White Plains Public Library
Library Info
The White Plains Public Library is a dynamic, civic resource. Its mission is to enable all members of our community to engage in lifelong learning, find inspiration and build citizenship by providing:
free and open access to recorded knowledge, personal guidance in its use, and diverse opportunities for cultural exchange and exploration of ideas.
Through the planning and action of the staff and Trustees, the Library will: play a vigorous role in the life of the City by serving as a center for informational, educational, cultural and recreational enrichment; encourage full public use of the total range of library services; offer an up-to-date collection of books, magazines other print and non-book materials and online resources that are carefully selected, systematically arranged, and aggressively promoted; carry out its program of services in a comfortable, attractive, and safe Library building and grounds.
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Program Scholar
Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics
New York University
Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics at New York University, works mainly on Roman ideas about communication, education, and governance, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. After studying classics at Princeton (A.B. 1991) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1997), she taught at the University of Washington (Seattle) and Stanford University before coming to NYU in 2004.
Her first book, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue, is under contract with Duckworth Press. She has written articles on Roman political theory, elegiac and pastoral poetry, rhetorical education, and the seventeenth century reception of classical literature and political thought, and her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Women’s Review of Books, Bookforum, and TLS. Part of a future project on ethics and literary interpretation, her edition of Wilkie Collins’ nineteenth century classic detective novel The Moonstone was published in 2005. Forthcoming work includes essays on the exemplarity of Rome in eighteenth century American education, the framing of ethical choice in Vergil’s Aeneid, and the relation of torture and justice in early imperial Roman rhetoric.
Professor Connolly teaches undergraduate courses on ancient political theory, Roman cultural identity, and a course in NYU’s core curriculum, “Conversations of the West.” Current and recent graduate seminars have tackled Greek and Roman rhetoric, Latin pastoral poetry, and the nature of Roman republicanism. She held a post-doctoral fellowship in Latin literature at Stanford in 1999 and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values in Princeton University in 2003. As leader of a working research group generously funded by the Teagle Foundation, she plans to edit a book on the contemporary role of the liberal arts in educating democratic citizens. Other projects for the future include a book on the emergence of Athens and Rome as ideal states, and an essay on anti-democratic and anti-intellectual trends in American public discourse.
Events
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Previous Events
Reading Group
Join program scholar Professor Joy Connolly for a reading group!
Lavinia by Ursula LeGuin (2008)
We’ll explore this compelling, lyrical novel in which the author gives voice and power to the King’s daughter as she considers her choice of suitors. A modern version of Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
Contact Barbara Wenglin at 914-422-1486 to RSVP or to gain more information
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December 01 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Reading Group
Join program scholar Professor Joy Connolly for a reading group!
Walden: or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
We’ll compare the heroic quests of Achilles and Wayne’s Ethan Howard with Thoreau’s experiment in self-sustaining, independent rural life
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
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November 10 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Film Screening & Discussion
Join program scholar Professor Joy Connolly for a film screening and discussion!
Film Discussion on The Searchers, directed by John Ford
The Searchers (1956) John Ford’s complex masterpiece, a modern Iliad, starring John Wayne as Ethan Howard, with Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond & Natalie Wood at the White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
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November 01 2009 at 01:30 PM
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Reading Group
Join program scholar Professor Joy Connolly for a reading group!
Homer’s Iliad, Books 1, 3, 16, 18, & 24, in the Stanley Lombardo translation at the White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
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October 13 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Reading Group
Join program scholar Professor Joy Connolly for a reading group!
Introduction – Ten Reasons to Read Homer: an overview of the series at the White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
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October 04 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Acting Workshop
Join us for an Acting Workshop at the White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
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June 06 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Iliad Performance
Join us for a performance of Homer's Iliad at the White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave., White Plains, NY 10601
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April 18 2009 at 02:30 PM
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This library is focusing on the thematic unit “Nothing in Excess: Crossing Boundaries”
