Previous Speakers
April 2009
Paul Roberts, Author
"The End of Food"
7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Lair Auditorium (Building 6)
Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington
Journalist Paul Roberts, author of the book The End of Food, keynotes Spokane Community College's President's Speakers Series 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Lair-Student Center auditorium, Bldg. 6, 1810 N. Greene St.
The lecture was co-sponsored by Eastern Washington University's GetLit! festival and the Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities at SCC.
A journalist since 1983, Roberts writes and lectures on the interplay of economics, technology, and the natural world. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, and Rolling Stone. Roberts is also a frequent guest on television and radio news shows like "News Hour" (PBS), the "CBS Evening News" and NPR's "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition," and "Fresh Air."
Roberts' first book, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, examines the world's rapidly dwindling oil supply and offers a clear-sighted criticism of the United States' energy policy. The End of Food details how the rise of large-scale industrialized food production complexes actually undermines society's ability to produce safe, nourishing food that adequately meets the needs of a rapidly expanding world population.
For information about the SCC President's Speakers Series, contact the SCC President's Office, 533-7042.
About GetLit!
GetLit! is a weeklong community celebration for readers and writers, featuring author presentations and readings, writing workshops and panels, poetry slams among other events. Many events are free and open to the public. For information about upcoming GetLit! programs, visit www.ewu.edu/getlit or call (509) 368-6587.
About the Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities
The Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities at Spokane Community College is dedicated to integrating liberal arts and humanities with the technical programs offered at SCC. The Center is also a significant way for SCC to contribute to the community's cultural life. The Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities is a place where a community of minds can gather to explore various perspectives and ideas. For more information, visit www.scc.spokane.edu/?hfch.
October 2008
Scott Simon, Writer/Novelist/Radio Host
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Lair Auditorium (Building 6)
Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington
Writer/novelist Scott Simon, host of National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition," spoke at Spokane Community College - 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28, in the Lair-Student Center auditorium, Bldg. 6, 1810 N. Greene St. as part of the SCC President's Speakers Series 2008-2009. Supported in part by Spokane Public Radio and The Pacific Northwest Inlander, Simon's presentation was free and open to the public.
Leading into the November 4 U.S. presidential election, Simon provided a 360-degree overview of political leadership, both global and domestic, and offered his views on global issues facing the next president of the United States. He also discussed the world leaders with whom the next U.S. President must work to accomplish positive results.
A Peabody Award winner, Simon has covered 10 wars, plus hundreds of political campaigns, sieges, famines, hurricanes, earthquakes, civil wars, scandals, state funerals - and opening nights. He has profiled international personalities such as Mother Theresa and Ariel Sharon as well as street kids in Rio de Janeiro and refugees from Kosovo and the Sudan.
In addition to his work on National Public Radio, Simon has hosted numerous public television specials, as well as appeared on "Weekend Today" (NBC) and "NOW with Bill Moyers" (PBS) as an essayist and commentator.
As a novelist, Simon published Pretty Birds, depicting the siege of Sarajevo, in 2005 and introduced the political comedy Windy City in 2008. His works also include Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan (2000), which topped The Los Angeles Times nonfiction bestseller list, and Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball (2002), Barnes and Noble Sports Book of the Year.
Note: Simon's program, "Weekend Edition," airs Saturday and Sunday 6 to 10 a.m. on KPBX 91.1 FM and 5 to 7 a.m. and 10 to 11 a.m. on KSFC 91.9 FM.
Special thanks to SCC President's Speakers Series supporters:
May 2008
Todd Carmichael, International Entrepreneur
"Stepping Off the Path - The Road Less (and Best) Traveled by Successful Business People"
A discussion of differentiation and nonconformity in business and its role in a successful business life
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Lair Auditorium (Building 6)
Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington
Todd Carmichael lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he and coffee roaster, Jean-Philippe Iberti, owned and operate one of the finest coffee businesses in the country, La Colombe Torrefaction. Carmichael and Iberti were featured in the November 2000 Entrepreneur Magazine as two of the country's up and coming young millionaires. Since that time, La Colombe Torrefaction has continued to boom. Carmichael spent the spring and summer of 2007 flying to and from Africa, where he is working on sustainability programs with coffee in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
As a social activist, Carmichael is known for his bold adventures. He’s been called "The Orangutan Man" for his trek across Antarctica to raise money to try to save the dwindling population of Sumatran orangutans.
More information about Carmichael's trek across Antarctica can be found at www.subzerosolo.com.
