Events 2009-10

Visiting Scholars, Guest Lecturers
Fall 2009

Sept 13 (Sunday): Paul Chaat Smith, 3-4pm

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Lecture: “Fritz Scholder’s America”

Location: Snite Museum of Art, Annenberg Auditorium

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), a well-known author, cultural critic, and co-curator of the Smithsonian National Museum

of the American Indian’s retrospective on Fritz Scholder will speak at 3:30 p.m. during the Sunday, September 13

opening reception. His campus presentation is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts;

the Native American Student Association; American Studies; Anthropology; Art, Art History and Design; English;

History; and the Snite Museum of Art.

Sept 17 (Thurs): Robert Naumann, 11:45-1:00pm

University of Colorado at Boulder

Lecture: “One Nation Under God: Designing American Identity During the Cold War”

Location: 119 O’Shaughnessy

Sept 28 (Mon): Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, 4:30-5:30pm

University of Arizona

Lecture: “Latinas and the Sainthood”

Location: 210 Debartolo

Oct 7 (Wed): Junot Diaz, 7-8pm

Author, professor MIT

Lecture: readings from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Location: DPAC Main Stage Theater

Nov 16 (Mon): John Fetterman, 8pm

Mayor, Braddock, PA

Lecture: The Mayor of Hell?

Location: McKenna Hall