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Spring lectures set at Academy of Lifelong Learning Editor's note (posted 3:45 p.m., March 29, 2007)--The Academy of Lifelong Learning has revised its April lecture series. To see the revised schedule, go to [www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2007/mar/lectures032907.html]. Editor's note (posted at 9:15 a.m., March 16, 2007)--Today's lecture on “The FBI and 9/11: What Went Wrong?" by Richard Gid Powers has been canceled because of inclement weather. 4:43 p.m., March 14, 2007--UD's Academy of Lifelong Learning's spring lecture series begins at 1 p.m., Friday, March 16, at Arsht Hall in Wilmington, with a talk on “The FBI and 9/11: What Went Wrong?" by Richard Gid Powers, a leading historian specializing in national security and law enforcement. The series, featuring distinguished scholars and writers, will run from 1-2:30 p.m. on selected Fridays at Arsht Hall. Powers is the author of Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI and a professor of history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where he also directs the American Studies Program. On Friday, March 23, Mark Bowden, an Atlantic Monthly national correspondent, lectures on “America Held Hostage: Iran and the U.S.--Yesterday and Today." Bowden is an author, journalist, screenwriter and teacher. His book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War was an international best-seller that spent more than a year on The New York Times best-seller list and was a finalist for the National Lectures scheduled in April include: Friday, April 13--Carole Haber, chairperson and professor in UD's Department of History, will lecture on "The Trials of Laura D. Fair: Sex, Insanity, and Murder in Victorian America.” Friday, April 20--Karen Rosenberg, chairperson and professor in UD's Department of Anthropology, will lecture on "Intelligent Design.” Friday, April 27-- Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and legal affairs editor of The New Republic, will lecture on "The Supreme Court: Why Personality Matters." The lectures are cosponsored by the UD's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call (302) 573-4417. |
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