News & Events 2006

Francis Bok (Photo by Charlie Quigg '09)

On Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, Francis Bok, an escaped slave from the Sudan, spoke on "21st Century: Living Proof," a lecture detailing his personal story of being enslaved, escaping from slavery and creating a new life. At the age of seven, Bok was captured and enslaved during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nymlal. For 10 years, he lived as the family slave to Giema Abdullah, forced to sleep with cattle, endure daily beatings and eat rotten food. In 1999, the United Nations resettled him in North Dakota. He since has spoken at a Capitol Hill ceremony and in hearings of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In 2002, he was invited to the White House for the Sudan Peace Act signing ceremony.

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Hugh Price '63 (Photo by Charlie Quigg '09)

On Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, Hugh Price '63, a consultant to the Brookings Institute and former president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization and the oldest and largest community-based movement empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream, spoke on service in Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall. 

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Joseph E. Stiglitz '64 speaks in the Cole Assembly Room on Thursday, March 2, 2006.

On Thursday, March 2, 2006, Joseph E. Stiglitz '64, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, spoke in the Cole Assembly Room on “The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict.” A recent study by Stiglitz, a professor of economics at Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, a budget expert from Harvard, concluded that the cost of the current Iraq war could be $2 trillion. Stiglitz and Bilmes have included costs that official estimates do not, such as long-term medical expenses for injured military personnel. 

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Todd Gitlin speaks in the Pruyne Lecture Hall on Monday, March 6, 2006.

On Monday, March 6, Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and one of the nation’s leading thinkers about the media, spoke on “Whose Flag Is It? Liberal Patriotism in a Conservative Age” at 7:30 p.m. in the Pruyne Lecture Hall.

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Alan Soble speaks in Pruyne Lecture Hall on Friday, March 31, 2006.

Alan Soble, University Research Professor and professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, gave a talk titled “We All Know What Sex Is” at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 31, in the Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115).

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Francis Deng speaks in Pruyne Lecture Hall on Monday, April 10, 2006.

Francis Deng, the director of the Center for Displacement Studies and a research professor of international law, politics and society at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, spoke on “New Sudan in the Making” at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 10, in Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115).

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Kenneth Bacon '66 speaks in Johnson Chapel on Monday, August 28, 2006.

Kenneth Bacon, Amherst College Class of ’66 and president of Refugees International, spoke to the incoming Class of 2010 at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 28, in Johnson Chapel at Amherst College. Bacon addressed issues of genocide in Darfur. The first annual Benjamin DeMott Lecture at Amherst College, his talk was directed toward first-year students at Amherst, and related to their summer reading.

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Jonathan Kozol speaks in Johnson Chapel on Monday, Feb. 20, 2006.

On Monday, Feb. 20, 2006, public school teacher, award-winning writer and educational activist Jonathan Kozol addressed a standing-room only crowd in Johnson Chapel on "The Shame of our Nation: Schools Still Separate and Unequal in America."

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Nicholas Kristof Speaks in Johnson Chapel on Tuesday, October 3, 2006.

Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, spoke in Johnson Chapel on Tuesday, October 3, 2006, on "First Genocide of the 21st Century: The Crisis Facing Women in Darfur." In his talk, Kristof describes the status of women in the Sudan and the violence they face.

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Wendy Kopp speaks in Cole Assembly Room on Monday, Dec. 4, 2006.

Wendy Kopp, founder and president of the national teacher corps Teach for America, gave a talk titled “One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way” in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4.

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Robert Brustein '47 speaks in Holden Theater on Friday, March 31, 2006.

On Friday, March 31, 2006, drama critic, essayist and director Robert Brustein '47 spoke on “Territorial Art: The Politics of Adaptation” at 4 p.m. in Holden Theater.

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Dr. Paula Rauch '77, trustee of the college and director of child psychiatry consultation services at Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke on "Life as a Child Psychiatrist: Helping Children Cope with Serious Illness in the Family" on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Assembly Room.

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On Saturday, Oct. 14, at 11 a.m. in Johnson Chapel, a memorial service was held for James Ostendarp. Speakers included Rev. Thomas Massaro, S.J ’83; President Anthony W. Marx; Lee Levison ’77, headmaster, The Collegiate School; Board of Trustees Chair Jide Zeitlin ’85, The Keffi Group, Ltd.; Amherst College men’s basketball coach David Hixon ’75; and writer Dave Morine ’66.

Classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson gave a talk titled “The Western Way of War” at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13, in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College. The third lecture in the series sponsored by the Colloquium on the American Founding at Amherst, Hanson’s talk was free and open to the public.

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Debby Applegate, a 1989 graduate of Amherst and the author of the The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, spoke on “Henry Ward Beecher and Victorian America” at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 25, in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall.

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