Garrett A. Duncan, Ph.D,
"a terrific asset as a teacher and colleague"
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Assembly Series Sept. 11 speakers open fall schedule By Barbara Rea A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who directed his paper's coverage of Sept. 11 and a Ground Zero volunteer will share the podium during a special Assembly Series event marking the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States. The event, which is the first lecture of the Assembly Series' fall season, will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 11 in Graham Chapel. As national editor for The Boston Globe, Kenneth J. Cooper is responsible for the paper's domestic news coverage. It is from this vantage point that he will share the challenges inherent in covering the unprecedented disaster as it unfolded. Sarah M. Kaufman, a recent University graduate who now lives and works in New York City, will discuss her experience as a volunteer near Ground Zero. For most of Cooper's 25 years in journalism, he has focused on government, politics and social issues. A University alumnus, his first job was with The St. Louis American, then the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He left St. Louis in 1980 to join The Boston Globe as a reporter covering general assignments, the Boston schools and the Massachusetts state house. It was at the Globe, at the age of 28, that Cooper received a Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to a 13-part series called "The Race Factor." The articles examined institutional racism in Boston, focusing on affirmative action at private colleges in the Boston area and comparing race relations in the New England city to those in Philadelphia and Miami. In 1986, Cooper became the first African-American national correspondent of the Knight-Ridder newspaper group, covering major political stories including the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael S. Dukakis. From there, he went to The Washington Post, covering national education issues as well as Congress. From 1996-99, Cooper served as the Post's south Asia bureau chief, where he covered eight developing nations. In addition, Cooper has penned a Washington column as well as feature stories for the now-defunct Emerge magazine, and for Essence, Black Issues in Higher Education, St. Louis Journalism Review, ThinkIndia.com and the Washington University Magazine. Before graduating from the University in 1977, where he earned an English degree, Cooper was active in campus activities, serving in student government and the Association of Black Students and being the news editor of Student Life. Cooper remains an active alumnus and is a member of the board that publishes and advises Student Life. In 1989, Cooper received the University's Distinguished Alumni Award. Active in professional organizations, he belongs to the National Association of Black Journalists, and for several years he directed a minority journalism workshop for high school students. Kaufman graduated from the University in 2001, where she studied science writing with a focus on computer science. Throughout her tenure, she was active in a number of student organizations. She wrote for Student Life, served as an editor for four years and helped facilitate the incorporation of the newspaper. She was a member of Thurtene, a junior honorary, serving as vice president of that organization and helping organize the student-run Thurtene Carnival. Furthermore, Kaufman served as a counselor for new students and led an "alternative" spring break program for students to refurbish homes for low-income families. Since graduating, Kaufman has worked as a communications associate with The New York Academy of Medicine, a nonprofit medical research institution dedicated to enhancing the health of the public in urban areas.
The rest of the fall schedule continues to feature speakers offering a variety of international perspectives. All Assembly Series lectures are held on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel, unless otherwise noted. Each year the University bestows two major awards on selected faculty members. This year's recipients of the Faculty Achievement Awards are Stuart Kornfeld and Barbara Schaal, who will give presentations relating to their research for the Sept. 18 Assembly Series. The lectures will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Laboratory Science Building, Room 300. The Laboratory Science Building is a new building located directly north of Graham Chapel.
On Sept. 25, the influential philosopher Ian Hacking will present a talk called "Body Parts: Large and Small," in which he will explore how new medical and scientific discoveries are transforming the way society thinks about the body. Hacking is the author of several major works in his field, including The Taming of Chance, a cultural history of probability that was ranked by The Modern Library as one of the top 10 works of nonfiction in the 20th century, and Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. He is the University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Another scientific topic with a philosophical perspective will be offered by John Beatty at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, in Rebstock Hall, Room 215. Beatty, the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the annual Thomas Hall Lecture, titled "Genetics, the Atomic Age and the Cold War." In his talk, Beatty will look at the role biology has played in national security issues.
With more than a dozen novels and several major literary awards to his credit, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes is one of the greatest authors writing today. His body of work includes the novels Terra Nostra, Orchids in the Moonlight, The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo (which was made into a film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda) and the newly-published Inez: A Novel, as well as books of essays, plays and short stories. Fuentes also served as ambassador to France from 1975-77. His Oct. 9 talk, "Latinos and Americanos: What's in a Name?" is the Latin American Awareness Week Lecture. Foreign policy expert and Pulitzer Prize-winner Leslie Gelb will present the first Elliot Stein Lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10. Before assuming the directorship for the Council on Foreign Relations, Gelb was with The New York Times as a foreign affairs columnist and op-ed page editor. In addition, Gelb has held a series of diplomatic and research positions; he served as assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs and as director of policy planning and arms control for international security affairs in the Department of Defense. Gelb's talk is titled "Why Values Still Matter."
Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka will present the keynote address for the Black Arts & Sciences Festival Oct. 23. This year's festival theme is "UNCAGED: For Blacks Who Considered Art When Assimilating Wasn't Enuf." Soyinka has served as his nation's voice for a call to democracy and has been imprisoned and exiled as a result. His work includes the plays Madmen and Specialists and Death and the King's Horseman; his autobiographical work, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka; his book of essays, An Open Sore of a Continent; and his book of poetry, A Shuttle in the Crypt. Now a permanent resident of the United States, Soyinka holds the Woodruff Professorship in the Arts at Emory University.
Historian and author Jan Gross will deliver this year's Holocaust Memorial Lecture Nov. 6. His most recent book, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, has received worldwide attention for its revelations concerning the massacre of 1,600 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in 1941. For decades it was believed that the massacre was perpetrated by the Nazis; Gross' findings proved that it was actually done by their gentile neighbors. How the current generation of citizens in the Polish town is dealing with this horrific legacy will be the center of Gross' talk. British journalist Robert Fisk will deliver a talk Nov. 13 called "Report from the Middle East: The Politics of War, Foreign Policy and the Media Since Sept. 11." For 26 years, Fisk has covered events in the Middle East, first with The Times of London and now with the British-based Independent. His knowledge of the region is extensive, and he has covered most of the area's significant events. He has interviewed Osama bin Laden three times, most recently in 1997. Completing the fall Assembly Series season will be a lecture by prominent Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol. The dramatist is best known for his "Ghetto Triptych": Ghetto, Adam and Underground. The three plays, written between 1983-87, deal with the Holocaust. Ghetto, the most famous of the three, has been performed throughout the world and has received international acclaim. Sobol will be visiting campus to attend the premiere of his play, Shooting Magda, being performed Nov. 21-24 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre, Mallinckrodt Student Center, Room 208. His talk will discuss the play, whose plot revolves around the theme of Israeli-Palestinian relations. All Assembly Series programs are free and open to the public. For more information about the Assembly Series lectures, visit the Web site at wupa.wustl.edu/assembly, or e-mail assemblyseries@aismail.wustl.edu to send a question or comment. |
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