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 Tuesday,
September 30, 7 p.m.
Operation Babylift: Adopting Vietnamese
Children in the Wake of the Vietnam War
Julius S. Held Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall
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Tuesday, March 9, 7p.m.
A Reading and Discussion with Author Roddy Doyle
The James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard HallRoddy Doyle was born
in 1958 in Dublin and is the author five works of fiction:
The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van (1991 Booker Prize
Finalist), Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize Winner),
and the acclaimed best sellers, The Woman Who Walked Into
Doors and A Star Called Henry, and one work of non-fiction,
Rory and Ita. His next novel, Oh, Play That Thing, will
be published in September. Doyle has also written for the
stage and the screen: the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who's
Coming for the Dinner, and an adaptation of The Woman Who
Walked into Doors; the film adaptations of The Commitments
(as co-writer), The Snapper, and The Van; When Brendan Met
Trudy (an original screenplay); the four-part television
series Family for the BBC; and the television play Hell
for Leather. Doyle has written the children's books The
Giggler Treatment and Rover Saves Christmas and contributed
to a variety of publications including The New Yorker ,
the anthology Speaking with the Angel (edited by Nick Hornby),
and the serial novel Yeats is Dead! (edited by Joseph O'Connor).
He lives in Dublin with his family and is currently a Visiting
Professor of English at Barnard College.
Roddy Doyle will read selections from his forthcoming novel,
some short pieces from the multi-cultural paper Metro Eireann,
published monthly in Dublin, and the short story "Recuperation."
 Tuesday,
October 21, 7 p.m.
Klub Klezmer: The Party Grooves from
Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side
James Room, 4th floor, Barnard Hall
Klezmer, the music of Eastern European's long-lost Jewish
shtetl, began as a fusion of elements, from Polish folk
music to Hebrew liturgy. Centuries later, the sound was
reinvented in Manhattan's Lower East Side, by musicians
who were drawn to klezmer
without having lived it. Today, the process remains the
same, fusing contemporary sounds, like jazz and hiphop,
with traditional klezmer's old Yiddish soul. Pioneering
New Klezmer musician, Frank London (Hasidic New Wave, Klezmatics)
will speak at the event, and perform with klezmer/jazz musicians
and Senegalese drummers. Moderated and presented by Vivien
Goldman, the pioneering writer on global music links.
 Tuesday,
November 18, 7 p.m.
Preserving Asylum: Surviving Torture
and Surviving the System
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor, Barnard Hall
Many asylum seekers flee to the United States, seeking safety
from persecution, including torture, and often, they are
physically and emotionally scarred by the abuse they have
endured. In recent years they have increasingly encountered
a system hostile to immigrants arriving in this country.
This is particularly true in the wake of September 11, 2001,
as the United States, as part of the war on terrorism, is
restricting immigration. In this talk, Dr. Allen Keller,
Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School
of Medicine and Director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for
Survivors of Torture, will provide an overview of the challenges
asylum seekers face, discussing, among other issues, their
detention in Immigration and Naturalization Service facilities
and efforts to protect the fundamental right to political
asylum. Click
here to read a recent New York Times article on Dr.
Allen Keller.
 Tuesday,
December 2, 7 p.m.
Exiled in Paris?
The Controversy Around Richard Wright
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor, Barnard Hall
Hazel Rowley, author of the highly acclaimed biography,
Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001), will talk
about "exile" as an idea and how it applied to
Wright. American critics often claim that Wright lost contact
with his roots when he left the United States for France,
and that his writing suffered as a result. Rowley will explore
the myth and the reality of Wright's "exile."
The child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade
education, a self-taught intellectual in the working-class
Communist Party of the 1930s, a black man married to a white
woman, and an expatriate in France after World War II, Richard
Wright was always an outsider but sought to reconcile opposing
cultures in his work.
"How the hell did you happen?" the Chicago sociologist
Robert Park once asked Wright. In her biography of Wright,
Rowley chronicles Wright's extraordinary journey from a
sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown
as a writer and outspoken critic of racism.
 Rowley
has written essays and book reviews, mostly on race issues,
for Partisan Review, Antioch Review, The London Times,
The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Nation and
The Los Angeles Times. She grew up in England and
Australia and was a Rockefeller fellow at the University
of Iowa and a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe College. She is
currently affiliated with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for
Afro-American Studies at Harvard University and lives in
Cambridge. Her highly praised literary biography of Christina
Stead was a New York Times Notable Book of 1994.
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