UMC Local Link Site for Great Conversations Series
The University of Minnesota’s College of Continuing Education is sponsoring a series of discussions featuring a roster of influential, world-renowned experts grappling with compelling and complex issues of our time. The “Great Conversations” series will feature five discussions over five months in early 2002.
Each of these discussions will originate at the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the U of M’s Twin Cites Campus and will be telecast live to the U of M’s coordinate campuses. The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Concerts and Lectures Committee will co-host this series in our area.
Admission will be free and open to the public at the UMC site, room 30 of the University Teaching and Outreach Center (UTOC), located on the northern edge of the UMC campus. Each discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. on its respective Tuesday evening.
Scheduled topics and speakers include:
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Tuesday, January 15, 2002
”Inside Politics” with U of M President Mark G. Yudof and Paul Begala, political strategist and author -
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
”Visionary Architecture” with Thomas Fisher, Dean of the U of M College of Architecture, and Steven Holl, Time Magazine’s Architect of the Year -
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
”The Stem Cell Revolution” with Catherine Verfaillie, Director of the U of M Stem Cell Institute, and Austin Smith, Director of the Centre for Genome Research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland -
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
”The Media” with Jane Kirtley, Director, Silha Center of Media Ethics and Law, and Brian Lamb, Founder and CEO, C-SPAN -
Tuesday, May 7, 2002
”Black Intellectual History” with John Wright, U of M Professor of Afro-American Studies, and Cornel West, Harvard Professor and best selling author
For more information about the series go to: www.cce.umn.edu/conversations.
Great Conversations is produced by the U of M College of Continuing Education with the generous support of the McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment. Additional support has been provided by Anchor Bank of Wayzata and the Roberta Mann Foundation.
Disability accommodations will be provided at the UMC site upon request. Contact 218-281-8506.
Posted 01/07/2002
Contact: Andrew Svec,
218-281-8435