Featured Speakers
Rafia Zakaria is a Belmont alum, a columnist for DAWN (Pakistan’s largest English newspaper), the Director for Amnesty International USA and the author of the forthcoming book Silence in Karachi.
Dr. Rebecca Dixon Department of English, Tennessee State University
Dr. Kirsten Nigro Chair, Department of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.
Nancy Mairs is a poet and an essayist, she was awarded the 1984 Western States Book Award in poetry for In All the Rooms of the Yellow House (Confluence Press, 1984) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1991. The Arizona Humanities Council gave her their 2008 Literary Treasure Award. Her first work of nonfiction, a collection of essays entitled Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman’s Life, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 1986. Since then, she has written a memoir, Remembering the Bone House, a spiritual autobiography, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal, and three more books of essays, Carnal Acts, Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer, Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. These are available from Beacon Press, as are her most recent books, A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories, which was supported by a fellowship from the Project on Death in America of the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute, and A Dynamic God.
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| 2011 | ||
| Tuesday, September 13th | ||
| 1:00 PM |
Community Advocacy Through Service-Learning: Literacy, Social Justice, and Citizenship Charmion Gustke, Belmont University Beaman A&B 1:00 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
Linda Quigley, Belmont University Beaman A&B 3:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Film Viewing and Discussion: What I Want My Words to Do to You David Curtis, Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 7:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, September 14th | ||
| 11:00 AM |
Monteverde Plenary Address: Finding Oursevles in the Voices of Others Andrea Stover, Belmont University Beaman A&B 11:00 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Digging Around for Any Excuse: Dialogue Through Desperation Tasha French, The Contributor Beaman A&B 12:00 PM |
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| Thursday, September 15th | ||
| 12:00 AM |
Mark Anderson, Belmont University Massey Board Room 12:00 AM |
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| 10:00 AM |
Liberating Voices in Arabic Drama James Al-Shamma, Belmont University Troutt Theater 10:00 AM |
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| 12:30 PM |
The Dark Side of Liberation: When Historical Movements for Change Go Wrong Daniel Schafer, Belmont University Massey Board Room 12:30 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Andi Stepnick, Belmont University Massey Board Room 2:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Culture Wars-A Battle for Freedom of Expression in Contemporary Art Judy Bullington, Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 4:00 PM |
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| Friday, September 16th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Silence in Karachi: Stories from an Embattled City Rafia Zakaria, Belmont University Massey Board Room 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Andy Davis, Belmont University Massey Board Room 11:00 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Liberating Voices: Negotiating the Challenges of Representing the "Other" Cynthia Cox, Belmont University Massey Board Room 12:00 PM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Liberating Voices from East-Germany and China - A Personal Note Holly Liu, Alma College Massey Board Room 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Reflections on Liberating Voices: Two Communities at Work Holli Anglin, Thistle Farms Massey Board Room 2:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Chappelle + Angelou: A Viewing and Discussion of Their Conversation on ICONOCLASTS Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 4:00 PM |
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| Sunday, September 18th | ||
| 2:00 PM |
Writing to Liberate Your Voice - Writing to Hear Your Soul, Humanities Symposium Writing Workshop Robbie Pinter, Belmont University Beaman A&B 2:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Reading and Celebration of Winning Entries, 2011 Humanities Symposium Writing Competition Sandra Hutchins, Belmont University Vince Gill Room 4:00 PM |
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| Monday, September 19th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Rebecca Dixon, Tennessee State University Beaman A&B 10:00 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Staging US/Mexico Border Realities: The Case of and for the Mexican Migrant Kirsten Nigro, University of Texas at El Paso Beaman A&B 12:00 PM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Liberating Voices: Student Perceptions Megan Gibson, Belmont University Beaman A&B 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Liberating Voices through Study Abroad Natalia Pelaz, Belmont University Beaman A&B 2:00 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Belmont University Vince Gill Room 6:00 PM |
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| 7:30 PM |
Maya Angelou Curb Event Center 7:30 PM |
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| Tuesday, September 20th | ||
| 11:00 AM |
Humanities Symposium Speaker Panel Maya Angelou Curb Event Center 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Liberating Music: Symphony, Quartet, and Song of Dmitri Shostakovich Terry Klefstad, Belmont University Beaman A&B 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Liberating Voices at the Harris-Hillman School Robbie Hampton, Harris-Hillman School Beaman A&B 2:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Death Watches: A Meditation on Keeping Company with Men Who Are Waiting to Die Nancy Mairs Massey Board Room 4:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, September 21st | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Humanities Symposium Wrap-up Panel David Curtis, Belmont University Beaman A&B 10:00 AM |
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