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4:30 pm
Micheal Longley and David Ferry: A Dialogue In & About Poetry at the Poetry Center, 3rd floor of Sawyer Library
The Suffolk University English Department and The Poets' Theater are thrilled to host a dialogue in & about poetry with world-renowned poets and scholars Michael Longley (traveling all the way from Ireland!) and David Ferry, Suffolk University’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar. This event is free and open to the public. Coffee and tea will available. […]
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The Piracy Paradigm: Copyright Technology and What Happens When a Book is No Longer a “Book” at Boston Athenæum
The Piracy Paradigm: Copyright, Technology, and What Happens When a Book No Longer is a "Book" with K. Matthew Dames From the time the English Parliament passed the Licensing of the Press Act in 1662 to the current United States Copyright Act of 1976, copyright's history and role have been inextricably bound to the history […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.