Grolier Film Screening & Discussion at NEU

When:
Thursday, Oct 17, 2019 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Alumni Center at Northeastern University
716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02120

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Admission:
$10

Categories:
Film, Food, Meetup, Nightlife, Party, Social Good, University

Event website:
https://cvent.me/mq494a

A documentary of a one-room poetry bookshop, which has been in existence over 90 years. It is a legendary literary place that the world must encounter.
View trailer here : https://youtu.be/M0Q3CnIzrH8


Event Speakers:
Weiying Olivia Huang, Filmmaker
Independent filmmaker Olivia Huang is a Chinese native and has worked in China and the U.S. for the past few years as a filmmaker and graphic designer. Her first film and capstone project, Grolier Poetry Book Shop: The Last Sacred Place of Poetry, has been screened in multiple film festivals including the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival. She is currently producing her second film Above the Free Walls—The Modica Way. Huang holds a Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media from Northeastern University.


Mary Loeffelholz, Opening Remarks


Mary Loeffelholz is Dean of the College of Professional Studies and Vice President of the LifeLong Learning Network at Northeastern University. She has been a member of the Northeastern community as a faculty member and administrator for nearly 30 years.  Her leadership in academic and faculty affairs spans seventeen years in a variety of roles, including eight years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, during which led the university’s efforts to develop innovative ways to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers and to enhance the careers of full-time, nontenured-track faculty members.
She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and of four books, including The Value of Emily Dickinson, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.  She is the editor of The Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson (2008) and (since 2006) of Volume D, 1914-1945, of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. She was chair of the Northeastern Department of English from 2001-2006.
She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Yale.


October 17, 2019 , 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Address:
Alumni Center at Northeastern University
716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02120

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