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The President and Provost's
2009-10 Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series
This program, now in its eighth year, offers the campus and Columbus community opportunities to
benefit from some of the most eminent scholars, artists, and professionals who discuss and exemplify
diversity with excellence. The series extends from October 2009 through May 2010 and will feature:
Step Out on Nothing: An Afternoon with Byron Pitts
October 28, 4:00 p.m. Saxbe auditorium, Drinko Hall
Known for his thought-provoking coverage and his commitment to exceptional storytelling, Byron Pitts is a multiple Emmy award winning journalist. As Chief National Correspondent for CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Pitts was an embedded reporter covering the Iraq War and was recognized for his work under fire. Pitts was also CBS' lead correspondent at Ground Zero immediately following the September 11th attacks and won an Emmy for his coverage. A news veteran with over 20 years of experience, Pitts has been recognized for other major stories including the war in Afghanistan, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the military buildup in Kuwait and the refugee crisis in Kosovo, to name but a few. In 2009 Pitts realized a life-long goal when he was named a Contributing Correspondent to CBS' 60 Minutes in.
bell hooks: "Ending Domination: Diversity Matters"
November 5, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. Saxbe auditorium, Drinko Hall
bell hooks is known for her courageous and provocative critiques of all forms of domination and her engaging, accessible style of writing. One of the most widely read feminist cultural critics of our day, she has authored over thirty books, including several for children, as well as numerous articles for both scholarly and mainstream audiences. Her writing relentlessly investigates the interconnectivity of race, gender, sexuality and class across a wide range of contemporary media and experiences, from pop culture to alternative practices of sustainable agriculture. Born as Gloria Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks took the name of her maternal grandmother as her pen-name, using lower case letters to emphasize modesty. She a PhD in Literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz and she is currently in residence at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, near her hometown-an experience that inspires her most recent book, Belonging: A Culture of Place.
Reading By Percival Everett
January 27, 7:00 p.m.
Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor of English at USC, has written 19 books, including a farcical Western, a savage satire of the publishing industry, a children's story spoofing counting books, retellings of the Greek myths of Medea and Dionysus, and a philosophical tract narrated by a four-year-old. Everett, who teaches courses in creative writing, American studies and critical theory, says he writes about what interests him, which explains his prolific output and the range of subjects he has tackled.
Mahzarin Banaji
April 29, 4:00 p.m.
Mahzarin Banaji is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University (1986) and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She is President-elect of the Association for Psychological Science in 2009-2010. Banaji has served as Associate Editor of Psychological Review and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and she co-edited Essays in Social Psychology and currently serves on an advisory board of the Oxford University Press on Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience. Banaji studies human thinking and feeling as it unfolds in social contexts. Her focus is primarily on mental systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode. In particular, she is interested in the unconscious nature of assessments of self and other humans that reflect feelings and knowledge (often unintended) about their social group membership (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender, class) that underlie the us/them distinction.
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