2012-13 Worldwise Arts & Humanities Dean's Lecture Series

The 2012-13 WORLDWISE Arts and Humanities Dean's Lecture Series features four exciting speakers who will stimulate conversations about issues that cross arts and humanities disciplines.

The 2012-13 WORLDWISE Arts and Humanities Dean's Lecture Series features four exciting speakers who will stimulate conversations about issues that cross arts and humanities disciplines.

The WORLDWISE Arts & Humanities Dean's Lecture Series provides an opportunity for the college faculty, students and staff to join together with colleagues across campus for stimulating conversation about issues that cross our disciplines. Lectures and performances may address either enduring or emerging questions central to the arts and humanities, or questions arising from other disciplines to which the arts and humanities might speak. In addition to presenting a major public event, each lecturer interacts in smaller settings with faculty, graduate students and/or undergraduates. 

All WORLDWISE Arts & Humanities Dean's Lecture Series events are free (ticketed) and open to the public.

David Alan Grier
Monday, November 12, 2012, 7 PM
Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Center

The multitalented comedian and film, television, and Broadway star discusses the creative process, comedy and improvisation, music and his life experiences with culture and race. Named one of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time,” Grier was most recently nominated for a 2012 Tony Award for his performance in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess.

Eric Schlosser
Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 5:30 PM
Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Clarice Smith Center

Dubbed in one review as “a social crusader for the new millennium,” award-winning journalist, producer of the critically acclaimed documentary “FOOD, Inc.,” and best-selling author of “Reefer Madness,” “Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food,” and “ Fast Food Nation” — selected byTIME magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books of all time.

Chimamanda Adichie
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 5:30 PM
Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Clarice Smith Center

2008 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient and award-winning author of “Half of a Yellow Sun,” “Purple Hibiscus,” and “The Thing Round Your Neck,” which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in Africa.

Cathy Davidson
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 5:30 PM
Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Clarice Smith Center

Professor of English at Duke University, renowned scholar in Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, and prolific author of “Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.” In 2010, President Obama nominated Davidson to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities.