April 28, 2005

Upcoming talks include Toni Morrison

Author Morrison to give Forrest Lecture

Writer Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, will deliver the 2005 Leon Forrest Lecture Monday, May 2. In more than a dozen novels, plays and works of non-fiction, Morrison has explored the African-American experience from its roots in slavery to contemporary times.

Morrison’s lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Ryan Family Auditorium of the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, on the Evanston campus.

Tickets are sold out, but a live video feed of Morrison’s lecture will be made available. Tickets for the video feed are available only at the Norris Box Office. The live video feed will be on view in Lecture Room 2 of the Technological Institute.

Morrison earned a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for “Beloved,” a novel inspired by the true story of a slave named Margaret Garner who killed her own child rather than see her live in slavery. The critically acclaimed novel was turned into a film by Oprah Winfrey.

Silverstein Lecture on genetics, race

The Center for Genetic Medicine Silverstein Lecture Series continues this spring with a panel discussion on genetics and race on May 9 and May 10.

The Silverstein Lectures will be presented in Chicago (Pritzker Auditorium, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 251 E. Huron St.) on May 9, and in Evanston (Pancoe Auditorium, Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 110) on May 10. Receptions will be held at 5:30 p.m. and the lectures will begin at 6:30 p.m.  

The Silverstein Lectures are free and open to the public. They are designed to bring information about important new developments in genetics research and technology to a broad audience and provide a forum where people can hear experts discuss genetics topics of widespread interest in plain English.

For information on the four scholars participating on the panel, go to www.cgm.northwestern.edu/9may2005.htm.