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Steven Fein—September 28, 2010, 7:30 pm

Diversity Day Speaker: Steven Fein, professor of psychology at Williams College. Dr. Fein's primary research interests are stereotypes and prejudice, suspicion, and attribution theory and how the media affects both men and women’s views of women. Fein is co-author of “Hype and Suspicion: The Effects of Pretrial Publicity, Race, and Suspicion on Jurors' Verdicts”, which appeared in the April 9, 2010 edition of the Journal of Social Issues.

Azar Nafisi—October 20, 2010

Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature and teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics. Azar Nafisi held a fellowship at Oxford University, teaching and conducting a series of lectures on culture and the important role of Western literature and culture in Iran after the revolution in 1979. She taught at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and Allameh Tabatabai before her return to the United States in 1997. In 1981, she was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the mandatory Islamic veil and did not resume teaching until 1987.

Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. Earning high acclaim and an enthusiastic readership, Reading Lolita in Tehran is an incisive exploration of the transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny. The book spent over 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Reading Lolita in Tehran has been translated in 32 languages and has won diverse literary awards. 

Learn more about her here.

José Limón Dance Co—January 12, 2011

Acclaimed for its dramatic expression, technical mastery, and expansive, yet nuanced movement, the Limón Dance Company illustrates the timelessness of José Limón’s work and vision. Founded in 1946 by José Limón and Doris Humphrey, the company is now led by Carla Maxwell, who worked closely with Limón before becoming artistic director in 1978. The company’s repertory, which balances classic works with commissions from contemporary choreographers, is of an unparalleled breadth, creating unique experiences for audiences around the world.

Mark "Doctor Bugs" Moffettt—March 30, 2011, 10:40 am

From the top of the world's tallest tree to deep in unexplored caves, Mark Moffett has discovered new species and behavior while risking life and limb to find stories that make people fall in love with the unexpected in nature. Mark is a real-life adventurer with awards for writing and photography, including the 2006 Lowell Thomas Medal and the sixth Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award (2008). Mark remains active in science, with over 80 peer-reviewed publications. He has penned more than 20 articles for National Geographic magazine, which has featured nearly 500 of his images. More here.