Month: October 2008

LEXINGTON, KY.—Orville Schell, director of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and former dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California—Berkeley, will deliver Transylvania’s fall Kenan Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. The lecture, “The U.S. and China: The Most Important Bilateral Relationship in the World,” is free and open to the public. Schell has devoted his professional life to studying, writing about and reporting on Asia, with an emphasis on China. He is director of Asia Society’s Center of U.S.-China Relations, based in New York. The society is the leading global organization working to promote understanding and strengthen relationships among the people and institutions of Asia and the United States. Schell is the author of 14 books, with 10 being on China. His undergraduate degree in Far Eastern history is from Harvard University, and he did graduate work in Chinese history at UC—Berkeley. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia and covered the war in Indochina as a journalist for “The Atlantic Monthly” and “The New Republic.” Prior to his 2007 appointment with Asia Society, Schell was dean of the graduate school of journalism at UC—Berkeley. Among his many honors is the Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award for Asian Journalism. He has written widely about Asia and other topics for “The New York Times Review of Books,” “Time,” “Foreign Affairs,” “The New Yorker” and “Harper’s Magazine.” The Kenan Lecture Series is made

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Michael Bérubé, named one of the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by conservative commentator David Horowitz, will speak at Transylvania Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the William T. Young Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. Bérubé, the Paterno Professor in English Literature and Science, Technology and Society at Penn State, is a leading social critic and one of a new generation of intellectuals who cross over between academe and popular culture. A prolific writer, Bérubé’s essays have appeared in “Harper’s,” “The New Yorker,” “The New York Times Magazine,” “The Washington Post” and “The Nation,” as well as his blogs on issues from the culture wars to professional hockey. He is the author of six books, including “What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and ‘Bias’ in Higher Education.”  His book, “Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child,” was a “New York Times” Notable Book of the Year in 1996 and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio. Bérubé’s newest book, “The Left at War: Cultural Studies and Democratic Internationalism After 9/11,” will be published by New York University Press in 2009. The lecture, titled “The Humanities and the Boundaries of the Human,” is sponsored by Transylvania’s Center for Liberal Education and funded by the Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching. For more information,

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