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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10

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Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday
November 11
6:30 p.m.
David Shenk '88  
Literary Investigative Journalism
Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Pembroke Campus
 David Shenk

Nonfiction Writing Program: The Rise of the New Taliban

Monday
November 16
4:00 p.m.
David Rohde '90, Reporter, The New York Times

List Art Center, Room 120, 64 College St.

This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English.

Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10

See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday
March 17
6:30 p.m.
David Shields '78
Literary Nonfiction
Location TBD
 David Shields

Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10

See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Thursday
April 8
Mara Liasson '77
Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture
NPR National Political Reporting
Location TBA
Liasson photo


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The Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture

Thursday
September 24
5:00 p.m.
Sharon Marcus '86, Columbia University
Salome and the Drama of Celebrity
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., 2nd floor
Sharon Marcus flyer

Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10

See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday
October 7
6:30 p.m.
Susan Cheever '65, Writer and Teacher
The Art of Literary Memoir and Biography
Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Pembroke Campus
 Susan Cheever

Lecture: Helen Thoreau's Anti-Slavery Scrapbook: Abolitionism and Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts

Lecture by Robert Gross, sponsored by the Howard Foundation. Thursday, October 8, in Pembroke 305. For more information about the Howard Foundation, see their web page. Cosponsored by the English Department. Robt Gross Lecture

Monday
October 19
5:30 p.m.
Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University
Echoes of War: Biopolitics and Aesthetic Shock in Schiller, Goethe, and Wordsworth
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., 2nd floor
 Marc Redfield

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