Groundbreakers: People, Ideas, and Innovations That Changed the World
JOE KLEIN
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 • 7 p.m. • Jepson Alumni Center
TIME Magazine columnist Joe Klein offers a provocative look at the world's leaders. The once-anonymous author of Primary Colors knows bold.
Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science and the Department of Journalism
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 • 6 p.m. • Queally Hall, Ukrop Auditorium
Strategic adviser to Fortune 500 companies, Frans Johansson, discusses groundbreaking innovation and lets you in on the secret of harnessing great ideas.
Cosponsored with the Robins Executive Speaker Series at the Robins School of Business
Wednesday, January 23 • 7 p.m. • Jepson Alumni Center
*4 p.m. Movie Screening of Shakespeare Behind Bars • Jepson Alumni Center
Curt Tofteland, creator of the Shakespeare Behind Bars program, is breaking barriers with the nation's first program that uses Shakespeare to build community with the incarcerated. All the world's a stage.
Cosponsored with the Department of Theatre & Dance
Wednesday, February 27 • 7:30 p.m. • Camp Concert Hall
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted nuclear historian Richard Rhodes discusses Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.
Cosponsored with the Department of History and the Department of Journalism
Part of the James MacGregor Burns Lectureship in Leadership Studies and Biography
Monday, April 15 • 7 p.m. • Jepson Alumni Center
The former president of Duke University and the first woman president of both a women's college and a major research university, political theorist Nan Keohane shares insights about leadership out front and discusses the behind-the-scenes leadership of social and political movements around the globe.
Cosponsored with Westhampton College and the WILL Program
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