March 23, 2001
The University's Assembly Series will sponsor three speakers next week: former Sen. Paul Simon, author bell hooks and author and professor of classics Elizabeth Asmis.
Simon, former senior senator from Illinois, will deliver the Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman and the Thomas C. Hennings Memorial lectures at 4 p.m. Monday in Graham Chapel.
Simon is director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), which he established after his 1997 retirement from the U.S. Senate. He also teaches political science and journalism at SIUC.
Simon was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984, where he served on the Budget, Labor and Human Resources, Judiciary, Indian Affairs and Foreign Relations committees.
Simon has written 19 books and has received 52 honorary degrees.
hooks to give Women's Week Keynote Lecture
hooks will deliver the annual Women's Week Keynote Lecture at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Graham Chapel.
hooks is a professor of English at the City College of New York. She has written numerous books, with many focusing on black women and issues of race, class and gender.
hooks' first book, "Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism" (1981), was ranked by Publishers Weekly in 1992 among the 20 most important women's books of the last 20 years. Other books she has written include "Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation" (1994), "Killing Rage: Ending Racism" (1995) and most recently "Salvation: Black People and Love" (2001).
hooks has written a book of poetry and two autobiographical works. She writes for various journals, including Postmodern Culture and Z.
hooks earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1973, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and a doctorate from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1983.
Asmis to deliver Biggs Residency in the Classics
Asmis will give the annual John and Penelope Biggs Residency in the Classics at 4 p.m. Thursday in Graham Chapel.
Asmis is a professor of Classical language and literatures at the University of Chicago. Her teaching covers Greek and Roman philosophy and literary criticism. Asmis' research focuses on Hellenistic poetics, stoic ethics, Cicero's political philosophy and the language of Plato.
She is the author of "Epicurus' Scientific Method" (1984). She has written numerous articles on Plato, Philodemus, Lucretius, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, published in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, the American Journal of Philology, and Classical Quarterly.
The three lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-5285 or visit the Assembly Series Web page at http://wupa.wustl.edu/assembly.
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