Upcoming author appearances

Among the highlights for this season:

Tuesday, July 16, 6 p.m. — Jean Harfenist will read from "A Brief History of The Flood" at University Book Store, 711 State St.

Tuesday, July 16, 7 p.m. — John Beckman will read from "Winter Zoo" at Canterbury Booksellers, 315 W. Gorham St.

Wednesday, July 17, 6 p.m. — Author Chuck Palahniuk will read from his novel "Choke" at University Book Store, 711 State St.

Thursday, July 18, 6 p.m. — Author Nick McDonell will read from his novel "Twelve: A Novel" at University Book Store, 711 State St.

Thursday, July 18, 6:30 p.m. — C.C. Carter will read from her book of poems, "Body Language," at A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 307 W. Johnson St.

Thursday, July 18, 7 p.m. — Greg Willard, a popular local host on WORT, will read his poetry at Canterbury Booksellers, 315 W. Gorham St.

Thursday, July 18, 7:30 p.m. — Patricia McConnell, a popular animal behaviorist and radio co-host of the public radio animal behavior advice show, "Calling All Pets," will read from her new book "The Other End of the Leash" at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 7433 Mineral Point Rd.

Friday, July 19, 6:30 p.m. — Jessica Brown, a contributor to "That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts," will host an open mic for women to share stories of fearless and gutsy feats at A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 307 W. Johnson St.

Saturday, July 20, 2 p.m. — Local author and diversity consultant John Yancey Odom will lead a discussion on the economic state of black Americans as part of the Sam's Salon series at Samantha's Cafe, 2701 University Ave. His latest book "Saving Black America: An Economic Plan for Civil Rights" will be available for purchase.

Tuesday, July 23, 6 p.m. — Author Elizabeth Stuckey-French will read from her novel "Mermaids on The Moon" on at University Book Store, 711 State St.

Tuesday, July 23, 7 p.m. — Buddhist Khachab Rinpoche — who recently established a new center called Rime Shedrub Ling in Madison where he teaches meditation and philosophy in graduated levels — will discuss the Four Noble Truths at Canterbury Booksellers, 315 W. Gorham St.

Tuesday, July 23, 7 p.m. — Authors Jack P. Hailman and Elizabeth D. Hailman will deliver a slide show and reading from their book "Backpacking Wisconsin" at REI, 7483 West Towne Way.

Wednesday, July 24, 7 p.m. — American-born Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron will discuss her new book "Working with Anger," which discusses the self-destructive power of anger and hatred, at Borders Book Shop West, 3416 University Ave.

Thursday, July 25, 7 p.m. — Author Larry Cohen will read from "Mom, They're Teasing Me and Playful Parenting" at Canterbury Booksellers, 315 W. Gorham St.

Sunday, July 28, 11 a.m. — Mystery author Dorothy Cannell will talk about her work on the Booked for Murder Mystery Train. For more information, visit Booked for Murder's Web site.

Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 p.m. — Author Linda Harper will read from and discuss her book "Give To Your Heart's Content: Without Giving Yourself Away" at A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 307 W. Johnson St.

Thursday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. — Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will deliver a lecture titled, "Lincoln: The Great Emancipator?", in Great Hall, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. — , The symposium "Women and Science" will feature Alison Wylie, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, Meg Lowman, Executive Director of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, and Eleanor Baum, Dean of Engineering at Cooper Union in New York City in the On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym, 716 Langdon St. Caitilyn Allen, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology and Women's Studies at UW - Madison, will moderate.

Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. — Houston Baker, the Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Professor of English at Duke University, will present the lecture "Remembering Race: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Betrayal of Black Intellectuals" in Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.

Thursday, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m. — Amy Gutmann, Provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will discuss "Identity Group Politics in Democracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" in Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.

Thursday, Dec. 5, 3:30-5:30 p.m., 7:30-9:30 p.m. — A two-part program titled "Rembrandt and the Jews" will be held from in room L160 Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave. Speakers include Miriam Bodian, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University, Shelley Perlove, Professor of Art History and Director of the Museum Studies Program at University of Michigan-Dearborn, Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History at University of Pennsylvania, and Daniel Swetschinski, historian and author of "Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam."

Thursday, January 30, 2003, 7:30 p.m. — Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the Divinity School at University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture titled, "Sex and Gender in the Kamasutra," in Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall.

Thursday, March 6, 2003, 7:30 p.m. — Marjorie Garber, the Professor of English and Director the Humanities Center at Harvard University, will deliver the lecture "Thinking Outside of the 'Thinking Outside of the Box' Box" in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.

April 7 - 13, 2003 — The second biannual Humanities Week, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois Centennial, will feature keynote speakers Henry Louis Gates, the Du Bois Professor of Humanities at Harvard University, and David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Du Bois.

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 7:30 p.m. — Alexander Nehamas, the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton, will present a lecture titled "Virtues of Admiration: Aesthetics, Art and the Rest of Life," in the On Wisconsin Room of the Red Gym, 716 Langdon St.

Thursday, May 8, 2003, 7:30 p.m. — Danielle Allen, Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literatures, Political Science, the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and a 2001 MacArthur winner, will deliver the lecture "Talking to Strangers: On Citizenship and Trust," in Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.

Thursday, June 23, 7:30 p.m. — Heather Lee Schroeder will read from her forthcoming novel "My Life at The Capital Times" at A Room of One's Own, --.