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Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne’s (IPFW) Omnibus Lecture Series, featuring nationally recognized speakers, celebrates its fifteenth season of offering free lectures to the public.
Marlee Matlin and Henry Winkler, Award-Winning Actors and Activists
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
FREE RESERVED TICKETS REQUIRED. Call 260-481-6555.
A Conversation with Marlee Matlin and Henry Winkler
When 12-year-old Marlee Matlin met Henry Winkler, “The Fonz” from ABC’s Happy Days, they struck a special bond instantly. Winkler met Matlin while she was attending a community theater where she began acting at seven years old. He enthusiastically told Matlin to follow her dream of becoming a professional actress despite her profound deafness. In 1986’s Children of a Lesser God, she won the Best Actress Oscar. Together, Winkler and Matlin reflect on their connection, individual journeys, and shared belief that anything is possible if you follow your dreams.
James Galbraith, Author and Economist
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
The Great Financial Crisis at Two Years
James Galbraith’s Ivy League education and professional affiliations make him an ideal forecaster for America’s financial health and economic climates elsewhere. He is the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. Galbraith’s most recent book, The Predatory State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008), discusses the gap between conservative
ideology and its use and abuse to cover up the George W. Bush administration’s Predator State, which he argues took advantage of the public sector and undermined public institutions for private profit.
Andrew Sullivan, Journalist and Commentator
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
Friendship: The Forgotten Relationship
Andrew Sullivan uses his columns, online blog, and frequent television appearances to question the present course of conservatism in America, arguing for the revival of conservative traditions for the Republican Party, not religious ideology. As senior editor and blogger at The Atlantic and as a columnist for the Sunday Times of London, Sullivan is one of the most provocative political and social commentators today. His blog, The Daily Dish, is found on TheAtlantic.com, where his
incisive and blunt observations about the news inspired Playboy to rank it no. 1 on its list of Top 10 Political Blogs in America.
Jamaica Kincaid , Author and Professor
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
Reading and Growing Up Under Colonial Rule
Jamaica Kincaid skillfully tempers the boundary between poetry and prose. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, she left her native country of Antigua at age 16, bound for New York. Following years of college coursework and freelance writing projects, she secured a position at a teenage girl’s magazine. But it was her work in The Village Voice that led to greater promise with The New Yorker and her first book, At the Bottom of the River. (1983). Kincaid’s other award-winning novels include Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (2005).
Neil LaBute, Writer and Director
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
Changing Course: The Serpentine Road to Success
Neil LaBute is a seasoned talent of stage and screen who has roots in Fort Wayne as well as IPFW. An assistant professor of theatre at the university in the early 1990s, he returned to the city later in the decade to film his directorial debut, In the Company of Men (1997), an award-winning, dark commentary on men who
dislike women. His most recent play, reasons to be pretty (2008) received three Tony nominations, including Best Play. His most recent film, Death at a Funeral, is currently in post-production and will headline Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, and Tracy Morgan.
Christopher Buckley, Author and Satirist
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
An Evening with Christopher Buckley
Author and social/political satirist Christopher Buckley has compiled quite the life résumé to draw upon-merchant marine, magazine managing editor, best-selling author, and chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush-all before he turned 30. Today, Buckley is the author of 13 books including his most recent,
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009), which documents the passing of his politically conservative father, William, and his New York socialite mother, Patricia. In addition, he has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.
The Matlin/Winkler lecture is the only presentation this season that will require free reserved tickets. Tickets can be reserved beginning Sept. 4 by calling 260-481-6555 or requested online at www.ipfw/rhinehart. Tickets can be mailed by request for $1 up to one week before the event. Tickets may be picked up at the Rhinehart Music Center box office Monday through Friday, 12:30-6:30 p.m. All reserved tickets must be picked up by 4 p.m. on the day of the event or they will
be forfeited. Reserved tickets will hold seats until 7:15 p.m. Thereafter, all unoccupied seats will be released for stand-by patrons. Recital hall overflow seating will be available with live video of the lecture.
Each lecture will be held on the IPFW campus in The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center’s 1,600-seat Auer Performance Hall. All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is no charge for the events and free parking is accessible in nearby lots.
The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center is located on the north end of campus in the arts plaza next to the Ernest E. Williams Theatre and the Visual Arts Building.
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