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The President and Provost's
2008-09 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 2008 through May 2009 and will feature:
Lucille Clifton
An Evening of Poetry
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Film & Video Theater
Wexner Center
Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, fiction writer and author of children's books. She is the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the top awards given to American poets. A distinguished professor of humanities at St. Mary's College in Maryland, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Emmy award.
Amy Tan
Friday, May 22, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Mershon Auditorium
1871 N. High Street
An award-winning fiction writer whose novels are all New York Times best-sellers. They include The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's
Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She served as co-producer and co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club. Born in America to immigrant parents from China, Tan's current work includes
writing a new novel.
http://osu.edu/diversity
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