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Mary Robinson, David McCullough, Toni Morrison to Speak in 2006-07 Guilford College Bryan SeriesThe theme for the series is “Exploring our Common Humanity,” and all programs will be at War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro.
Mary Robinson - Sept. 21, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and more recently United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, is the superb example of a woman politician who puts her humanity very much at the forefront of her politics. She is currently the president of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, chairs the Council of Women World Leaders and is a member of the Global Commission on International Migration.
As an academic, legislator and barrister, Robinson has always sought to use law as an instrument for social change, arguing landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights as well as in the Irish courts and the European Court in Luxembourg. In 1988, Robinson and her husband, Nicholas Robinson, founded the Irish Centre for European Law at the University of Dublin, where she has served as chancellor since 1998. She was a member of the Irish senate from 1969-89 before her election as president ( 1990-97 ). Robinson served as the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002.
Since 2004, Robinson has been Professor of Practice in International Affairs at Columbia University, where she teaches international human rights. She was named one of Glamour’s Women of the Year in 2005.
David McCullough - Nov. 2, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
McCullough, author of the bestseller 1776, is twice winner of the National Book Award and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He has been called “a master of the art of narrative history,” and his books have been praised for their exceptional narrative sweep, their scholarship and insight into American life, and for their literary distinction.
1776 has been a continuing national triumph from the time of publication last June when it debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. McCullough’s previous work, John Adams, remains one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read American biographies of all time ( to date, more than two million copies have been sold.
McCullough's other books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave Companions and Truman. As may be said of few writers, none of his books has ever been out of print.
In a crowded, productive career, he has been an editor, essayist, teacher, lecturer, and familiar presence on public television -- as host of “Smithsonian World,” “The American Experience,” and narrator of numerous documentaries including The Civil War. His is also the narrator’s voice in Seabiscuit.
Toni Morrison - March 13, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Morrison is one of the most prominent authors in world literature. Her eight major novels ( The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, Paradise and Love ) have received extensive critical acclaim. She won the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for Song of Solomon and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Since 1989, Morrison has been Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. She holds degrees from Howard University and Cornell University, and has also taught at Yale University, Bard College and Rutgers University.
Morrison, who was a senior editor at Random House for twenty years, received the 2000 National Humanities Medal; the 2000 Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend award; the 1996 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; the 1988 Anisfield Wolf Book Award in Race Relations; and the 1978 Distinguished Writer Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Season passes for new subscribers are on sale for $60. Order forms are available at www.guilford.edu/bryanseries.
Since 1996, the Bryan Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Arts, Humanities and Public Affairs has afforded Guilford students and the Greensboro community the opportunity to hear from national and international leaders, renowned authors and other esteemed individuals. Past Bryan Series speakers have included Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Madeleine Albright, Sidney Poitier and Bill Bradley. The series is endowed by the generous support of Joseph Bryan Jr., a 1960 Guilford graduate and long-time trustee, and the former Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund.
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