Honors Institute Distinguished Guests
CARL HIAASEN
This Spring the Elkin Isaac Research Symposium Committee is pleased to
announce that Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald columnist and three-time
Pulitzer prize nominee, will be this year's keynote speaker. Hiaasen's
columns have long been scathing indictments of the lack of control over
the development and management of the south Florida environment and its
limited resources and that cynicism is even more unbridled in his
novels.
As a prelude to requesting support from Academic
Affairs, we are seeking expressions of interest for a coterie developed
around Carl Hiaasen's earliest novel, "Tourist Season." We will provide
a "course pack" of selected columns so that participants are more able
to understand how his columns and satire influence his works of fiction.
Hiaasen will offer the keynote address at the Elkin Isaac Research
Symposium in April and we are working to include a discussion of this
book with him and coterie participants, as well as students, as a part
of his visit.
Several reviews follow:
"A vacationing Shriner disappears, the only clue to
his demise --- his fez awash on a Miami beach. The director of the
Chamber of Commerce dies with a toy rubber alligator in his throat. It's
the height of South Florida's tourist season and the Orange Bowl is
nigh. The Chamber of Commerce is panicked as more tourists vanish. Will
Brian Keyes, former reporter turned PI, be able to stop the
eco-terrorist carnage by crocodile? We are introduced to Hiaasen's
singularly twisted and rollicking sense of humor in this, the first of
Hiaasen's South Florida fiendishly funny thrillers." --- Reviewed by Roz
Shea © Copyright 1996-2008, Bookreporter.com. All rights reserved.
"Wonderful...lively... fun...a remarkable example of
what talented writers are doing these days with the mystery novel". -
Tony Hillerman, The New York Times Book Review
"A dark, funny book full of irony and spice. I loved
it!"-- Robert B. Parker
Hiaasen's website: http://www.carlhiaasen.com/
Kwame Anthony Appiah
This year, the Prentiss M. Brown Distinguished lecturer
is Kwame Anthony Appiah. Professor Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller
University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
Professor Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of
Philosophy at Princeton University.
Professor Appiah is the Chair of the Board of the
American Council of Learned Societies and also the President of the
Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association.
He will speak in Towsley Hall, on September 20th, at
7:00pm on topics related to his 2007 book: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a
World of Strangers.
A description of some of professor Appiah's remarkable
range of accomplishments may be found at his website: http://www.appiah.net/.
We expect the evening with him to be a truly remarkable one.
Gerald Cleaver -- September 11,
2006
Matt Wilson -- October 11, 2006
Dr. James Elkins
November 1, 2004
There will be a reception followed by a Q & A in Bobbitt
at 5:00pm
Dr. Elkins will be speaking in Norris 101 at 7:00p.m.
Gloria
Steinem April 15, 2004
Click here for Photographs of Honors Students
with Gloria Steinem
Click here for the
Honors
Newsletter article about Gloria Steinem
Margaret Lowman October 23, 2003
Dr. Lowman will be speaking at Goodrich Chapel @ 7:00p.m. with a book
signing in the Kellogg Center Living room to follow immediately after
Salman Rushdie
April 24, 2003
Ted Conover
October 17 & 18, 2003
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