Washington University's Assembly Series
Fall 1997 Calendar

James Watson
Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer
of DNA

Wednesday, September 3, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Living with the Human Genome Project"
ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON MEMORIAL LECTURE

Elaine Pagels
Author, The Gnostic Gospels

Wednesday, September 10, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Origin of Satan"
WOMAN'S CLUB LECTURE

Robert Alter
Professor of comparative literature and religion University of California at Berkeley

Wednesday, September 17, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Double Canonicity of the Hebrew Bible"

Charles V. Willie /
Kimberlé Crenshaw

Professor of education and urban studies, Harvard University / Professor of law , UCLA

Thursday, September 18, 4 pm in Graham Chapel
"The Cultural and Legal Meaning of Desegregation: Has It Been Achieved? Can It Be Achieved?"

Egon Schwarz
Professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literatures, Washington University

Wednesday, September 24, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Mass Emigration and Intellectual Exile from National Socialism: The Austrian Case"

Heidi Hartmann
Director, Institute for Women's
Policy Research

Wednesday, October 1, 11 am in Graham Chapel
OLIN CONFERENCE: WOMEN AT WORK IN A CHANGING ECONOMY
Thomas Trotter
Award-winning organist

Tuesday, October 7, 7 pm in Graham Chapel
lecture / recital

Robert Thurman
Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies,
Columbia University

Wednesday, October 8, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Politics of Enlightenment"

Arun Gandhi
Advocate of nonviolence and grandson of the late spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, October 15, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Nonviolence or Nonexistence: Options for the 21st Century"
COMMEMORATION FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF
INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE

Neal Lane
President
National Science Foundation

Friday, October 17, 4 pm in May Auditorium in Simon Hall
"The Changing Face of Science"

Ray Suarez
Host, Talk of the Nation
National Public Radio

Wednesday, October 22, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Exuberant Rebirth and Premature Death of the American City"

Amiri Baraka
Poet and playwright
Wednesday, October 29, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Politics of Art" BLACK ARTS AND SCIENCES FESTIVAL--BLACK THEATRE: REFLECTIONS OF OUR CULTURE

Michael Berenbaum
President and CEO,
Survivors of the Shoah Visual
History Foundation

Wednesday, November 5, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Holocaust and Its Remembrance"
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL LECTURE

Andrew Sullivan
Former editor, New Republic

Wednesday, November 12, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Friendship: The Forgotten Relationship"

Robert Proctor
Professor of the history of science
Penn State University

Thursday, November 13, 4 pm in 215 Rebstock Hall
"Science and Medicine in the Service of Nazism"
THOMAS HALL LECTURE




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