Kwame Anthony Appiah, Johnnetta Cole '57 Kick Off Spring Convocation Series
February 4, 2013
Communications Staff
The spring 2013 Convocation Series kicks off Thursday, February 7, with influential scholars Kwame Anthony Appiah and Johnnetta Cole ’57. The Convocation Series presents free, public discussions of cutting-edge issues by some of the country’s most prominent thinkers. The talks take place in Finney Chapel. Other speakers this spring are Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer; physicist Lisa Randall; and architect Maya Lin.
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