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		Scott Russell Sanders: ties that bind Click here to view the talk *reproduction by permission of the author [.pdf format] September 29th 2003 Providence Journal Auditorium Scott Russell Sanders is the author of eighteen books, including Staying Put, Hunting for Hope, and The Force of Spirit. For his work in nonfiction, he has won the Lannan Literary Award and the John Burroughs Essay Award, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lilly Endowment. In all of his books he is concerned with our place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the character of community, and the search for a spiritual path. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. He and his wife Ruth, a biochemist, have reared two children in their home town of Bloomington, in the hardwood hill country of the White River Valley.

		A night of independent film, living in america: stories of culture, conflict and immigration View the schedule for the film series October 6, 2003 Columbus Theatre - In My Own Skin: The Complexity of Living as an Arab in America (Nikki Byrd and Jennifer Jajeh) - I Call Myself Persian: Iranians in America (Tanaz Eshaghian and Sara Nodjoumi) - My American Father (Shawn Hainsworth) - Days of Waiting (Steven Okazaki) Post screening discussion: Filmmaker Shawn Hainsworth and Nasser Zawia, President of Masjid Alhoda (Muslim Community Center of Kingston). Post-screening discussion with: Patricia Symonds, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, and Elvys Ruiz, President, Instituto Duartino of Rhode Island

		John R. MacArthur: Disreputable Defenders of the First Amendment: From Colonel McCormick to Larry Flynt Click here to view the talk reproduction by permission of the author [.pdf format] October 20, 2003 Providence Journal Auditorium Awarding of the Tom Roberts Prize for Creative Achievement in the Humanities to Al Klyberg Click here to view the acceptance speech* *reproduction by permission of the author [.pdf format] John R. (Rick) MacArthur, is an award-winning reporter and author, as well as the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, a position he has held since 1983—three years after he initiated the magazine’s rescue with the formation of the Harper’s Magazine Foundation. He writes a monthly column for the Providence Journal and for Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe & Mail. Mr. MacArthur is the author of two books: Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War and, most recently, The Selling of ‘Free Trade’: NAFTA, Washington and the Subversion of American Democracy. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and many other newspapers and magazines.