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 Spring Celebration of the Arts -
Student Reading and ReceptionWednesday, May 28, 2008
3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
The Dr. Milton H. Saier, Sr. Memorial Awards Fund was established at UCSD to
support an annual awards program for the Departments of
Music,
Theatre and Dance,
Literature, and
Biology. Each year, the Department of
Literature is given funds for an award to acknowledge outstanding creative
writing by an undergraduate student. Stewart Prize in Poetry.
The Stewart Prize was established in recognition of John L. Stewart, Founding
Provost of John Muir College. The prize
administered and funded by the Council of Provosts and the Department of
Literature is $300. John Stewart was a Literature professor, as well as provost
of the second college, and his move to UCSD from Dartmouth opened the way for
the UCSD/Dartmouth Exchange Program. Among his accomplishments were: overseeing
the development of the departments Music and Visual Arts, overseeing the
building of Mandeville Auditorium, and performing in The Moldy Figs – an
impromptu group of UCSD jazz lovers. The Stewart Prize was originally
established in this department for entries in all forms of creative writing,
except playwriting. Good writing, whatever the form, was the basis of the award.
Early in Spring, quarter undergraduate students are alerted to the contest via
email, in class announcements and flyers. The competition is now limited to
poetry (5 poems maximum) and open to all undergraduate students. The Department
Executive Committee appoints faculty members to serve as judges, and after the
submissions deadline, the winner is determined and announced at the annual
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6:00 p.m. Calit2 Auditorium at Atkinson Hall with a Live Webcast at http://calit2.net/webcast Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya in 1938 into a large peasant family. As an adolescent, he lived through the Mau Mau war of Independence, the central historical episode in the making of modern Kenya and a major theme in his early works. Ngugi's first major play, The Black Hermit, was performed at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in 1962. While an Associate Professor of Literature and the Chairman of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi in 1977, he was arrested and imprisoned without charge in a maximum security prison for his critique of the inequalities and injustices of Kenyan society. In prison, Ngugi wrote the novel Caitaani Mutharabaini, later translated in English as Devil on the Cross. He also wrote down notes that later became the basis of his memoir, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary. After Amnesty International named him a Prisoner of Conscience, an international campaign secured his release a year later. He received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, University of Leeds, and an honorary doctorate in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Transkei. Ngugi is now Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation. Since his appointment at UC Irvine, Ngugi has been awarded the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Cabinet by the International Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzu International Research Centre in Italy. In his current novel, Wizard of the Crow, he explores issues of globalization. Ngugi's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Free and Open to the Public...Reception Following Talk Live webcast at http://calit2.net/webcast Please contact jchiggin@ucsd.edu at least 3 days prior to this event to request any necessary reasonable accommodations to enable your access and participation. Walking Directions to Atkinson Hall & map: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/directions/pdf/UCSD_map_Calit2.pdf |
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Graduate Students in the
Literature Department Present
