Library Events
Michigan Writers Series - Campus Authors
Fall Semester 2009
Admission: Free
Location : North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library
Tuesday, October 13, 5:00 pm EDT- Book Discussion and Panel
In coordination with the MSU American Indian Studies Program, the Library's Michigan Writers Series-Campus Authors presents book discussion and panel with:
Heather A. Howard, assistant professor of anthropology at Michigan State University and coeditor of Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities (2009).
Susan Applegate Krouse, associate professor of anthropology and the director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University and coeditor of Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities (2009).
Susan Lobo, distinguished visiting scholar in American Indian Studies at University of Arizona and author of Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana. Tucson (2009), as well as coeditor of Native American Voices, Third Edition (2010).
Kimberli A. Lee, assistant professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University and author of "I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter":The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965 (2009).
Mindy J. Morgan, associate professor of anthropology and the acting director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University, and author of The Bearer of this Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (2009).
Susan Sleeper-Smith, professor of history at Michigan State University, and editor of Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World (2009) and Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives (2009).
A brief reception will follow the panel discussion.
Wednesday, October 21, 4:30 pm EDT- Leonard Fleck
Leonard Fleck, Department of Philosophy and The Center for Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences
Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation (2009)
What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put limits on health care spending? In Just Caring , Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today.