The Loyola University Chicago Libraries Speaker Series event took place on Tuesday, February 5, 2019.  Our featured author was Loyola Professor, Elliott J. Gorn, PhD, of the Department of History.  His latest book, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till, examines the life of a 14-year-old Chicago boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi, […]

Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Speaker Series with Spencer Reece
Monday, November 13, 2017

Voices Beyond the Wall: Film Screening
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Loyola University Chicago Libraries
and the Newberry Library

Present the Fifth Annual
FOCUS ON THE BOOK

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary
of the Birth of Marie Curie

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series welcomes

Jay R. Tunney

Shaw vs Tunney

March 21, 2017

On November 7, 2016 the Loyola University Libraries welcomed Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, PhD for the Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series: 2016 Race to the White House: Its Highs, Lows, and Historical Precedents. She discussed the highs and lows of the 2016 election to consider how unprecedented this unforgettable race was and how it […]

Focus on the Book

Stephen Enniss, PhD

November 30, 2016

Friends of the Loyola Libraries
Speaker Series

2016 Race to the White House: Its Highs, Lows, and Historical Precedents

Monday, November 7, 2016

Image: [Carl Sandburg, head and shoulders portrait, facing left / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna]. (1955) [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, loc.gov/item/95517271. On April 7, 2016 the Loyola University Libraries presented: Troubadour for Our Times? A Panel Discussion on the Relevance of Carl Sandburg for Millennial Chicago featuring panelists Melissa Bradshaw (Department of […]

On April 7, 2016 the Loyola University Libraries presented: Troubadour for Our Times? A Panel Discussion on the Relevance of Carl Sandburg for Millennial Chicago featuring panelists Melissa Bradshaw (Department of English, Loyola University Chicago), Tony Fitzpatrick (artist, poet, and actor), and Bill Savage (Department of English, Northwestern University) and moderated by Robert Bucholz (Chair, […]