April 2008
David James Duncan
"Holy Fools in Literature and in Real Life"
7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Lair Auditorium (Building 6)
Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington
I'm not about to do anything so sober and nonfoolish as lecture on "the holy fool in literature," or in Shakespeare, or some such thing. The only business I have with holy fools is to praise them as the fey, self-effacing heroes they are, as I aspire to become one myself. Anyone who's ever been in love is a first cousin to holy fools. My tales and memoirs and stories will explore this likeness. I'll also try to depict the holiness brought on by visitations from wild birds, the holiness I've seen in the act of forgiveness, and the holiness that sometimes bursts out of people whose hearts have been broken. The gist of the evening will be to explore holy fools via stories.
David James Duncan is an American novelist, essayist, and fly-fisherman. He is the author of two bestselling novels, The River Why (1983) and The Brothers K (1992). He has also written a collection of short stories, River Teeth, and a memoir of sorts, My Story As Told By Water (2001). His latest work is God Laughs and Plays (2006). Religious mysticism underlies a lot of his work and he frequently writes about environmental concerns. He grew up in suburban Portland, Oregon, and lives with his wife, children, and chickens somewhere in Montana. His favorite chicken is named Osprey.
February 2008
Orville Schell
"China: Environment and Climate Change"
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Lair Auditorium (Building 6)
Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington
With China, the most populous nation in the world, producing an ever larger share of the world's industrial goods and with it having just passed the US as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, it has entered a period of environmental crisis. But what is notable about this crisis for the rest of the world is that what happens in China - whether through polluting its rivers, over-fishing its marine habitat, deforesting its woodlands, contaminating its food-stocks, overgrazing its pasture land or degrading its air resources - China's problems are now everyone's problem. Thus understanding what is happening in that crucial country is more important than ever for Americans to understand.
Biographical Information:
While best known as one of the country's most well-informed and thoughtful observers on China, Orville Schell has also been a ship-hand, a war correspondent in Indochina, a rancher, a journalist reporting for such magazines as The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New Yorker, TIME, Wired, and Foreign Affairs. He has been a contributor on China for PBS, NBC, and CBS, where a 60 Minutes program of his won an Emmy. He has also served as a correspondent for several PBS/Frontline documentaries on China and Tibet and covered the war in Iraq for The New York Review of Books.
Until recently, Schell served as Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. While he will remain on the UC Berkeley faculty, he has now been appointed as Director of the Asia Society's newly established Center on US-China Relations in New York City. In this new capacity, he will lead new programs on the environment, the media and foreign policy in an effort promote more constructive dialogue between key Chinese and American leaders. He will also be a Fellow at Shorenstein Center at the John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University.
Schell has served on the board of Human Rights Watch, Current TV and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His written work includes some fifteen books, ten of them about China, including Virtual Tibet, Mandate of Heaven and Discos and Democracy, as well as the five-volume China Reader. He is currently working on issues of continuing political and economic reform in China.
His lecture topics include:
- "How sustainable is the China boom?"
- "What is the future of Tibet?"
- "Is the American media letting us down?"
- "China: The Environment and Climate Change."
Schell has been honored with fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Freedom Forum at Columbia University. He has also received numerous honors, including the Overseas Press Club of America Award, a Page One Award, and, most recently, the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford and Harvard Universities for the best coverage of Asia.
Schell, who also has an active interest in photography, has also written the opening essays for such books as Jack Birns' Assignment Shanghai, James Whitlow Delano's Empire: Impressions from China, and Sebastiao Salgado's Sahel: The End of The Road.
Schell is currently working on a book on Chinese history for the Modern Library at Random House.
November 2007
Dayna Baumeister, Ph.D.
"What Would Nature Do? Biomimicry as a Path to Sustainability"
7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 8, 2007
Lair Auditorium (Building 6)
Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington
In a world that needs one brilliant idea after another, it's good to be surrounded by genius. Biomimicry - the process of finding sustainable ideas by echoing nature - is finding a home in companies, universities, and organizations throughout the world. Our ability to borrow life's blueprints and recipes is on the rise, and so is the need for more elegant, energysipping, non-toxic designs. It's no wonder that companies are inviting "biologists to the design table," and biomimicry studios in universities are giving the next generation of designers, biologists, and engineers a new place to look for answers.
Dayna Baumeister, Ph.D., provided a visual tour of the world of bio-inspired, sustainable emerging innovations.
