2008-09 Open VISIONS Forum Schedule

The Presidents

Douglas Brinkley
Mon., Sept. 15, 2008
8 p.m.
Historian, best-selling author. professor of history, Rice University. Fellow, James Baker III Institute of Public Policy.
Community partnership with Fairfield Museum and History Center.
Collegial partnership with the Department of History

The Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin
Wed., Sept. 24, 2008
8 p.m.
Legal analyst for CNN Worldwide, staff writer for The New Yorker, best-selling author.

Global Conscience

Mia Farrow
Mon., Oct. 6, 2008
8 p.m.
Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lectureship
#24 in the 2008 Time Magazine top 100 World's Most Influential People for her humanitarian work in Darfur.

The Great Debate
Election Special from the Left and Right

Mika Brzezinski & Monica Crowley
Mon., Oct. 27, 2008
8 p.m.
Liberal MSNBC news anchor, "Morning Joe" co-host / Conservative political / international affairs analyst.
Collegial partnership with the Department of Politics

The First Year Experience, a division of Student Affairs, presents The Second Annual Student's Forum

Fareed Zakaria
Thur., Oct. 30, 2008
7 p.m.
Editor, Newsweek International, host of CNN's new, "Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria," and author of The Post-American World.
This lecture is not included in the OVF subscription. A limited number of tickets will become available at the end of September, 2008 for this event.

Stage & Screen

Olympia Dukakis
Sun., Jan. 25, 2009
3 p.m.
Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actress.
Community partnership with Westport Country Playhouse

Lincoln Bicentennial

Harold Holzer
Mon., Feb. 9, 2009
8 p.m.
Lincoln biographer, Sr. Vice President, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Community partnership with Pequot Library
Collegial partnership with the American Studies Graduate Program

Diversity

Cory Booker
Wed., Feb.18, 2009
8 p.m.
Mayor, Newark, New Jersey
Bridging the Divide: The Strengths and Challenges of Diversity in America
Collegial partnership with FUSA, the Program in Black Studies and the Office of Student Diversity

The Museum

Earl A. Powell, III
Mon., March 23, 2009
8 p.m.
Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Collegial partnership with Art History, Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Social Justice

Kerry Kennedy
Mon., April 20, 2009
8 p.m.
Ignatian Lecture
Founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights
Author of Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning.