Convocation Series
Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
An Evening with Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich
“[Sondheim] is now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater.”
“[Rich] sees politics as theater. His vision and his voice are the result of the skills honed as a theater critic who expanded his reach to broader cultural criticism and then narrowed it again to political criticism”
Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 8 p.m.
Newt Gingrich
What's at stake: Election 2008
“Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional”
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8 p.m.
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution
“Pollan … has emerged as an important critic of the industrial food complex that grows, processes and sells what we eat. He has ‘an enormous influence’ on how Americans think about food, says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University.”
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 8 p.m.
Eric Bogosian
“Mr. Bogosian’s work has always trod the line betwen incisive character comedy and something deeper and scarier. At the heart of his vision of humanity is the idea that so-called civilized behavior is just a middle-class luxury”
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 8 p.m.
Diane Rehm
The Diane Rehm Show is “one of the most interesting talk shows in the country.”
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 8 p.m.
Toni Morrison
Details to follow.
About the Oberlin Convocation Series
The Oberlin Convocation Series, presented under the auspices of the Finney Lecture Committee and the Office of the President, presents free, public discussions of cutting-edge issues by some of the country’s most prominent thinkers. These talks are open to the public and take place in Finney Chapel. All lectures begin at 8 p.m. For additional information, please contact the Office of Public Programs at 440.775.6785.