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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm in the David L. Tandy Lecture Hall
Dr. Jeff Ferrell
Empire Of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving
Jeff Ferrell earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. Dr. Ferrell has written many books on criminology. In 2009 he won the Distinguished Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s division of International Criminology. Dr. Ferrell has also won numerous teaching awards.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm in the David L. Tandy Lecture Hall
Dr. Terrence Doody
Nobel Prizes: Who Got Them and Who Did Not...
Terrence Doody received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1970 and joined the faculty of Rice University, where he is now a professor in the Department of English and teaches courses in modernism, the novel, and contemporary literature. He is the eight-time winner of the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. Since 1973, he has taught many years in Rice’s program of Continuing Studies and at the Women’s Institute of Houston.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm in the The Gallery/Living Room of the City
Norman Richmond
A Musical Journey... The Evolution of Musical Style
Norman Richmond, well-known Fort Worth pianist, band leader, and studio instructor earned his M.M. from Texas Christian University and Artist Diploma from the St. Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome, Italy. Richmond will perform a solo piano recital and will give program notes that describe his selections from the viewpoint of the evolution of musical style. The program will be primarily classical, with music by Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy. Richmond will then explore the relationship of the classics to 20th Century American popular music, concluding with Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue."
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm in the David L. Tandy Lecture Hall
Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown is the author of fifty-eight New York Times bestsellers, all of which jumped onto the Times bestseller list in the number one to five spot. A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Her most recent novel Rainwater takes Brown into the realm of historical fiction with a powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression, and about love in all its forms.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm in the David L. Tandy Lecture Hall
Bob Ray Sanders
Calvin Littlejohn’s Portrait of the African-American Community
Bob Ray Sanders is a thirty-year veteran of the journalism world. He has worked in television, radio and newspapers. He is currently vice president and associate editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He also worked for many years at KERA, the PBS affiliate, where he served as reporter, producer, station manager and vice president. Sanders has received some of journalism's most prestigious awards. His most recent work chronicles the photography of Calvin Littlejohn in both segregated and post-civil rights movement Fort Worth, captured over a period of six decades.
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