Biographical Information:
Co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, Dayna's fascination and intrigue with the natural world began early with daily forays into the woods behind her home and weekend trips to the mountains with her family. As an adult, nature has been an inspiration in all of her personal and professional endeavors. Starting at the coastal seashore of Florida, Dayna received a BS in Marine Biology from New College in Sarasota. After several years exploring the intricate relationships of coral reefs, she turned in her wetsuit and headed back to the mountains. There, Dayna earned a MS in Resource Conservation and a PhD in Organismic Biology and Ecology from the University of Montana in Missoula, specializing in dynamics of positive interactions among animal and plant life. With a background in biology, a devotion to applied natural history, and a passion for sharing the wonders of nature with others, Dayna has worked in the field of Biomimicry since 1998 as an educator, researcher, and design consultant. As co-founder and keystone for the Biomimicry Guild, Dayna acts as the liaison between all members of the Guild. In addition, she brings her skills as a systems thinker and organic communicator to her dynamic workshops, presentations, seminars, and exhibits, which have introduced the idea of nature as model, measure, and mentor to thousands of designers, business managers, and engineers around the country. Bringing home the principles of life that she espouses in her work, Dayna finds physical and spiritual sustenance as a gardener, hunter, yoga instructor, and naturalist. She lives with her family in the foothills of the inspiring landscape of the rugged Rocky Mountain Front in Montana.
May 2007
Anne Lamott
In partnership with Whitworth College and the SCC Hagan Center Foundation for the Humanities, SCC's President's Speakers Series was honored to present Anne Lamott Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. This event was held in the Cowles Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Whitworth College, and is free and open to the public.
Anne Lamott is the best-selling author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, and Traveling Mercies. Her newest collection of essays, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, will be available March 2007.
Biographical Information:
Anne Lamott writes and speaks about subjects that begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus. But armed with self-effacing humor – she is laugh out-loud funny – and ruthless honesty, Lamott converts her subjects into enchantment. Actually, she writes about what most of us don't like to think about. She wrote her first novel for her father, the writer Kenneth Lamott, when he was diagnosed with brain cancer. She has said that the book was "a present to someone I loved who was going to die." In all her novels, Anne Lamott writes about loss - loss of loved ones and loss of personal control. She doesn't try to sugar-coat the sadness, frustration and disappointment, but tells her stories with honesty, compassion and a pureness of voice. Anne Lamott says, "I have a lot of hope and a lot of faith and I struggle to communicate that." Anne Lamott does communicate her faith; in her books and in person, she lifts, comforts, and inspires, all the while keeping us laughing.
Anne Lamott is the author of six novels including, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart (the sequel to Rosie), as well as four best-selling books of non-fiction, Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son's first year, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, a guide to writing and the challenges of a writer's life, Traveling Mercies, a collection of autobiographical essays on faith, and Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. Anne Lamott has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught at U.C. Davis, as well as at writing conferences across the country. Lamott's biweekly Salon Magazine "online diary" Word by Word was voted The Best of the Web by Time magazine. Filmmaker Freida Mock (who won an Academy Award for her documentary on Maya Lin) has made a documentary on Anne Lamott, "Bird by Bird with Annie" (1999).
April 2007
Donald Worster, Ph.D.
"On John Muir's Trail:
Nature in an Age of Liberal Principles"
Spokane Community College and Eastern Washington University's
Office of Academic Affairs present a Get Lit! event on
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
at 7:30 p.m. in SCC's Lair Auditorium (Building 6).
Spokane Community
College
1810 N. Greene St.
Spokane, Washington
A passionate and eloquent pioneer in the field of environmental history, Donald Worster is the author of the acclaimed A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, which won the David W. and Beatrice C. Evans Biography Award and the Henry Adams Prize. His many publications include Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, for which Worster was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, which traces the evolution of ecology from the 18th century to the present day. His book Dust Bowl, a study of the Southern Plains in the "dirty '30s," was heralded as "a stunning entry in the newly emerging field of environmental history." Published in 1979, Dust Bowl won the 1980 Bancroft Prize.
Worster, who earned his doctoral degree from Yale University, currently holds the Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American history at the University of Kansas and has lectured throughout the United States and in Africa, Asia, Europe, Canada, Central America, and Australia. The New York Times Book Review has compared his writing about the West with the work of John Muir, Edward Abbey, Bernard DeVoto, and Wallace Stegner, acknowledging it as "distinguished company indeed, and Donald Worster stands tall in it."
February 2007
Dr. William F. Schulz
"Terror, Torment, and Tyranny:
The State of Human Rights Today"
7:00 p.m., Monday, February 26, 2007
Lair Auditorium
Building 6 (Lair Student Center)
Spokane Community
College
1810 N. Greene St.
Spokane, Washington
Dr. William F. Schulz is the former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA from 1994-2006. Amnesty International is recognized as the world's foremost human rights organization. He has led human rights missions to Liberia; Tunisia; Darfur, Sudan; Northern Ireland, along with numerous other regions. Schulz is the author of two books on human rights, In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All, and Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights. As an ordained minister, Dr. Schulz served and was president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations from 1985-1993. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, and an Adjunct Professor at the New School in New York City.
