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez on Tuesday, November 19, at 4 p.m.! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/LattesAlvarez

The club will meet in the Idea Lab on the 1st floor of Lauinger Library for a meeting co-hosted with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in collaboration with the Georgetown University Library and the Midnight Mug.

About the book:

The Cemetery of Untold Stories follows Alma Cruz, a renowned writer determined not to follow the fate of a fellow novelist friend who pushed herself so hard to complete a book that it nearly drove her mad.

When Alma inherits a small piece of land in the Dominican Republic, she comes up with a creative plan to transform it into a resting place for her unfinished stories. Here, she buries the characters and drafts that she couldn’t fully realize, though their presence still lingers in her mind.

Alma hopes to let these characters finally rest, but they have other plans. They begin to speak up, sometimes to Alma and sometimes to each other, revising their fates and continuing to evolve. Filomena, a local woman Alma hires to care for the grounds, becomes a confidante to the characters' unsung stories.

The Casey-McIlvane Lecture Fund presents “Searching for Hannah Crafts: The First African American Woman Novelist,” a lecture by Prof. Gregg Hecimovich, on November 7 at 5 p.m. in the Murray Room on Lauinger Library’s fifth floor.

In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown.

Over a decade later, Prof. Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author’s name and, in his book, “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” he finally tells her life story. In this talk, Dr. Hecimovich will trace his journey of discovery to uncover the multi-generational story of America’s first Black woman novelist.

Gregg Hecimovich is professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina and a Non-Resident Fellow of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. He received his PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and elsewhere.

The world of global affairs is at your fingertips through the library.

Georgetown students, faculty, and staff now have full access to Foreign Policy magazine.

Visit tinyurl.com/FPatGU to learn how you can access FP on and off campus through Hoyasearch and the FP mobile app.

Watch the author of "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" speak to Georgetown students and come to Lauinger's fifth floor this Friday, October 18, at 4 p.m. to discuss the book with Lattes and Lit book club!

Shehan Karunatilaka | 2024-2025 Readings and Talks On October 1, 2024, the Lannan Center hosted a reading and talk featuring writer Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Tope Folarin, Lannan Visiting Lecturer…

Lattes and Lit Book Club is teaming up with the South Asian Society and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice to host a discussion of the 2022 Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida!”

Set in 1990s Sri Lanka, “Seven Moons” tells the story of a murdered photographer given one week during which he can travel between the afterlife and the real world to solve the mystery of his own death.

Our meeting will take place in the Murray Room on Lauinger’s fifth floor in partnership with the Midnight Mug. Group discusssion will be facilitated by Tope Folarin, the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. As usual, it will be open to all Georgetown students, faculty, and staff!

Learn more and RSVP here: https://library.georgetown.edu/event/fri-10182024-1200/lattes-and-lit-discussion-seven-moons-maali-almeida-shehan-karunatilaka #:~:text=Lattes%20and%20Lit%20discussion%20of,Shehan%20Karunatilaka%20%7C%20Georgetown%20University%20Library

Chef. Restaurateur. Humanitarian.

The Georgetown University Library is proud to present the 2024 Tanous Family Endowed Lecture speaker, José Andrés.

The world-renowned culinary personality will address the Hoya community in conversation with Provost Robert Groves in Gaston Hall on October 8, 2024 at 5 p.m.

For more information on attending, visit tinyurl.com/AndresAtGU

Want to learn how to get registered and ready to vote, all while making furry friends?

Come down to the Lauinger lobby next week, get acquainted with beloved therapy dogs Keeva and Penny, and learn how you can get registered in DC or your home state!

If you can't make it, you can still learn how to register at bit.ly/guvotes

Thank you to Marino Workshop author Omar El-Akkad for delivering a wonderful address to our first year undergraduate students last week!

After hearing lessons and experiences from his career, more than 100 students got to meet with El-Akkad and get their copies of his novel “What Strange Paradise” signed at our Open House.

Along the way, they got to learn more about the library, grab some “ I

Have no fear! This summer, the Lattes and Lit book club is tackling Dostoevsky's 360,000-word epic "The Brothers Karamazov" with monthly discussions over Zoom.

RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/BrothersKSummer and you'll receive updates about what pages to read and invites to every meeting!

It's that time of year! Join us in celebrating books, art, and culture with this creative contest where participants submit edible art projects made to resemble books or are inspired by a story or book title.

The only rule: submissions must be made of edible materials and have something to do with a book(s), in shape or concept.

There is no fee to enter or attend; however, advance registration for entrants is required.

Register today at library.georgetown.edu/edible-books

Chris Kenny (MA English, ’23) had never heard of Paul Muldoon when his professor approached him about curating a collection of his work. The experience would prove to be an extraordinary literary experience.

https://library.georgetown.edu/news/grad-student-guest-curates-exhibition-famed-poet-paul-muldoon?fbclid=IwAR2pVgMAFqH6YRzgfUfSPt7m2cxQTkbld7nCAQMhVO5vLdBbz863YvBF0YQ

“Women don’t need capacity, they need visibility.”

This week, Georgetown honored Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and women’s rights advocate who played a major role in ending the Second Liberian Civil War, with an honorary degree.

In 2021, Gbowee was interviewed as part of "Profiles in Peace," an oral history collection by Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security sharing insights from women and their allies on the frontlines of global peace and security work.

Profiles in Peace Oral History Collection | Georgetown University Library The Profiles in Peace Oral History Project shares the critical and personal insights from women and their allies on the frontlines of peace and security work globally, from the grassroots to the national and international arena.