We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Agnew is the winner of the Kenshur Book Prize for 2008 for her book, Enlightenment Orpheus: the Power of Music in Other Worlds, Oxford University Press, 2008. The award was celebrated with a roundtable on Monday the 21st of September, 2009. April Alliston (Comparative Literature, Princeton University), Dror Wahrman (History, University of Indiana), Fritz Breithaupt (German, University of Indiana), Jesse Molesworth (English, University of Indiana), Vanessa Agnew (German, University of Michigan), and the audience participated in the discussion.

Vanessa Agnew's book is also the recipient of another national prize, which will be officially announced in November.

Event Details: www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/bookprize.html