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Fall 2005
Dickinson College offers a vast array of lectures, performances, exhibitions, activities and sports that enrich the life of our community. This fall we are particularly excited about a number of events, including a visit from a Booker Prize-winning author, a thought-provoking lecture on genocide by a Pulitzer Prize winner and the performance of a play that will help open a dialogue about race. For a complete list, see the Semester Calendar of Events.On Sept. 28 plan to attend the public reading by renowned British novelist and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan, who is the first recipient of the college's Stellfox Prize and Residency for Literary Excellence, funded by the Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program. Many of you may have heard Mr. McEwan or read his insightful essays this summer as he became one of Britain's most visible commentators following the tragic subway bombings.
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 To commemorate Constitution Day, Geoffrey R. Stone, professor of law at the University of Chicago, will reflect on the very timely topic, Civil Liberties in Wartime. The Sept. 26 event is the 2005 Pflaum Lecture and Constitution Address. The Glover Lecture will be delivered by Nobel Prize winner David Lee, professor of physics at Cornell University, on Sept. 28. Prof. Lee will focus on Superconductivity and Superfluidity: A Century of Discovery. On Oct. 5, The Clarke Center and the Korean Economic Institute are sponsoring Flashpoints on the Peninsula: The Koreas in 2005, a two-part symposium that explores the prospect for conflict in this volatile region. |
 Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, will present the college's annual Morgan Lecture on Nov. 15. She will summarize a six-year investigation of American responses to genocides of the 20th century and the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. foreign policy in the global arena. The former chairman of Honeywell International Inc. and CEO of Allied Signal, Larry Bossidy, will receive the 2005 Rush Award and will speak on Nov. 29. Mr. Bossidy, author of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, will address how a liberal arts education helped shape his career as a leading figure in the business world. |
 The play Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman served as this year's Common Reading, which involved first-year students, parents, faculty and staff. Set on a college campus, the play explores the complex intersection between public and private feelings toward race in contemporary American society. Beginning with discussions during first-year student's orientation activities, the play is serving as a focal point for dialogue throughout the fall, culminating in the Mermaid Players' production of the play in late October. The Trout Gallery will offer two very different exhibitions: Francisco Goya-Los Caprichos Etchings and Aquatints will run from Sept. 2 through Oct. 15; and Designing for Victory 1914-1945: Posters from the United States Army Heritage and Education Center will run Oct. 28 through Jan. 14, 2006. For more music, art, theatre and dance, see the Calendar of Arts.
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