2008-2009 Season

Speakers

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  September 9, 2008
  Billy Collins
  Billy Collins: Ballistics, A Reading by Billy Collins
  U.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
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  September 22, 2008
  Bela Fleck
  Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart
  Internationally known jazz banjo player & Grammy winner
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  October 15, 2008
  Paul Simon
  Paul Simon and Billy Collins
  Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter
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  November 6, 2008
  Dr. Linda Wagner-Martin
  Dr. Linda Wagner-Martin: "Recent 9-11 Novels: An Aesthetics of Terror?"
  Author or editor of more than 50 books on 20th Century writers
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  November 23, 2008
  Natalie Krasnostein
  Natalie Krasnostein: In God's Bedroom
  Writer, performer, psychodramatist & workshop facilitator
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  February 3, 2009
  Marilyn Horne
  Marilyn Horne: My Life; Questions and Answers
  World-renowned opera singer
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  February 10, 2009
  Michael Phillips
  Michael Phillips: "Blake and the Terror 1792-1793: In Search of Biography"
  William Blake scholar & expert on Blake's printing process
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  February 11, 2009
  Robert Muehlenkamp
  Robert Muehlenkamp: The Economy is Not Like the Weather; Economic and Political Reality
  Social justice activist and trade union organizer
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  February 16, 2009
  William L. Pressly
  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
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  February 26, 2009
  Martin Eidelberg
  Martin Eidelberg: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
  Tiffany and American Arts Craft Movement Scholar
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  March 1, 2009
  Terry Teachout
  Terry Teachout: Confessions of a Critic
  The Wall Street Journal Theater critic and author
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  March 19, 2009
  Stephen Trachtenberg
  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
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  April 6, 2009
  Peter Suber
  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
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  April 16, 2009
  Roberto Fernandez
  Roberto Fernandez: Writing From the Margins; A Cuban-American Perspective
  Internationally acclaimed author