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<P>Greetings,</P>
<P>I came across some information that the populace in Northkeep might be
interested in. It is about a Renaissance scholar coming to lecture in Tulsa.
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<P>Please remember, I am only the messenger, and I have given you all the info I
know. If you would like more information, call the phone number at the bottom of
the informaiton. </P>
<P>Lynn the Inquisitive</P>
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<P>International Renaissance Scholar to Lecture in Tulsa</P>
<P>Touted by The New York Times as "the most prominent Renaissance scholar of
his generation,," Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt will present the Oklahoma
Humanities Council’s annual Oklahoma Lecture in the Humanities, "Shakespeare,
Racial Memory, and Cultural History" Friday, February 25, 7 p.m., at the Kendall
Theatre on the University of Tulsa campus.</P>
<P>Recognized as partly responsible for new theoretical explorations known as
New Historian, Greenblatt has won many honors and awards, and he has lectured
widely in the United States, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, South America,
Asia, and Australia. Since 1997, Greenblatt has served as the Harry Levin
Professor of Literature at Harvard University. Previously he taught English at
the University of California in Berkley for 27 years, and he has also been a
visiting professor in European universities in Paris, Turin, Florence, Triest,
and Bologna, as well as Peking, China.</P>
<P>Many of Greenblatt’s award winning books, including Marvelous Possessions:
The Wonder of the New World (1991); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern
Culture (1990); and Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy
in Renaissance England (1988), have been translated into several languages.
Volumes edited by Greenblatt include The Norton Shakespeare (1997) and New World
Encounters (1992). Greenblatt is also founding editor and co-chair of the
scholarly journal, Representations.</P>
<P>Reserved general admission tickets are available for $5 from the Oklahoma
Humanities Council and the University of Tulsa Honors Program. Underwriter
tickets for preferred seating and an autographed copy of Greenblatt’s book,
Shakespearean Negotiations, are also available form OHC for $35. The program is
sponsored by the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the University of Tulsa, and the
Bank of Oklahoma.</P>
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<P>For more information, contact Kitty Ledbetter (405)
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