A Reading from "The Logic of Persecution: Free Speech and the McCarthy Era"

Martin Redish

NU faculty member, Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy; author of The Logic of Persecution:Free Speech and the McCarthy Era, The Constitution as Political Structure, The Federal Courts in the Political Order and Federal Jurisdiction.

A Conversation: "The Dictionary of Republicanism"

Kristina vanden Heuvel

Editor in Chief of The Nation, co-editor of Taking Back America and Taking Down the Radical Right, editor of A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11,2001.

"Readings from Recent Nonfiction"

Alex Kotlowitz

NU Writer in Residence for Winter Quarter 2006. Contributer to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and PBS Frontline. Author of "There Are No Children Here" and "The Other Side of the River."

Lecture "Loving Our 'Best Things': Black Women (Re)Write Family and Reproductive Politics"

Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Fund, Illinois Arts Council, Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writer's Conference, and the Illinois Young Author's Commission. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Michigan Quarterly Review and Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New School University in New York City and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago.

A reading from "Worth"

Robyn Schiff

NU Faculty member, author of Worth (Kuhl House Poets series from the University of Iowa Press), contributor to Black Warrior Review, Explosive, Fence, Volt and Verse.

"Reporting Consequences"

Meg and Dan Baum

Staff writers to The New Yorker and authors of Smoke Mirrors:the War and Drugs and the Politics of Failure and Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty

"Chicago As Muse "

Alex Kotlowitz

NU Writer in Residence for Winter Quarter 2006. Contributer to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and PBS Frontline. Author of "There Are No Children Here" and "The Other Side of the River."

"Other Stories, Other Americas"

Charlie LeDuff

Pulitzer Prize winning national correspondent for The New York Times, former reporter for Alaska Fisherman's Journal, and member of the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe of Michigan.

A Conversation with Kenji Yoshino: "The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights"

Kenji Yoshino

Deputy Dean of Yale Law School and author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights -- about which Publisher's Weekly wrote: "Seldom has a work of such careful intellectual rigor and fairness been so deeply touching " The conversation will include a Q&A. Hope you can join us.

The event is being sponsored by: Center for the Writing Arts, Medill School of Journalism, and the Student Chapter, National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association.

A reading from "Modern Dance, Negro Dance:Race in Motion"

Susan Manning

NU faculty member, De la Torre Bueno Prize winner, author of Modern Dance, Negro Dance:Race in Motion and Ecstasy and the Demon, and president of the Society of Dance History Scholars.