Brown University President Vartan Gregorian has announced the schedule of speakers for the 1995-96 President's Lecture Series. Gregorian initiated the President's Lectures in 1992 in order to bring eminent American and international historians, political leaders, writers and artists to Rhode Island. Past lecturers have included Maya Angelou, Eli Wiesel, Claire Bloom, Carlos Fuentes, Norman Mailer, Lord Anthony Quinton, Susan Sontag, Calvin Trillin and John Wideman. All lecturers in the series participate at Gregorian's personal invitation. They will begin their presentations at 8 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on the College Green.
All lectures are open to the public without charge.
Visiting lecturers are often available for interviews in advance of their presentations. Please contact the News Bureau one week prior to the event. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. His latest collection of poetry, Can You Hear, Bird, has been published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Guare's most successful work prior to that was The House of Blue Leaves, which won both an Obie and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970-71.