Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit

Lecture and Seminar Related to Libraries’ Audubon Exhibition

Monday, August 26, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin
Share
speakers
Christoph Irmscher

Christoph Irmscher

Christoph Irmscher, professor of English at Indiana University at Bloomington, will present the lecture “Lives of the Birds: Audubon and the Problems of Scientific Biography.” The lecture will be held on Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of Bird Library. It directly precedes the opening of the libraries’ fall exhibition, John James Audubon and the American Landscape.

Audubon’s colorful life, which took him from Haiti to France to the United States, has attracted almost as much attention as his life-sized portraits of birds engaged in all sorts of spectacular activities. Drawing on Audubon’s own representations of the lives of birds, in his images and his writings, as well as on his own recent attempts in the genre of life-writing, Irmscher shows how Audubon used ornithology as a form of covert autobiography.

Irmscher, a native of Germany, is widely recognized as the leading authority on Audubon. He is the editor of the Library of America edition of “Audubon’s Writings and Drawings.” He is the author of the recent biography “Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science” (2013), and of several other books on subjects ranging from natural history writing (“The Poetics of Natural History,” 1999) to the life of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (“Longfellow Redux,” 2008, and “Public Poet, Private Man,” 2009.)

His work has been supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities, most recently for summer institutes on Audubon held at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, in 2009 and 2011.

Irmscher will also present a companion mini-seminar on Sept. 6 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Special Collections Research Center on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The mini‐seminar is free and open to the public; however advance registration is required. To register, contact Barbara Brooker at bbbrooke@syr.edu or at 315‐443‐9763.

  • Author

Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

  • Recent
  • Most Read
  • Related
  • ESPN GameDay Coming to The ‘Cuse
    Saturday, February 16, 2019, By News Staff
  • WCNY-TV’s “Cycle of Health” Highlights SU Ambulance
    Friday, February 15, 2019, By mmicha04
  • Maxwell Professor McCormick Featured in USA Today, U.S. News & World Report
    Friday, February 15, 2019, By mmicha04
  • Environmental Systems Professor Quoted in Climate Change Story
    Friday, February 15, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus
  • Geology Professor Featured for SU Lava Project
    Friday, February 15, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus
  • Syracuse University Permanently Expels Theta Tau Chapter
    Saturday, April 21, 2018, By News Staff
  • Seven Syracuse Alumni Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists
    Thursday, January 5, 2017, By John Boccacino
  • Syracuse University Announces $118 Million Investment to Create a New Stadium Experience
    Monday, May 14, 2018, By News Staff
  • SU in the News: Tuesday, July 3
    Tuesday, July 3, 2012, By News Staff
  • 100 Years after WWI: The Lasting Impacts of the Great War
    Monday, July 28, 2014, By Kathleen Haley
  • Guest lecturer to address moral impact of climate change on Nov. 9
    Monday, October 22, 2012, By Rob Enslin
  • Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber to speak at SU Oct. 21
    Friday, October 15, 2010, By Michele Barrett
  • SU Humanities Center Ends Semester with Back-to-Back Programming
    Thursday, April 4, 2013, By Rob Enslin
  • Drones kick off new ‘Digital Edge Journalism’ seminar series
    Monday, January 14, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin
  • Excitement builds for ‘Common Ground for Peace’ Symposium
    Monday, October 1, 2012, By News Staff

More In Uncategorized

WCNY-TV’s “Cycle of Health” Highlights SU Ambulance

Syracuse University Ambulance was showcased in the Feb. 14 edition of WCNY-TV’s weekly Cycle of Health show. This show focused on first responders, and Syracuse University Ambulance was the lead story with a segment that lasted more than seven minutes. Cycle of…

Maxwell Professor McCormick Featured in USA Today, U.S. News & World Report

Gladys McCormick, an Assistant Professor of History in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, specializes in the political and economic history of Latin America and the Caribbean. She provided comments on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela that…

Environmental Systems Professor Quoted in Climate Change Story

Charles Driscoll, University Professor of Environmental Systems in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was interviewed by Spectrum News for the story “New report shows climate change could affect CNY.” “We’ve got pretty good climate records for Central New…

Geology Professor Featured for SU Lava Project

Jeffrey Karson, Earth Sciences Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured in NPR’s Science Friday program for the story “The Geologists who Control Lava.” In the story, Karson’s Lava Project at Syracuse University is highlighted. He explains that “we have to…

Sociology Professor Quoted in Story about U.S. Life Expectancy

Jennifer Karas Montez, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Public Policy, was quoted in the Buzzfeed News story, “US Life Expectancy Has Dropped — Again.” “New York now has a life expectancy like Denmark, while Mississippi has one…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2019 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.