November 2006
Linda Lawrence Hunt
"Hemispheres of Hope:
Bold-spirited Living in a Post 9-11 World"
Author of Bold Spirit (www.boldspiritacrossamerica.com)
9:30 and 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities
Building 16 (Library), Second Floor
Spokane Community
College
1810 N. Greene St.
Spokane, Washington
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Lair Auditorium
Building 6 (Lair Student Center)
Spokane Community
College
1810 N. Greene St.
Spokane, Washington
With audiences across America, Dr. Linda Lawrence Hunt explores the powerful intersection between cultural influences and the human spirit. One of the profound legacies of 9/11 includes living in a national culture saturated with a daily barrage of fear messages. Can we recognize and dismantle these force fields of fear that erode our personal, national, and global communities? In these challenging times, we must reclaim the hemispheres of hope, which includes the study of humanities, that encourage citizens and leaders to engage the world with bold-spirited vision, commitments, and enlarged hearts and minds.
More about Linda Lawrence Hunt:
Dr. Linda Lawrence Hunt is the director of The Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship founded to honor the legacy of her daughter Krista Hunt Ausland, who was killed while volunteering in Bolivia. The foundation provides support and a mentoring community for young adults engaged in volunteer service in America's inner cities, developing nations, and in environmental projects. Early in her career as a writing professor, Dr. Hunt taught briefly in the English Department at Spokane Community College before becoming director of the Whitworth College writing program.
She is also the author of the award-winning book Bold Spirit. A true story of a Spokane mother and daughter who walked across America during the Victorian era to save a family farm, it has been chosen by SCC's Humanities Program as their common reader for Fall 2006. Through her leadership with The Krista Foundation and as an author, Dr. Hunt speaks across the nation on cultural influences, leadership and service, the silencing of family stories, and the strength and vulnerability of the human spirit.
Bold Spirit won the national Willa Cather Literary Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the Washington State Book Award. It was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as one of the "top-ten 'break-out' books from university presses" for 2004 and has been featured on CNN. A graduate of the University of Washington, Dr. Hunt researched Helga Estby's forgotten story for her doctoral dissertation at Gonzaga University.
ForeWord Magazine says of Bold Spirit: "Thanks to the author's seventeen years of dogged research, a heroic 'forgotten first' and a new women's history classic has emerged."
April 2006
Dr. Gregory Stock
Enhancing the Human:
Genomics,
Science Fiction and Ethics Collide
President/CEO
Signum Biosciences
Professor
Health Sciences
UCLA
Program Director
Medicine, Technology
and Society
UCLA School of Public Health
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 7 p.m.
Lair Student Center Auditorium
Spokane Community College
1810 N. Greene St., MS 2011
Spokane, WA 99217-5399
Contact: 509-533-7081
A reception and book signing followed the presentation.
Dr. Gregory Stock believes we are at a defining moment in human evolution. A thousand years from now our descendants will point to this time, with its critical breakthroughs in computers, genetics, and space travel, as one of the key transitions in the long history of life. Dr. Stock has explored the larger evolutionary significance of humanity's recent technological progress for many years, examining the subject at length in his book The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism.
A recognized expert on the larger implications of today's revolution in the Life Sciences, Dr. Stock convened the first major public conference to discuss our potential to select the genes we pass to our children. This symposium drew international attention and opened up a wide public debate on the hitherto taboo topic. He has also convened landmark conferences on genomic testing and anti-aging medicine.
Dr. Stock has published research papers on topics ranging from developmental biology and limb regeneration to laser light scattering, and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics, the International Journal of Bioethics, and the Journal of Evolution and Technology. He makes frequent appearances on radio and television, including NPR, CNN, PBS, Bloomberg, and the BBC, speaks regularly to business, government, and academic audiences, has debated biotech policy with Jeremy Rifkin, Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama, Bill McKibben, George Annas and other prominent voices who would rein in biomedical research, and recently he hosted a television special on key figures in today's biotech revolution.
Dr. Stock received a Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Currently the President and CEO of Signum Biosciences, a company he co-founded in 2002, he is developing therapeutics for Alzheimer's. He is also visiting at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, where he is exploring new regulatory possibilities for the pharmaceutical industry.
