Upcoming Lectures

Thanksgiving Break
All Day @ NA - No events planned the week of Thanksgiving Break, November 23-27.

Live Webcast - Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Frontiers of Evolution - E.O. Wilson and Everett Mendelsohn
12:00 PM @ E164 Lagomarcino - A live webcast of a panel of scientists led by E. O. Wilson and Everett Mendelsohn will discuss Darwin's legacy and talk about the frontiers of evolutionary and molecular biology as part of the the "150th Anniversary of the Origin of Species" Series hosted by The Reading Odyssey and the Darwin Facebook Project.This lecture is the fourth of five lectures in the fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. This is a live webcast being broadcast from Harvard University.

Let Freedom Ring - Carillon Concert
11:50 AM @ Central Campus - A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King with Dr. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloneur. Part of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration
4:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Musical performances and speakers celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King. Musical performances and speakers celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King. The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Advancing One Community Awards will be presented. Birthday cake graciously donated by Campus Dining Services.

Can We Save the World? Wendy Chamberlin
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Wendy Chamberlin is president of the Middle East Institute and a twenty-nine-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service. She was the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan from 2001 to 2002 and played a key role in Pakistan’s cooperation for the U.S.-led campaign against al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan following 9/11. From 2002 to 2004 she directed civilian reconstruction programs in Iraq and Afghanistan and development assistance programs in the Middle East and East Asia for USAID. She has also served as Deputy High Commissioner for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. A graduate of Northwestern University, Chamberlin has an MS in education from Boston University and participated in the Executive Program at Harvard University. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Under Our Skin: There's No Medicine for Someone Like You - Documentary Film
10:00 AM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Under Our Skin exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease. It looks not only at the science and politics of the disease but also at the personal stories of those who have been affected, from doctors who risk their medical licenses to patients who once led active lives but now can barely walk. While exposing a broken health care and medical research system, the film also gives voice to those who believe that instead of a crisis, Lyme is simply a "disease du jour," over diagnosed and contributing to another crisis: the looming resistance of microbes and ineffectuality of antibiotics. Under Our Skin was produced and directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson and won Best Documentary Award at the Camden International Film Festival. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

The Wilding: A Fiction Reading - Benjamin Percy
1:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ben Percy, assistant professor of creative writing at Iowa State, was raised in the high desert of Central Oregon. He is the author of the novel The Wilding, forthcoming from Graywolf Press, and two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire, Men’s Journal, the Paris Review, the Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, and Best American Short Stories. Percy's honors include a Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

Meaningful Work: The Writer as Citizen - Terry Tempest Williams and Rick Bass
3:30 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join symposium keynotes Terry Tempest Williams and Rick Bass in a conversation about the responsibility of writers in an ever-changing and imperiled environmental landscape. Terry Tempest Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge. Her most recent book is Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Rick Bass is the author of twenty books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West and the short story collection The Lives of Rocks. He lives in the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, where he has been active in protecting the land from roads and logging. The discussion will be moderated by Dean Bakopoulos, an assistant professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination Symposium.

Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World - Terry Tempest Williams
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Terry Tempest Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge, a classic in environmental literature. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. She has testified before Congress on women’s health issues, camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda. Williams publications include An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her most recent book is Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Williams’s many awards and achievements include a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, and the Wallace Stegner Award from the Center for the American West. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination and the Eco-Voices Series.