Please consider joining K-State First at one of these lectures (one-hour each) to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
(1) The first speaker will be on campus Friday, September 21st. Professor Beverly Lyon Clark will be speaking at 4:00 pm in the Flint Hills Room at the Union on “The Littlest Woman? Picturing Alcott’s Artistic Amy.” This will be a scholarly but accessible examination of different illustrators’ perspectives on Amy March. Students who have not yet read Little Women would find the presentation engaging and memorable.
(2) The second scheduled speaker, Professor Anne Boyd Rioux, will be speaking on Friday, October 5th, at 4:00 pm in the Tadtman Boardroom in the Alumni Center. Her presentation, drawn from her new monograph Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: Little Women and Why It Still Matters, which has just been published by Norton (August 2018), will address, among other topics, recent film and other adaptations of the novel. Like Professor Clark’s talk, it will be accessible and relevant, even to listeners unfamiliar with Alcott’s novel.
Please see the flyer below and join us in welcoming these speakers to K-State.
Best wishes,
Gregory Eiselein
Director of K-State First