HomeMy WebLinkAboutCLS - 2012-2013ary Lecture Series
Free to All Lexington Residents
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The Committee: Robert Russman Halperin, Susan Emanuel, Rita Goldberg, Van Seasholes
Jill Lepore, our special lecturer in honor of Lexington's 300th anniversary, will speak
on Benjamin Franklin's sister, who shares a birth year with our town and was a lively
correspondent during the Revolution, Jill Lepore is a professor of American History
at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the prize - winning
author of many enthralling books on American history from colonial times to the pres-
ent, including The Allansion of Happiness (2012), on the board game of Life and Life
in America.
Cary Hall • SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 - 8 :OOPM
The United States today exhibits growing class disparities, How is our country being
reshaped by these changes, and what are the implications for us and our children? Join �¢
us as Harvard professor and former Lexingtonian Robert Putnam explores the future of
American society in all of its diversity and complexity. Prof. Putnam is the bestselling
author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Making Cn
Democracy Work, and American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.
Cary Hall • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2012- 8:OOPM
How do you transfer meaning from one language to another? David Bellos, professor of
French and Comparative Literature at Princeton (and director of the Program in
Translation and Intercultural Communication) will speak on the history and art of trans-
lation, from Babel to Google. Bellos has translated many works by Georges Perec and
other French novelists and is the author of a witty survey of translation and interpreting
practices and myths (e.g. the "Eskimo Vocabulary Hoar'): his best - selling book-Is That
a Fish in Your Ear? was one of the New York Times's "100 Notable Books of 2011" and a
finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award.
Cary Hall • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012- 8 :OOPM
Lexington author and documentary filmmaker Rick Beyer will share insights, anec-
dotes, and behind - the - scenes adventures from a career in history and storytelling that
has taken him from Buckman Tavern to Tunguska, Siberia. His presentation will be
illustrated with numerous clips and outtakes from his work. Rick has made films for
The History Channel, National Geographic, the Lexington Historical Society, and oth-
ers, He is also the author of the popular Greatest Stories Never Told history series pub-
lished by Harper Collins, and has shared his unique take on history in interviews on
CNN, The Discovery Channel, NPR and Fox News.
Cary Hall • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012- 8:OOPM
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