Kenneth Cooper and Sarah Kaufman
Sept. 11, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel
"Reflections on 9/11"

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Cooper is the Boston Globe's national editor. It is from this vantage point that he will share the challenges inherent in covering the unprecedented story of 9/11 as it unfolded. He will join Sarah Kaufman, who will tell us about her remarkable experiences as a volunteer for Ground Zero rescue efforts.

Stuart Kornfeld and Barbara Schaal
Sept. 18, 4:30 p.m. Laboratory Science Building

Kornfeld and Schaal are prominent Washington University researchers and recipients of this year's faculty achievement awards. Kornfeld, a molecular biophysicist and biochemist, has received the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award; Schaal a plant biologist, has received the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award.

Ian Hacking
Sept. 25, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel
"Body Parts: Large and Small"

Philosopher Hacking is the author of many books including Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. His talk will explore how new technologies - organ transplants, the purchase and sale of body parts, sex change, and new definitions of death - are radically changing our relationships to our bodies.

John Beatty
Sept. 26, 4 p.m. Rebstock Hall Rm. 215
"Genetics, the Atomic Age and the Cold War"

Beatty is a philosopher of science whose areas of expertise are the history of genetics and evolutionary biology. His talk will address the relevance of genetics to Atomic Age and Cold War conerns.

Carole Counihan
Oct. 2, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel

As an anthropologist and director of women's studies at Millersville University, Millersville, Penn., Counihan has focused on the study of food and culture. Currently, she is conducting a long-term life history project on food and gender identity. This is the Olin Conference Lecture.

Esmerelda Santiago
Oct. 9, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel

Leslie Gelb
Oct. 10, 4 p.m. Graham Chapel
"Why Values Still Matter"

Gelb is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, which is devoted to improving America's understanding of foreign policy issues. He also had a distinguished career at the New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1985. This is the Stein Lecture.

Dave Hickey
Oct. 16, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel
"Practical Paganism: Talking About Beauty in America"

Hickey is an influential voice in the art world and is also known for his fiction and cultural criticism. His books include The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy. His articles have been published in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.

Wole Soyinka
"Art and the Politics of Theater"
Oct. 23, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel

Soyinka's prolific body of work is drawn from a fusion of African traditions and modern European thought. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Through his plays, novels, essays and poetry, he has used literature to challenge Nigerian political structures and has paid for it with imprisonment and exile. This is the Black Arts and Sciences Festival Lecture.

Oliver Sacks
Oct. 30, Noon Graham Chapel

With such bestselling books as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars and Awakenings (which was made into a movie starring Robin Williams) neurologist Sacks is one of the world's most captivating storytellers. His talk will focus on recollections of his rich and fascinating life. This is the CHIMES Lecture.

Jan Gross
Nov. 6, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel

Gross' recent book, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, explores the 1941 murder of 1600 Jewish people in a small Polish town, committed not by the Nazis, but by fellow villagers and neighbors. His talk will explore its effects on a community dealing with this horrific legacy. This is the Holocaust Memorial Lecture.

Robert Fisk
Nov. 13, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel
"Reports from the Middle East: The Politics of War, Foreign Policy and the Media since 9/11"

For 26 years, Fisk has been a Middle East correspondent, first with the Times of London and since 1988, The Independent. He has interviewd Osama Bin Laden three times, most recently in 1997. His reports are hard-hitting, insightful and frequently controversial in the West.

Joshua Sobol
Nov. 20, 11 a.m. Graham Chapel

Sobol is Israel's greatest living dramatist. His plays have been staged in every major Israeli theater. Among his works, Ghetto (from the Vilna Trilogy) has been performed throughout the world. Sobol's lecture is in conjunction with the on-campus premiere of his play, Shooting Magda, and promises to shed light on this profound, controversial and exciting new work.

Joshua Sobol