Washington University's Assembly Series
Spring 1999 Calendar

James Hal Cone
Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor,
Systmeatic Theology, Union Theological Seminary

Wednesday, January 20, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"They Sought a City: Martin's Dream or Malcom's Nightmare?"
CHANCELLOR'S FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE

Wallace Broecker
Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

Wednesday January 27, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Surprises in the Greenhouse"
WILLIAM C. FERGUSON MEMORIAL LECTURE

Patricia Churchland
Professor of philosophy,
University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, February 3, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"What Can We Expect From a Theory of Consciousness?"

Bill Strickland
Social visionary and entrepreneur

Wednesday, February 10, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Business of Social Change"
HELEN MANLEY LECTURE

Arthur Golden
Author, Memoirs of a Geisha

Wednesday, February 17, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Making of a Geisha: Forging a Cultural Identity"
CULTURAL CELEBRATION / NEUREUTHER LIBRARY LECTURE

Lee Epstein / Jack Knight
Edward Mallinckrodt Distingueshed University
Professor of Political Science/
Associate professor of political science,
Washington University

Wednesday, February 24, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Trivialization of the U.S. Supreme Court"

Douglas Wilson
Professor Emeritus of English and co-director,
Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College

Wednesday, March 10, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Herndon's Dilemma: Abraham Lincoln and the Privacy Issue"
THOMAS D. FULBRIGHT LECTURE

Daniel Schacter
Professor and chair, Department of Psychology,
Harvard University

Wednesday, March 17, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Fragile Power of Human Memory"

Dolores Huerta
Labor activist and co-founder of the
United Farm Workers

Wednesday, March 24, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"The Struggle Contiues"
WOMEN'S WEEK

Charles Johnson
Pollock Professor in Humanities, University of
Washingtion; author, Middle Passage, Dreamer

Wednesday, March 31, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Dreamer: Constructing Martin Luther King's Legacy in Fiction"
CHIMES LECTURE

David Konstan
John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of
Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, Brown University

Thursday, April 1, 4 pm in Graham Chapel
"Divine Pity from Paganism to Christianity"
JOHN AND PENELOPE BIGGS RESIDENCY IN THE CLASSICS

Sister Souljah
Rapper and community activist
Wednesday, April 7, 11 am in Graham Chapel
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SYMPOSIUM

Steven Pinker
Professor of psychology and director,
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience,
Massachusettes Institute of Technology

Friday, April 9, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"How the Mind Works"
OMICRON DELTA KAPPA LECTURE

Richard Rorty
professor of comparative literature,
Stanford University

Wednesday, April 14, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"Spinoza, Pragmatism and the Love of Wisdom"
PHI BETA KAPPA / SIGMA XI LECTURE

Frances Mayes
author, Under the Tuscan Sun

Wednesday, April 21, 11 am in Graham Chapel
"When the Moon is Hard, When the Moon is Tender: Finding the Rhythm of a Memoir"
WOMEN'S SOCIETY ADELE STARBIRD LECTURE




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