October 11, 2001
MacArthur scholars scheduled to speak
What does it mean to be a genius? Five UW professors who have received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships will share their thoughts with the audience in the upcoming lecture series, Scholarly Adventure and Creative Process: UW MacArthur Fellows in the Humanities. The speakers – two historians, two poets and a novelist – will examine the creative processes involved with their own work, linking the creativity they employ to the specifics of their respective topics and disciplines.
The lecture series, sponsored and produced by the UW College of Arts & Sciences and the Alumni Association, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday evenings, Oct. 16 through Nov. 13 in Kane Hall. Ticket information and further details can be found on the web at http://www.washington.edu/alumni/activities/lectures/2001fall.html or by phone at 206-543-0540.
The schedule is:
Oct. 16, Linda Bierds, poet;
Oct. 23, Suzanne Lebsock, legal, economic and social historian;
Oct. 30, Richard Kenney, poet;
Nov. 6, Charles Johnson, novelist; and
Nov. 13, John Toews, intellectual and cultural historian.
