The Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne’s (IPFW) Omnibus Lecture Series, featuring nationally recognized speakers, celebrates its fifteenth season of offering free lectures to the public. Their schedule for this coming academic year has just been made public, and among the featured speakers is Antiguan-born writer Jamaica Kincaid. Other speakers include Marlee Matlin and Henry Winkler, James Galbraith, Andrew Sullivan, Neil LaBute, Christopher Buckley,
Kincaid is scheduled to speak on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010,at 7:30 p.m., and her title is “Reading and Growing Up Under Colonial Rule.”
Jamaica Kincaid skillfully tempers the boundary between poetry and prose. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, she left her native country of Antigua at age 16, bound for New York. Following years of college coursework and freelance writing projects, she secured a position at a teenage girl’s magazine. But it was her work in The Village Voice that led to greater promise with The New Yorker and her first book, At the Bottom of the River. (1983). Kincaid’s other award-winning novels include Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (2005).
Each lecture will be held on the IPFW campus in The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center’s 1,600-seat Auer Performance Hall. All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is no charge for the events and free parking is accessible in nearby lots. The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center is located on the north end of campus in the arts plaza next to the Ernest E. Williams Theatre and the Visual Arts Building.
For the complete schedule go to http://www.fwdailynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4618:2009-10-Omnibus-Lecture-Series-announced&catid=61:times-online2&Itemid=6
