T
he scope of ALBA’s autumn cal-endar reveals both our amazinggrowth and organizationalprogress that will carry the story ofthe Lincoln Brigade and the SpanishCivil War to new educational arenasfrom San Diego, California, toWashington Square, New York, fromTampa, Florida, to Chicago andAllentown, Pennsylvania. With twoexhibitions on tour, the unveiling of anew monument, and star speakers likeE.L. Doctorow on the agenda, thisfall’s programs anticipate larger audi-ences than ever before. Just after the anniversary ofSeptember 11, Muhlenberg College’sCenter for Ethics and Leadership inAllentown is sponsoring a week-longseries of programs on the theme“Patriotism in a Global Era: TheBoundaries of Home.” ALBA’s cele- brated photography show,
The Auraof the Cause
, will be the featured cul-tural event in the college’s Martin ArtGallery for the fall semester. OnSeptember 18, ALBA Chair PeterCarroll presents the keynote speech“Global Intervention and MoralChoice: The Legacy of the AbrahamLincoln Brigade.” For more informa-tion, contact Marjorie Hass, Directorof the Center for Ethics andLeadership, 484-664-3321.The same week, ALBA’s newesttraveling museum exhibition,
TheyStill Draw Pictures: Children’s Art inWartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo
, will open its national tourat the Mandeville Special CollectionsLibrary at the University of California,San Diego. Consisting of 78 colordrawings by Spanish refugee childrenand 22 by children of later conflicts,the show also includes photographs by Robert Capa and posters thatdepict the youngest victims of war-fare. For more information, contact theUCSD library, 858-534-2533.The catalogue for
They Still DrawPictures
, which includes a foreword byHarvard psychologist Robert Colesand essays by ALBA’s Anthony Geist,is available at a discount at the ALBAwebsite bookshelf:www.alba-valb.org.After the premier in San Diego,the exhibition will tour the east coastand the midwest during 2003.Back on the east coast, the award-winning, best-selling novelist
E. L.Doctorow
, author of
Ragtime
,
World’sFair
,
Billy Bathgate
, and
The Book of Daniel,
highlights the 5thannual
ALBA-Bill Susman Lecture
on FridayOctober 18, 6:15 pm, at the TishmanAuditorium, New York UniversityLaw School, 40 Washington SquareSouth between MacDougal andThompson Streets. The program is co-sponsored by NYU’s King Juan CarlosI of Spain Center. Admission is freeand open to the public. For moreinformation, call 212-998-3650.Since its inception in 1998, theALBA-Susman Lecture has featured aroster of prominent speakers, includ-ing the classicist Bernard Knox,historian Gabriel Jackson, JudgeBaltasar Garzón, and poet PhilipLevine. The lecture honors ALBA’sfounder, the Lincoln veteran BillSusman.The next day, Saturday October19, 2 pm, ALBA and the Juan CarlosCenter are also co-sponsoring a publicprogram,
The Wound and the Dream
,featuring
Cary Nelson
’s newest book,an anthology of U.S. poetry about theSpanish Civil War. The site is theGreenberg Lounge, New YorkUniversity Law School, 40Washington Square South betweenMacDougal and Thompson Streets.This program is supported by the
New York Council for theHumanities.
Plans are also set to unveil
a newmonument
honoring the volunteerswho went to Spain from the regionaround
Tampa, Florida,
at a site infront of the Centro Asturiano in YborCityon November 2. The stone usedfor the memorial was shipped fromSpain. For more information, contactWilly Garcia at 813-224-9185.Meanwhile, on the 66thanniver-sary of the arrival of the InternationalBrigades in Spain, our
ChicagoFriends of the Lincoln Brigade
arelaunching a new organization,
CFLB/ALBA Associates,
with a fullcultural program including CaryNelson speaking about U.S. poetryand the Spanish Civil War at
Roosevelt University
on VeteransDay, November 11. For more detailsand information, contact MartaNicholas, 773-288-1538 or emailChuck and Bobby Hall atyfhall@mindspring.com.
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