Cultural Discourses: Steps Beyond Stereotypes
Lectures
Gus
Lee, author and ethicist
Honor and Duty: Academic Integrity and Moral Courage
Opening Convocation of the 160th Academic Year
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004, 11 a.m.
Weaver Chapel
Gus Lee has been assessing honor and character development at colleges and universities for the last decade. A key figure in the National Conference on Ethics in America held at West Point, he is an outstanding speaker who feels that students are eager to be challenged to take responsibility for their lives, and that they must be exposed to their own deepest expectations early in their collegiate careers. In conjunction with this visit, he will be meeting with the Honor Council and student leaders.
Site Link:Gus Lee Bio Page
Jonathan
D. Sarna, historian of Jewish history
American Judaism: The 350-Year History of an Old Faith in the New World
The William A. Kinnison Endowed Lecture in History
Monday, Sept. 27, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Weaver Chapel
Acclaimed historian Jonathan Sarna has authored, co-authored or edited
18 books on topics ranging from immigration and Zionism to ethnicity and
public policy. In 2003 he received
the Marshall Sklare Award for a distinguished career of research in the
social sciences. Sarna is currently the Joseph H. and Belle Braun Professor
of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, and his visit coincides
with the national commemoration of the 350th anniversary of American Jewish
History in September 2004.
Site Link: Jonathan D. Sarna bio
Peter
Beinart and Jonah Goldberg, political news commentators
Decision 2004: The New Republic vs. The National Review
The Fred R. Leventhal Family Endowed Lecture
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center
This debate between Peter Beinart, managing editor of The New Republic, and Jonah Goldberg, editor of the award-winning Web magazine National Review Online, will present opposing views on the candidates and major issues in the upcoming presidential election. Beinart is a 1993 graduate of Yale University. After graduating from Oxford University in 1995, he became a managing editor at the New Republic, senior editor in June 1997 and editor in November 1999. He is a regular panelist on Final Round and on CNN’s Sunday show, Late Edition. Goldberg has been called his generation’s successor to P. J. O’Rourke. His nationally syndicated column regularly appears in major newspapers around the country. Goldberg is also a CNN contributor and regular panelist on Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer. He is an occasional guest host on Crossfire and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including Nightline, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Politically Incorrect and NBC Nightly News.
Site Links: Peter
Beinart - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
Jonah
Goldberg - NRO Editor ar large
Dudley
Herschbach, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
The Impossible Takes a Little Longer
IBM Endowed Lecture in the Sciences
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center
When he entered Stanford University in 1950, Dudley Herschbach gladly
played freshmen football, but he gave up the sport after spring practice
because he found the lab and library much more exciting than the playing
field. In 1986, he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is the Frank
B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. A teacher and
researcher, he is also engaged in several efforts to improve K-12 science
education and public understanding of science.
Technical Lecture
Emulating Maxwell’s Demon
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 3 p.m.
Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center
Robert
Graetz, civil rights activist
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation
Monday, Jan. 17, 2005, 11 a.m.
Weaver Chapel
Pastor of the all-Negro Trinity Lutheran Church in Montgomery, Ala., and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Graetz was the only white publicly active in the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. On this, the 50th anniversary of that momentous event in the Civil Rights Movement, he remains true to his commitment to oppose racism and oppression in the United States. He is the author of A White Preacher’s Memoir: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (River City Publishing) and will release a new book in 2005 marking the jubilee year of the boycott. Graetz is a member of the National Jubilee Celebration Committee and was influential in the designation of Martin Luther King Day as a holiday.
Site Link: Amazon. com A White Preacher's Memoir: The Montgomery Bus Boycott An
Evening of Readings by Author Gus Lee
Monday, March 21, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss
Science Center
Author Gus Lee returns for a four-day residency in writing. He is the
author of Chasing Hepburn, Harmony 2003, best-selling non-fiction memoir;
No Physical Evidence, Ballantine 1998, best-selling courtroom drama; China
Boy, screenplay, WGA 1998, co-writer; Our Mothers’ Spirits, HarperCollins
1997, contrib.; Tiger’s Tail, Knopf 1994, best selling military
adventure, optioned for film by 20th Century Fox; Honor and Duty, Knopf
1994, best-selling novel about West Point and numerous other outstanding
books.
Funded in part by the Anne Barry Hudson Endowment, the American Studies program
and the English department
TBA: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Residency
