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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Wendell Berry, Kentucky native, environmental activist and author of more than 40 books, will read from his recent poetry at Transylvania Thursday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m. in the William T. Young Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the poetry reading. Berry has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Vachel Lindsay Prize from “Poetry” and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Berry’s essays have covered everything from agriculture to global economics, and his poetic subjects include everything from the Kentucky countryside to the Vietnam War. He lives and works with his wife, Tanya, on their farm in Port Royal. Berry was born in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1934. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Kentucky, and received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Berry taught at the University of Kentucky from 1964-77 and from 1987-93. He has also taught at Stanford University, New York University and Georgetown College. The lecture is sponsored by the Delcamp Visiting Writer series. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

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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LEXINGTON, Ky.—On Friday, September 26, The World Voices Series at Transylvania University presents the Tami Tango Trio from Buenos Aires, for a night of tango.  The concert will take place in Carrick Theater at 7:30 p.m. The Tami Tango Trio will showcase tangos, milongos and valses, as well as other traditional music. The trio has recorded five albums and toured throughout the United States and Latin America. “I’m thrilled that Transylvania is dedicated to the awareness of world music-cultures,” says World Voices Series director and professor of music Larry Barnes. “It’s vital that we engage peoples of the world proactively, and bring their values to light. This series gives the community an opportunity to do just that, through the intense communicative power of music and dance.” In recent years, the World Voices Series has presented music of the Middle East, Brazilian Capoiera music and dance and Indian classical raga, featuring musicians of international stature. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.