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Start: 7:00 pm
2010 David P. Gardner Lecture
"Gulliver's Troubles: Obama and America in the Middle East"
with Aaron David Miller
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Aaron David Miller is a Middle East
analyst, author, and negotiator. Miller published his fourth book, The Much Too Promised Land:
America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace in 2008.
The David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is administered by the Tanner Humanities Center in collaboration with the College of Humanities, the College of Fine Arts, and the Graduate School. The Gardner Lecture was founded in the University of Utah Graduate School in honor of former President David Pierpont Gardner. The Gardner Lecture features distinguished scholars and artists from the humanities and the fine arts in alternating years.
The lectures are free and open to the public. The lectureship is funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
Start: 7:00 pm
Patrick Madden will read from his recently published collection of essays, Quotidiana. In Quotidiana, Madden illuminates common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.
Patrick Madden is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young
University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit his web site www.quotidiana.org.
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