September 9, 2008
Billy Collins: Ballistics, A Reading by Billy Collins
U.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
September 22, 2008
Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart
Internationally known jazz banjo player & Grammy winner
October 15, 2008
Paul Simon and Billy Collins
Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter
November 6, 2008
Dr. 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, 2008
Natalie Krasnostein: In God's Bedroom
Writer, performer, psychodramatist & workshop facilitator
February 3, 2009
Marilyn Horne: My Life; Questions and Answers
World-renowned opera singer
February 10, 2009
Michael Phillips: "Blake and the Terror 1792-1793: In Search of Biography"
William Blake scholar & expert on Blake's printing process
February 11, 2009
Robert Muehlenkamp: The Economy is Not Like the Weather; Economic and Political Reality
Social justice activist and trade union organizer
February 16, 2009
William L. Pressly: The Artist as Original Genius; Shakespeare's 'Fine Frenzy' in Late Eighteenth Century British Art
Art historian specializing in British art of the late eighteenth century
February 26, 2009
Martin Eidelberg: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
Tiffany and American Arts Craft Movement Scholar
March 1, 2009
Terry Teachout: Confessions of a Critic
The Wall Street Journal Theater critic and author
March 19, 2009
Stephen Trachtenberg: Big Man on Campus; A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education
President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service at The George Washington University
April 6, 2009
Peter Suber: Open Access; Implications for the Future of Scholarly Communications
Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
April 16, 2009
Roberto Fernandez: Writing From the Margins; A Cuban-American Perspective
Internationally acclaimed author
