From faculty book talks to a staged reading exploring the story of Jonas Salk and Pitt’s polio vaccine team, spring events hosted by University Library System highlight the work of Pitt faculty, archivists and doctoral students. All events are free and open to the public.

Faculty Book Talks

Christina Hoenig, director of graduate studies and the graduate program in classics, philosophy and ancient science in the Department of Classics, kicks off the Faculty Book Talks series on Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Thornburgh Room on the first floor of Hillman Library. Hoenig will read from “Plato’s Timaeus and the Latin Tradition,” which focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers.

Future events will feature Jeanne Marie Laskas’ “To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope” in February and Kirk Savage’s “Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in the Nineteenth-Century America” in March. Read more at the Faculty Book Talks page.

Literature over Lunch

Geeta Kothari, Writing Center director, senior lecturer and nonfiction editor of “The Kenyon Review,” will read from her collection “I Brake for Moose and Other Stories” on Thursday, Jan. 24, in Hillman’s Cup and Chaucer Café from noon to 1 p.m, as part of the Literature over Lunch series.

In February and March, the series will feature Pitt poets Cameron Barnett and Barbara Edelman, respectively. Learn more about the series and how to schedule a publication reading at the Literature over Lunch page.

“Salk: The Man Behind the Vaccine”

On Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 4 to 6 p.m., the Archive Theater Project presents the story of the Pitt polio team, led by Jonas Salk. The event will take place in Hillman Library’s Digital Scholarship Commons, G-49. For more information, visit the event page.