Nieman Lecture Features Dorothy Day Editor

"Dorothy Day: A Radical, a Journalist, a Saint for Our Time"


Robert Ellsberg

Thursday, October 2, 2008

4-5:30 p.m.

Raynor Library Conference Center
Beaumier Suites B-C (Lower Level)

Dorothy Day is widely regarded as the most influential lay person in the history of American Catholicism.  She was proposed for sainthood in 1983 and the Vatican officially accepted her cause for canonization in 2000 when it bestowed upon her the formal title, "Servant of God." Day's diaries were closed to researchers until November 29, 2005, the 25th anniversary of her death.


Robert Ellsberg, publisher and editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, spent five years (1975-1980) at the New York City Catholic Worker community, editing the newspaper and learning from Dorothy Day. Ellsberg graduated from Harvard College with a degree in religion and literature and earned a Masters in Theology (ThM) from the Harvard Divinity School.  His most recent book is The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day (Marquette University Press, 2008).  He is also the author and editor of: By Little and By Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day (Knopf, 1983); Blessed among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for our Time (Crossroad, 2005); and All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses of Our Time (Crossroad, 1997).  He is currently working on a second volume of the Day project, selected letters.

The event is free and open to all.  A Marquette ID card is required to enter Raynor Library; members of the general public are welcome, but seating is limited and pre-registration is preferred. Phone (414-288-5901) or e-mail Matt Blessing with questions about the event.

Mr. Ellsberg's  delivery of the 2008 Lucius W. Nieman Lecture is sponsored by the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication.

Dorothy Day: The Duty of Delight book cover

 

Photo of Robert Ellsberg

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