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2008-2009 Season
From Bela Fleck to Paul Simon, re-live the 2008-2009 Rollins Winter Park Institute season.
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- September 9, 2008Billy Collins: Ballistics, A Reading by Billy CollinsU.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
- September 22, 2008Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your HeartInternationally known jazz banjo player & Grammy winner
- October 15, 2008Paul Simon and Billy CollinsGrammy-Award winning singer and songwriter
- November 6, 2008Dr. Linda Wagner-Martin: "Recent 9-11 Novels: An Aesthetics of Terror?"Author or editor of more than 50 books on 20th Century writers
- November 23, 2008Natalie Krasnostein: In God's BedroomWriter, performer, psychodramatist & workshop facilitator
- February 3, 2009Marilyn Horne: My Life; Questions and AnswersWorld-renowned opera singer
- February 10, 2009Michael Phillips: "Blake and the Terror 1792-1793: In Search of Biography"William Blake scholar & expert on Blake's printing process
- February 11, 2009Robert Muehlenkamp: The Economy is Not Like the Weather; Economic and Political RealitySocial justice activist and trade union organizer
- February 16, 2009William L. Pressly: The Artist as Original Genius; Shakespeare's 'Fine Frenzy' in Late Eighteenth Century British ArtArt historian specializing in British art of the late eighteenth century
- February 26, 2009Martin Eidelberg: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany GirlsTiffany and American Arts Craft Movement Scholar
- March 1, 2009Terry Teachout: Confessions of a CriticThe Wall Street Journal Theater critic and author
- March 19, 2009Stephen Trachtenberg: Big Man on Campus; A University President Speaks Out on Higher EducationPresident Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service at The George Washington University
- April 6, 2009Peter Suber: Open Access; Implications for the Future of Scholarly CommunicationsResearch Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
- April 16, 2009Roberto Fernandez: Writing From the Margins; A Cuban-American PerspectiveInternationally acclaimed author