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September 26 - Kenn Harper.
Harper's lecture, "The Life of Minik," describes an Inuit boy's life after being taken by explorer
Robert Peary from Greenland to New York City in 1897. The lecture, accompanied by slides,
describes Minik's life in NY, his discovery that his father's skeleton was in the American
Museum of Natural History and not buried in 1898 as he had thought, and his eventual return
to Greenland. Harper describes how he first heard of Minik from the Polar Eskimos of
Greenland, and discusses the role of the museum in the Minik affair, and the symbol that Minik
has become for the Inuit. Harper is the author of Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik,
the New York Eskimo. He has lived in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland for the past 36 years
and served on an advisory commission to the federal and territorial governments on the
formation of the Government of Nunavut in Canada.
October 11 - Simon Winchester
Winchester is the acclaimed author of the international bestsellers The Professor and the
Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and The
Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. He has recently
completed a book on the devastating 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano.
Originally a geologist, Winchester was a travel correspondent and freelance writer for such
periodicals as Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Smithsonian. His talk, "Pleasures of a
Writing Life," describes his adventures, while researching stories, which include a stint in a
Patagonian jail and a trip down the Yangtze River. (Hoyt Hall)
November 7 - Scott Ritter
Ritter served as a military intelligence officer, reaching the rank of major. He was formerly an
arms control inspector in the former Soviet Union and was on the staff of General Norman
Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, before joining the UN weapons inspections team (UNSCOM)
in Iraq. He resigned from this position in 1998 in protest at the continuing UN economic
sanctions against Iraq. He is the author of Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For
All, which examines the shortcomings of American foreign policy in the Middle East and
suggests alternative approaches to the Iraqi crisis. He recently completed a documentary film,
In Shifting Sands, the truth about UNSCOM and the disarming of Iraq.
January 30 - John Storm Roberts
Roberts' lecture, "Gestating Jazz: The Mexican Tour of 1885," explores the Latin "tinge" in
ragtime and jazz. Roberts has documented and promoted music from countries worldwide. He
studied languages at Oxford and subsequently reviewed local music for the East African
Standard in Nairobi. He returned to England to produce television documentaries on African
music for the BBC before coming to America in 1970. He is a well-known ethnomusicologist
who specializes in African music and Latin jazz. His book "The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin
American Music on the United States" describes the history of Latin American music and its
influences on American music over the last 20 years. Roberts' presentation is accompanied by
recorded music.
February 26 - Emil Homerin
Homerin's lecture, "Translating Islam," presents several views of Islam's creative diversity and
culture, the origin and persistence of Western depictions of Islam, and militant Islam's image
of the West. A central theme of the presentation is how art and literature can stereotype
�religion and culture, as well as reveal their deeper human dimensions. Homerin lived and
worked in the Middle East for several years, most recently in the summer of 2000. Among his
publications are From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint and his anthology of translations Ibn al-Fârid:
Sufi Verse and Saintly Life. Homerin is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of
Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
March 27 - Bruce Whiteman
Whiteman has published extensively as a poet and reviewer, and has written a number of
books about bibliography, printing and literary history. He is the author of Visible Stars: New
and Selected Poems and he co-edited the recent catalogue The World from Here: Treasures of
the Great Libraries of Los Angeles (2001). He is currently working on a book about Constantine
Simonides, the 19th-century manuscript forger. He is Head Librarian at UCLA's William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, which specializes in 17th and 18th-century literature, and is
an avid book collector. His presentation, "The Forger as Male Head Case: Constantine
Simonides and Some Other Rogues" is accompanied by slides.
April 9 - Linda Greenhouse
Greenhouse has been the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times since 1978.
Prior to covering the Court, she attended Yale Law School on a Ford Foundation fellowship. She
has a Master of Studies in Law, and in 1998 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for
her coverage of the Supreme Court. She also appears regularly on the PBS program
Washington Week in Review. Greenhouse discusses the repercussions and importance of
recent Supreme Court rulings during her talk "The Supreme Court Today."
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<span>Ritter served as a military intelligence officer, reaching the rank of major. He was formerly an arms control inspector in the former Soviet Union and was on the staff of General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, before joining the UN weapons inspections team (UNSCOM) in Iraq. He resigned from this position in 1998 in protest at the continuing UN economic sanctions against Iraq. He is the author of </span><em>Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All</em><span>, which examines the shortcomings of American foreign policy in the Middle East and suggests alternative approaches to the Iraqi crisis. He recently completed a documentary film, </span><em>In Shifting Sands</em><span>, the truth about UNSCOM and the disarming of Iraq.</span>
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