Speeches

Events in Oregon, February 2010

Wednesday, February 24th – 4:00 p.m.

Lecture with Joanne Greenberg

Prolific novelist Joanne Greenberg will read from her short stories or and will discuss Jewish themes in her work, including her new novel, Miri, Who Charms. Greenberg is probably best known for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (first published in 1964 under the pseudonym Hannah Green) and In This Sign. Her novels with Jewish themes include The King’s Persons (1963) and A Season of Delight (1981).

Free and open to the public.

Knight Browsing Room
Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St., UO campus, Eugene, OR

For further information, contact Heidi Gese, (541) 346-5288, heidi@uoregon.edu


Thursday, February 25
Joanne Greenberg
Reading (Free and open to the public)
Thursday, Feb 25, 6:30 PM -Psychology Building Auditorium 105

Joanne Greenberg’s most recent publication is Miri, Who Charms (2009), a novel that delineates female friendship from the teen years through motherhood and careers. An internationally known, prize-winning writer, Greenberg is the author of fourteen novels and four collections of short stories. Her second novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964), is a classic, poignant representation of recovery from schizophrenia which was translated into numerous other languages, made into a movie, and re-issued in 2009 with a new afterword by the author. Her novel, In This Sign (1970), broke new ground in the representation of the deaf.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the President of Reed College.

For further information, please contact:

Prof. Gail Sherman
503-777-7278
Department of English
Reed College Portland Oregon


Friday, February 26 – Joanne Greenberg will be reading from her work and discussing Jewish themes in her writing at Portland State University, noon. Free and open to the public.

For further information, please contact:

Prof. Michael Weingrad
Academic Director, The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
Portland State University
Post Office Box 751
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751
Phone: (503) 725-3085


Jewish Arts Month 2010

Sunday, February 28 – 7:00 PM

Joanne Greenberg: An Evening with A Master Story Teller

Many of us first met Joanne Greenberg in high school when we read I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Some of us read it more than once! Joanne will delight an intimate audience of 50 adults with stories intended for a mature crowd. These aren’t stories intended for young ears….This is a remarkable opportunity!

http://www.northwestjewishartists.org/JAMcalendar2010.html
Location: Oregon Jewish Museum
1953 Northwest Kearney Street
Portland, OR 97209-3925
Phone: (503) 226-3600

Tickets: $10 at the door


ISPS Conference October 2009
Maryland


Story telling August 30, 2009
Miners’ Alley Playhouse
1224 Washington St, Suite 200
Golden, CO 80401-1145


Book Group Appearance August 2009
Guffey, CO