Reading is Sexy Calendar @EmmeRogers Launch Party on Dec 3rd
Yes, that beautiful building you see to your left, IS a library. More precisely, it’s Koerner Library, the place where I spent many of my mornings, mid-days, afternoons and evenings. The location where you could find me photocopying journal articles, scouring many shelves trying to find the latest issue of many academic journals.
It was at the Koerner Library that I found many interesting journals (including International Environmental Agreements, Environmental Politics, Canadian Public Policy, etc), and where I pored over thousands of book chapters and read hundreds of books. Because, you know, not only is knowledge power but also, Reading Is Sexy.
Coincidentally, that’s the name of the calendar produced by Ahimsa Media and to which I was invited to participate by the always delightful Emme Rogers. It’s the same calendar where yours truly and a number of other wonderful local personalities have posed (in my case, in a lab coat with the gorgeous Shannon Falls as the background). My photo adorns the month of April given its relevance to my research (April 22nd is Earth Day).
The book I am reading during the photo shoot (by talented local photographer and social media maven Tris Hussey, a good friend of mine) is by California State University San Marcos’ Professor Vivienne Bennett, another good friend of mine and (like me) a scholar of Mexican water policy. Her book, The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico, is an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of urban water governance in the northern industrial city of Monterrey. I chose this book because its subject matter is one of the closest to one of my most recent completed research projects on water and wastewater governance in the Lerma-Chapala river basin in Mexico.
At the launch party (which Emme is organizing at Gudrun’s in Steveston) this Thursday December 3rd, I will be reading a short excerpt of the book that came out of my Lerma-Chapala research project (the book is currently in press). Since it will be a new talk (I don’t expect that we will be talking for long, and besides, it’s a party) I would strongly encourage you to come, particularly if you want to hear me speak about what I do in my academic research (instead of the many times where you might get the chance to hear me speak about social media!)
The details (and RSVP) for the launch party are on Facebook. Register soon!
Related posts:
- Sexy Laundry (theatre review) – Guest post by @EmmeRogers
- Launch Party Vancouver 9
- Win a Reading is Sexy Calendar!
- Donating my books to non-profit reading rooms/libraries in need
- “Party is my name and sexy is my game”
reading IS sexy – i love it! i wish i could go but i’ve got another holdiay party that night.
i remember as a kid i used to stay up so late reading in bed with a flashlight. my mom would come into the room and i would get in trouble for not sleeping! i spent countless hours in libraries throughout my youth.
Did I tell you how HOT you were as those scientific prose poured from your mouth this past Thursday? grrrrwwwww Did I also mention I am running on no sleep again? Which, aside from the sexiness of a literary man, is probably why I’ve decided to release rolling r’s vibrating from my chest out on to your blog.
Love you!
Emme xoxo