News & Events

Thursday, May 4, 2006
by: Catherine A. Phelan

"A Celebration of the Life and Work of Joseph Mitchell" will be held in Jubilee Hall Auditorium on May 13 at 10 a.m.

On Saturday, May 13 The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture,with generous support from the Earhart Foundation, will host “A Celebration of the Life and Work of Joseph Mitchell - the Prose-Poet of New York Life” at Seton Hall University, Jubilee Hall Auditorium from10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

The event will feature opening remarks by Dermot Quinn, D.Phil (Oxon), professor of History at Seton Hall University, discussing “Joseph Mitchell and the Free Life” followed by professor Kenneth T. Jackson, director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History, and editor of numerous scholarly works. He will speak on thetopic of “Joseph Mitchell’s New York: The Life of the City, 1929-1996.”

Andrew J. Willner, executive director of NY/NJ BAYKEEPER, will read from Joseph Mitchell’s The Bottom of the Harbor. Professor Daniel H.Strait of Asbury College will discuss “Making Room at McSorley’sWonderful Saloon” followed by a panel discussion with Nancy Franklin, Calvin Trillin, Mark Singer and Adam Gopnik, all writers from The NewYorker Magazine, on “Remembering Joe Mitchell’s Sixty Years at The NewYorker.” Rev. Ian Boyd, president of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and editor of The Chesterton Review, will offer closing remarks.

For the past 30 years, The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture has convened conferences world-wide on topics of faith andculture. The institute, a not-for-profit educational organization in corporated in the United States and Great Britain, is located atSeton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., and it has an office in Oxford, U.K. Its purpose is to promote the thought of G.K. Chesterton and his circle and, more broadly, to explore the application of Chestertonian ideas in the contemporary world. Chesterton’s call for adeepened moral and social imagination speaks to the cultural crises ofour own time. The Chesterton Review is the journal of The G.K.Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and has recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1974, the journal promotes interest in all aspects of Chesterton’s life, work, art and ideas including his Christian apologetics. The Chesterton Review is published in both print and electronic versions.

For subscription information please contact Gloria Garafulich-Grabois at (973) 275-2341 or e-mail chestertoninstitute@shu.edu.

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Danute Nourse
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