IBM Endowed Lecture in the Sciences
Dan P. McAdams, psychologist and educator
"The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By"
3 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006
Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center
The Redemptive Self: Stories American Live By is Dr. McAdams' most recent book. In it, he draws on philosophy, history, neuroscience, religion and psychology to encourage all of us to examine our lives and our stories in full, and to apprehend both the good and the bad in the stories we live by so that we may fashion better stories and better lives for the future.
The Fred R. Leventhal Family Endowed Lecture
"The Wal-Mart Effect "
Charles Fishman, Award-Winning Investigative Journalist
7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006
Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center
"Who knew shopping would turn out to be so important?" —Charles Fishman Charles Fishman is an award-winning investigative and magazine journalist who has spent the last 20 years trying to get inside, understand and explain important organizations from NASA to Wal-Mart. A graduate of Harvard University, he is currently a senior writer at Fast Company magazine. Fishman has visited dozens of Wal-Marts in 23 states and has spent several months in Bentonville. His recently published book, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works and How It's Transforming the American Economy (Penguin Press 2006) has been hailed as "insightful," "compelling" and a "must read for anyone interested in business."
Martin Marty, Lutheran theologian
The Kenneth H. Sauer Luther Symposium
"The Future of American Lutheranism"
7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 30, 2006
Weaver Chapel
Throughout his career, Martin Marty has earned the respect of religious leaders throughout the United States and around the world. The author of more than 50 books, he has won the National Book Award. He is also former president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History and the American Catholic Historical Association. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught chiefly in the Divinity School for 35 years and where the Martin Marty Center has since been founded to promote "public religion" endeavors.
John W. Dower, historian and award-winning writer
"Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and 9/11"
The William A. Kinnison Endowed Lecture in History
7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 10, 2006
Weaver Chapel
John W. Dower is currently Ford International Professor of History at MIT. The primary focus of his research is modern Japan and U.S. Japan relations. His book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Yamagata Banto Prize for Creative Work on Japan by a non-Japanese Scholar. Dower has long been an advocate for international peace and was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire-A Journey from Hiroshima (1988).
Michael Eric Dyson, scholar and best-selling auther
“Dr. King for the 21st Century”
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation
11 a.m., Monday, Jan. 15, 2007
Weaver Chapel
Michael Eric Dyson is a prolific author, scholar, public intellectual, ordained minister, media commentator and talk radio show host. In his 13 books in 13 years, Dyson has taken on some of the toughest and most controversial issues of our day, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical legacy, the virtues and crises of hip-hop culture, racial conflict and black identity, and, most recently, the political and racial fall-out from Hurricane Katrina. Dyson is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
