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September 25—Carla Yanni
Carla Yanni will discuss her most recent book, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in
the United States. Yanni tells the story of therapeutic design, from America’s earliest purposebuilt institutions to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century.
A Rochester native, now Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, she is interested in
architecture as a way of understanding society’s values.
The Lecture will be introduced by J. Steven Lamberti, Associate Professor of Psychiatry.
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. 5 p.m.
October 17—Tim Weiner
Pulitzer Prize winner, Tim Weiner, examines the history of the CIA from its creation after World
War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after
9/11. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA earned Weiner a National Book Award and was
deemed one of the Best Books of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The New York
Times, and The Economist.
Weiner is a reporter for The New York Times, where he has covered the CIA for the past
twenty years, as well as wars, coups, and United States foreign policy. In 1988, while a
reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting,
in recognition of articles exposing the secret spending of the Pentagon and the CIA.
The Lecture will be introduced by Theodore M. Brown, Professor of History.
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. 5 p.m.
November 13—Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson, UR Class of 1966, is Literary Executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and
Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Early
Auden, Later Auden and the editor of W.H. Auden’s Complete Works.
Mendelson first met Auden while a senior at UR. He later focused his doctoral dissertation on
Auden, and, in 1973, Auden named Mendelson his literary executor. Mendelson will discuss
“W.H. Auden and the Mystery of the Imaginative Conscience.”
The Lecture will be introduced by Russell Peck, John Hall Deane Professor of English.
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. 5 p.m.
�February 19—Nancy Kress
Rochesterian Nancy Kress has written more than twenty-three books and won four Nebula
Awards and a Hugo for her science fiction writing. A one-time corporate copy writer, Kress
taught at the State University of New York at Brockport, frequently teaches at summer
conferences, and is currently the Fiction columnist for Writer’s Digest. Her works have been
translated into more than ten languages.
Kress will discuss the art of writing science fiction.
The lecture will be introduced by Jeffrey Tucker, Associate Professor of English.
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. 5 p.m.
March 26—Marie Howe
Marie Howe’s new volume of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, explores the difference
between the self and the soul, the secular and the sacred, and where is the kingdom of
heaven? How does one live in Ordinary Time—during those periods that are not apparently
miraculous?
Howe’s has authored two previous books of poetry, The Good Thief and What the Living Do,
and co-edited a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the
AIDS Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, and the
Harvard Review. She currently teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
The Lecture will be introduced by Friederike Seligman, Assistant Professor of Russian.
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. 5 p.m.
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<p class="p1">Edward Mendelson, UR Class of 1966, is Literary Executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of <em>Early Auden, Later Auden</em> and the editor of W.H. Auden’s Complete Works.</p>
<p class="p1">Mendelson first met Auden while a senior at UR. He later focused his doctoral dissertation on Auden, and, in 1973, Auden named Mendelson his literary executor. Mendelson will discuss “W.H. Auden and the Mystery of the Imaginative Conscience.”</p>
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