"Reading: Experiencing Katrina"

William T. Jeanes

Writer-in-Residence for Fall Quarter 2005. Contributor to Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Air & Space magazines; former Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver; former publisher of Car and Driver and Road and Track.

Reading from latest works

Free to the public. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Brock Clark

Brock Clarke has published a novel (The Ordinary White Boy) and two collections of short fiction: What We Won't Do (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) and most recently, Carrying the Torch (winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction). He has published fiction in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, and the New Stories from the South and Pushcart Prize Anthologies. He has been awarded fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Wesleyan Writers' Conferences. He is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.

Readings from "Rotary"

Christina Pugh

Winner of Word Press First Book and Grolier Poetry Prizes, Ruth Lily Poetry and Whiting Humanities Fellowships, three Pushcart Prize nominations, author of Rotary and Gardening at Dusk, and former Northwestern University faculty member.

"The Reportorial Imagination"

William T. Jeanes

Writer-in-Residence for Fall Quarter 2005. Contributor to Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Air & Space magazines; former Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver; former publisher of Car and Driver and Road and Track.

A Reading from "Masterworks of Technology"

Elmer Lewis

NU faculty member, ANS Fellow, Compton Award winner and author of Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture and Design and Introduction to Reliability Engineering.

"Questioning the Purposes on Journalism"

Katherine Boo

Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow; staff writer at the New Yorker; former writer and editor at the Washington Post and the Washington Monthly magazine.

"Reporting on Other Worlds"

Jennifer 8. Lee

Consumer Technology Reporter, "Circuits" Section of the New York Times; former Harvard Yenching Fellow; and winner of 2002 Gold Medal from Society of Newspaper Designers.

Reading from"The Redemptive Self"

Dan McAdams

NU faculty member, APA Fellow; director, Foley Center for the Study of Lives and author of The Person: An Integrated Introduction to Personality Psychology and Geverativity and Adult Development: How and Why We Care for the Next Generation.