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| Bill Bradley | Frank Deford | Jo Luck |
Former presidential candidate Bill Bradley, award-winning sportswriter Frank Deford and Heifer International chief Jo Luck headline a series of speakers who will address Lyon College audiences this academic year.
Bradley, a former U.S. senator from New Jersey, will be speak at the Lyon College President’s Council meeting at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock on Feb. 22. All the other events will be on the Lyon campus in Batesville and are free and open to the public. For more information, call (870) 698-4242.
• Phillip McMath, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20, Bevens Music Room. McMath, a Little Rock attorney and novelist, will speak as part of the Visiting Writers Series. His works include Native Ground (1984, August House) and Arrival Point (1991, M&M Press). McMath has been a lawyer with the McMath Law Firm since 1973. He has also written Dress Blues (a full-length play produced by the Weekend Theatre in Little Rock in 1999). McMath will be a visiting instructor in English and teach creative writing of fiction at Lyon this fall.
• Jo Luck, 11 a.m. Oct. 22, Couch Garden. Luck, president and chief executive officer of Heifer International since 1992, will speak at the college’s Founders’ Day Convocation. She also will be presented an honorary degree.
• Dr. Anne Prescott, 7 p.m., Oct. 27, Bevens Music Room. As part of the Japan Lecture Series, Dr. Prescott will lecture on “Koto Music of Japan: Traditional to Modern.” She has been playing the koto (13-string instrument) for more than 20 years. Dr. Prescott is an outreach coordinator at the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University.
• Frank Deford, 7 p.m. Nov. 15, Nucor Auditorium. Deford, senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated, will be Lyon’s Patterson Lecturer this year. Deford is an award-winning journalist and author of 14 books, two of which have been made into movies. He is a regular correspondent on HBO’s “RealSports with Bryant Gumbel,” and can also be heard every Wednesday on the “Morning Edition” of National Public Radio. He has been voted U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times.
• Byron Motley, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17, Nucor Auditorium. Motley, renowned singer, filmmaker and speaker, will present a lecture during this year’s Diversity Week. Motley’s speech, “The Negro Baseball Leagues: An American Legacy,” discusses the history and culture of the African-American baseball leagues.
• Jennifer Haigh, 11 a.m. Jan. 31, Nucor Auditorium. Haigh, Lyon’s Creative Writing Visiting Fellowship winner, will present a lecture on the craft of writing fiction. Haigh is the author of the critically acclaimed Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding first fiction. Haigh also will present a reading from her work at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 in Bevens Music Room.
• Andrea Hollander Budy, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14, Mabee-Simpson Library. Budy, Lyon Writer-in-Residence, will present “An Evening of Love Poems.” She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Other Life and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.
• Dr. Scott Schnell, 7 p.m. Feb. 23, Derby Center Lecture Hall. Schnell will lecture on “Ritual and Popular Protest – A Different Look at Japanese Festivals” as part of the Japan Lecture Series. He is currently associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa where he teaches courses on cultural ecology, the anthropology of religion, ritual and performance, and Japanese society and culture.
• Bret Lott, 11 a.m. lecture in Nucor Auditorium and 7:30 p.m. reading in Bevens Music Room, March 21. Hailed in the Los Angeles Times, as “one of the most important and imaginative writers in America today,” Lott will present the Heasley Prize Lecture and Reading. He is the author of the novels A Song I Knew by Heart, Jewel (an Oprah’s Book Club Selection in 1999), Reed’s Beach, A Stranger’s House, The Man Who Owned Vermont, and The Hunt Club. A public interview and luncheon will be held at noon, March 21, in Bevens Music Room.
• Alice Friman, 7:30 p.m. April 6, Bevens Music Room. Friman, the author of seven collections of poetry, will present a poetry reading as part of the Visiting Writers Series. Her most recent collections are Inverted Fire and Zoo, winner of the Ezra Pound Poetry Award and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. There will be a brown-bag lunchtime talk at noon in the Flanders Room of the Lyon Building.
• Dr. Guy Consolmagno, 7:30 p.m. April 6, Derby Center Lecture Hall. As a prelude to the annual meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Dr. Consolmagno will lecture on astronomy. He serves as curator of the Vatican Meteorite Collection at the Observatory in Rome, one of the largest in the world. His research explores the connections between meteorites and asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar system.