The chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William R. Ferris, will be among the speakers in a series of USM forums to highlight the role of stories in strengthening our lives and communities, and to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Center for the Study of Lives in the College of Education and Human Development.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Each session will be followed by a Friday morning discussion with guests from multicultural communities. The opening lecture on October 1, made possible by a Libra Visiting Professorship, will feature Derald Wing Sue, an Asian-American psychologist from California State University, Hayward and the California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda. The Center for the Study of Lives was established in 1988 to strengthen community bonds by bringing people of all generations together to share life stories. For more information, call Robert Atkinson, director of the Center for the Study of Lives, at 780-5078.