November 2005
Dr. John Esposito
Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Professor of Islamic Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
7 p.m., Thursday, November 17, 2005
Lair Student Audiorium
Spokane Community
College
1810 N. Greene St.
Spokane, Washington
Understanding the politics and culture of the Islamic world has become an imperative for America. No one is better equipped to foster this understanding than John Esposito, a world renowned scholar on Islam and the Middle East. Esposito is the author of more than thirty books on Islam and is the editor-in-chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and The Islamic World: Past and Present. His monographs, translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, and European languages, include What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Islam and Politics, and many others. A former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Esposito founded the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in 1993 to foster a better understanding of Islam and of Muslim-Christian relations in the West. He is also a consultant to the U.S. Department of State and to corporations, universities, and the media worldwide.
In his provocative, challenging and refreshingly honest presentations, John Esposito explores the reality of
Islam's relationship with the West, and the resentment and misunderstanding that have characterized this often
troubled relationship. He cuts through the web of misconceptions, helping listeners better understand Muslims
and their place in the modern world.
May 2005
Terry Tempest Williams -
Essayist and Nature Writer
"...(W)hat Williams has come to understand in trying to solve environmental issues is that it is not just a political process, but a spiritual one."
Monday, May 2, 2005
Spokane Community College
1810 N. Greene St.
Spokane, Washington
Special presentation at 7 p.m. in the SCC Lair Auditorium (Bldg. 6)
Terry Tempest Williams is perhaps best known for her book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, where she chronicles the epic rise of the Great Salt Lake and flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in 1983. Written alongside her mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer, believed to be caused by radioactive fallout from the nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950s and '60s, Refuge is now regarded as a classic in American nature writing, a testament to loss and the earth's healing grace. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "There has never been a book like Refuge ...utterly original."
Her most recent book, Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert, traces her lifelong love of and commitment to the desert, inspiring a soulful return to "wild mercy" and the spiritual and political commitment of preserving the fragile redrock wilderness of southern Utah.
Williams grew up within sight of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah. "I write through my biases of gender, geography, and culture," she says. "I am a woman whose ideas have been shaped by the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau; these ideas are then filtered through the prism of my culture and my culture is Mormon. The tenets of family and community which I see at the heart of that culture are then articulated through story." How we as a culture engage in civic life raises political questions, but what Williams has come to understand in trying to solve environmental issues is that it is not just a political process, but a spiritual one. As a writer, Williams seeks to see the world whole, with all its paradoxes, humor, and complexity. Her art form is storytelling where one remembers what it means to be human.
Not only has Williams been identified as someone likely to make "a considerable impact on the political, economic, and environmental issues facing the western states this decade," she has testified before the U.S. Congress twice regarding the environmental links associated with cancer and has been a strong advocate for America's Redrock Wilderness Act. Recently, Williams' work has appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald, and other newspapers as she has questioned the current administration's environmental policies on public land issues, particularly in the American West.
Her other books include Pieces of White Shell - A Journey to Navajoland; Coyote's Canyon: An Unspoken Hunger - Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; and Leap - A Meditation on Hieronymous Bosch's triptych, "The Garden of Earthly Delights." In October 2004, The Orion Society published a trilogy of her essays entitled The Open Space of Democracy, a personal perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement.
Terry Tempest Williams' work has been widely anthologized, having also appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Orion, Outside, and Audubon, among other national and international publications. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship in creative nonfiction, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Community Grant. Williams is recognized as both a teacher and lecturer, passionate about the social issues of our time on the page and in the world.
This presentation is supported in part by the generous contribution of SCC's Associated Student Council.
October 2004
Diversity and Democracy:
Transcending America's Racial Divide
Manning Marable, Ph.D.
Professor of public affairs, political science, and history
Columbia University
7 p.m. - Tuesday, October 19, 2004
The Lair-Student Center (Bldg. 6)
Spokane Community College · 1810 N. Greene St.
» Reception and book signing following the presentation
Historian, political theorist and human rights activist, Manning Marable is one of America's most influential experts on racial politics and the black experience in America. During his compelling presentation, Marable guides his audience through the past and future of race relations in the U.S., concluding with a dynamic vision of a new and inclusive model of democracy for our country.
Marable is founding director of Columbia University's Institute for Research in African-American Studies, considered to be one of the country's most prestigious centers of scholarship on the black American experience. He also has taught at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York; Ohio State University, Columbus; and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
A graduate of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, Marable holds a doctoral degree in American history from the University of Maryland in College Park. He has written or edited 20 books and anthologies, including The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life; Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal: An African-American Anthology (co-authored with Leith Mullings); and Black Liberation in Conservative America. In addition, he writes a political commentary series, "Along the Color Line," which appears in more than 400 newspapers and journals worldwide.
You can learn more about Dr. Marable by visiting his Web site (www.manningmarable.net) or by selecting his name from the list of speakers at the American Program Bureau's Web site.
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