National Library Week Speaker: Dr. Mary Pipher
Posted April 7, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
York College's Schmidt Library
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York County Libraries will celebrate National Library Week by presenting renowned author and psychologist Dr. Mary Pipher on April 12 at
7 p.m. in DeMeester Theater. Known for her best-selling books Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country, Dr. Pipher combines her expertise in both the fields of psychology and anthropology in her special interest of how American culture influences the mental health of its people. Dr. Pipher will speak on her book The Middle of Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come To Our Town, addressing the topic of helping refugees enter the American community. The program is funded by a grant from The Donley Foundation.
The Middle of Everywhere is the story of the changes that came to Lincoln, Neb., after it became an official refugee resettlement community. Suddenly, their streets were transformed with the cultural kaleidoscope of people from 52 countries. In working with these refugees as a therapist and transition guide, Dr. Pipher was able to learn much about their cherished homelands and traditions, as well as gain equal insight about her own community. Her work brilliantly documents the cultural collision of refugees and Americans, tackling the enormous issues of migration, trauma, and cross-cultural adjustment in all of its complexity. A book sale and signing of The Middle of Everywhere will be held before the lecture beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Pipher is a graduate in cultural anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska in 1977. She received the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation in 1998 and was a 2001 Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in Residence in Bellagio, Italy.
For more information, contact Susan Campbell, Director of Schmidt Library, at (717) 815-1305 or Peggy Gardner, York County Library System Community Relations Coordinator, at (717) 840-7435, ext. 209.
