2003 Dooley Lecture Series
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Thursday, April 24, 2003 Roderick Coover "Burgundy and the Language of Wines" Roderick Coover is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University (1989), an M.A. in English with a specialization in cross-cultural film and performance from Brown University (1994) and a Ph.D. in the History of Culture with a specialization in media arts and anthropology from the University of Chicago (1999). His documentary and experimental films and new media works have been featured at festivals, exhibitions, and conferences including the Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival, M.I.T, and Milwaukee's Center for 20th Century Studies. Coover's papers have been published in journals such as Film Quarterly, Visual Studies, and Visual Anthropology. |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Lewis Brownstein "Religion and Terror" Dr. Lewis Brownstein is a professor of political science at the New Paltz campus of the State University of New York. He is the author of several academic papers and an expert in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003 Azar Nafisi "Literature as Salvation" Azar Nafisi is the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. She is a Visiting Professor and the executive director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics. Azar Nafisi held a fellowship at Oxford University, teaching and conducting a series of lectures on culture and the important role of Western literature and culture in Iran after the revolution in 1979. She taught at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and Allameh Tabatabai before her return to the United States in 1997—earning national respect and international recognition for advocating on behalf of Iran's intellectuals, youth, and especially young women. In 1981, she was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the mandatory Islamic veil and did not resume teaching until 1987. |
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Friday, October 24, 2003 Pierre Laszlo "Orange Juice: The Invention of a Cultural Artifact" Pierre Laszlo is an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Liège, Belgium, and the École Polytechnique in Paris. He is the author of several books including Salt: Grain of Life. |
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