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January 31, 2001
Lecture Series Welcomes Nigerian Poet Onookome OkomeContact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Southampton, NY - Nigerian poet and author Onookome Okome will read from a collection of poems that draw on the myth of Mammiwata, a mermaid figure whose cult is widespread across West and Central Africa, as part of the Honors Program Lecture Series offered at Southampton College of Long Island University.
The series also includes Robert Glass, Director of the Comparative Religion and Culture Program of Southampton College's Friends World Program discussing Buddhism as presented in Shunryu Suzuki's book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
All events in the lecture series are free and open to the public and include:
Wednesday, February 14th at 6 p.m. Business Center Lecture Hall. "Environmental Issues and Solutions on the East End of Long Island." A panel discussion featuring representatives from the Suffolk County Department of Health, the Town of Southampton and the Town of East Hampton Planning Departments, the Group for the South Fork, the South Fork Groundwater Task Force, and the Peconic Land Trust.
Thursday, March 8th at 6:30 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. Paul Forestell, "Sex Underwater: Inter-species Reproductive Behaviors in Dolphins in Costa Rica." Forestell teaches psychology in the Social Science Division of Southampton College and is Chair of the Honors Committee.
Monday, March 12th at 9 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. Robert Glass, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind." Glass will speak on Buddhism and Buddhist practice as presented in Shunryu Suzuki's book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, through which many Westerners have been introduced to Zen Buddhism. Glass is Director of the Comparative Religion and Culture Program of Southampton's Friends World Program.
Monday, March 26th at 9 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. Onookome Okome, "The Mammiwata Poems." Okome is a Nigerian poet and author of several books on film and popular culture. He is currently a Humbolt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.
Wednesday, March 28th at 6 p.m. Business Center Lecture Hall. "Brookhaven National Laboratory - Friend or Foe to the Environment?" A panel discussion featuring representatives from Brookhaven National Laboratory, S.T.A.R. Foundation, and the Group for the South Fork.
Wednesday, April 18th at 8:30 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. A staged reading of Barbara Novack's The Ape and the Whale, performed by Brian O'Doherty and William Peterson as Herman Melville and Charles Darwin. Barbara Novak is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Barnard College of Columbia University. This event is cosponsored with the Writers Talk Series of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Southampton College.
Tuesday, April 3rd at 9 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. Kathryn Szoka, "Vanishing Landscapes." A slide presentation of landscape photographs documenting the changing rural character of eastern Long Island. Szoka has been photographing farms and old barns on the East End for seventeen years.
Monday, April 30th from 4-6 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. Honors Symposium. Graduating seniors will present their honors theses. There will be a reception in Kanas Lobby following the program.
Wednesday, May 2nd at 8:30 p.m. Duke Lecture Hall. A Reading by Kit Hathaway. Hathaway is the author of many volumes of poetry and a professor in the Humanities Division of Southampton College. This event is co-sponsored with the Writers Talk Series of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Southampton College.