PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 10, 2008

CONTACT: Eric Linquist
301/314-7266
ericl@umd.edu

College Park, MD – The University of Maryland is hosting a Special Event dedicated to the depiction of war in literature. "War In Literature: Public Readings" will take place on Veterans Day, November 11th. There will be public reading of war literatures as the event will try to re-live the experiences of war for other people or other times.

Dean James Harris will open the day at 9:00 am with a reading from Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen. Then, students, faculty, and staff will continue reading throughout the day until 11:00 pm. The event is open to the public and will encompass authors from a broad selection of poets, dramatists, essayists, and authors across time and place including Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Yeats, Twain, among many, many others.

The event will be located at 6137 McKeldin Library. Please visit the library's website - http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/warreadings.html - for a detailed schedule. Contact Eric Lindquist (ericl@umd.edu) or Yelena Luckert (yluckert@umd.edu) for more information.

The University of Maryland is the only nationally ranked public university in the Baltimore/Washington area. With a total student enrollment approaching 40,000, the University is supported in its academic endeavors by the University of Maryland Libraries, comprised of eight libraries and more than 3.5 million volumes.