Jazz to Journalism:

River Campus Libraries host speakers series

The Neilly Series

Author Kenn Harper will open the second season of the Neilly Series, a lecture program committed to attracting prominent figures in the arts and sciences to the University. Presentations will be in the Welles-Brown Room, unless otherwise noted, beginning at 5 p.m.

The 2002-03 season includes:

September 26

Kenn Harper, the author of Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, describes the life of Minik, an Inuit boy who was taken by explorer Robert Peary to New York City in 1897.

October 11

Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Professor and the Madman, A Tale of Murder: Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. His presentation, "Pleasures of a Writing Life," describes his adventures while researching stories, including a stint in a Patagonian jail and a trip down the Yangtze River (Hoyt Hall).

November 7

Scott Ritter served on the UN weapons inspections team in Iraq and is the author of Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All, which examines American foreign policy in the Middle East.

January 30

John Storm Roberts's lecture "Gestating Jazz: The Mexican Tour of 1885" explores the Latin "tinge" in ragtime and jazz. Accompanied by recorded music.

February 26

Emil Homerin's lecture "Translating Islam" examines Islam's creative diversity and culture, the origin and persistence of Western depictions of Islam, and militant Islam's image of the West.

March 27

Bruce Whiteman, a poet, reviewer, and author, presents "The Forger as Male Head Case: Constantine Simonides and Some Other Rogues."

April 9

Linda Greenhouse is the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Greenhouse discusses the repercussions and importance of recent Supreme Court rulings during her talk "The Supreme Court Today."

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