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"From Apartheid to Darfur: Africa's Struggle Against Disdain"
September 11, 2007
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chris Abani, Chenjerai Hove, and Alexandra Fuller join Wole Soyinka to explore some of the
challenges facing Africa today: Has the legacy of colonialism permanently impaired pan-African unity? To
what extent are Africans themselves responsible for solving the continent's seemingly
intractable problems? And how should Western nations be held accountable for the
war, famine, and genocide that continue to rage?
(read more)
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Derek Walcott
April 19, 2007
Moyer Student Union, UNLV
Moyer Student Union, UNLV
Distinguished poet, playwright, Nobel Laureate and visual artist Derek Walcott reads and discusses selections of his work. Walcott spent the month of April 2007 at UNLV as the Elias Ghanem Chair of creative writing, a post recently vacated by BMI Fellow Wole Soyinka, and is teaching a graduate poetry seminar through the department of English.
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"The Vietnam War in Light of Iraq"
March 21, 2007
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Authors Tim O'Brien and Robert Stone headline a panel discussion of the politics and lessons of the Vietnam era, viewed through the lens of the current conflict in Iraq. The panel includes historian Charles Herring, Iraq War veteran and conscientious objector Jimmy Castellanos, emerging writer and Vietnam native Vu Tran, and UNLV English professor John Irsfeld. UNLV Distinguished Professor of History Joseph (Andy) Fry moderates.
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Richard Wiley
March 7, 2007
Barrick Museum Auditoriuml, UNLV
Barrick Museum Auditoriuml, UNLV
BMI Associate Director, UNLV Professor of English, and acclaimed author Richard Wiley reads from his novel Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. A sword-swinging story set against the historic opening
of Japan to the West, Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show is the prequel to Wiley's
PEN/Faulkner award-winning novel Soldiers in Hiding.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
November 20, 2006
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Esteemed cultural historian and literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois
Professor of Humanities and chair of African American Studies at Harvard, discusses and shows clips from his new PBS documentary, "African American Lives."
(read more)
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John Dean
November 1, 2006
Moyer Student Union Theatre, UNLV
Moyer Student Union Theatre, UNLV
John W. Dean, a key Watergate witness, offers his views on the current political climate. Dean, a former White House counsel to President Nixon, also reads from and discusses his book Conservatives without Conscience. (read more)
