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Events
Monday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Yarborough Branch, Austin Public Library
2200 Hancock Dr., 78756
- Book discussion led by UT Professor of History Toyin Falola. Professor Falola is a leading scholar of West African history and the author and editor of numerous books, including The Power of African Cultures and Christianity and Social Change in Africa.
Thursday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Carver Branch, Austin Public Library
1161 Angelina, 78702
- Book discussion led by UT Professor of English Barbara Harlow. Professor Harlow specializes in the literature of human rights and in Middle Eastern and African Studies. Her authored and edited books include Resistance Literature, African Writers and Their Readers, and Archives of Empire: The Scramble for Africa.
Thursday, April 10 at 7:30pm,
University Hills Branch, Austin Public Library
4721 Loyola Ln., 78723
- University Hills Branch book club discussion of A Long Way Gone
Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Hampton Branch at Oak Hill
5125 Convict Hill Rd., 78749
- Oak Hill Branch book club discussion of A Long Way Gone
Monday, April 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse
1120 South Lamar, 78704
- Free screening of Cry Freetown and What's Going On, documentaries on child soldiers and the conflict in Sierra Leone, followed by panel discussion and Q & A featuring academic and community leaders. Event hosted and introduced by Mayor Will Wynn.
Wednesday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Manchaca Branch, Austin Public Library
5500 Manchaca Rd., 78745
- Book discussion led by UT Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jemima Pierre. Professor Pierre is an affiliate of the Center for African and African American Studies and a specialist in the African diaspora.
Friday, April 25 at 6:00p.m.
Meet the Author with Mayor Will Wynn
City Hall Atrium and Council Chambers
301 W. 2nd St., 78701
- 6:00 p.m. Author Reception with live music, refreshments, and book signing
- 7:00 p.m. A conversation and Q & A with author Ishmael Beah, hosted and moderated by UT Dean of Undergraduate Studies Paul Woodruff. Dean Woodruff is a professor of philosophy and the author of many books that explore issues of ethics and aesthetics from the ancient Greeks to the modern world, including Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature, and Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue.
Visit our previous Mayor's Book Club resource guides online:
Spring 2007: Around The Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Spring 2006: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Spring 2005: Writing Austin's Lives by Metro Austin Residents
Spring 2004: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Spring 2003: Holes by Louis Sachar
Spring 2002: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
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