The University of Mary Washington’s Great Lives Series: Biographical Approaches to History and Culture opens its 22nd season on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
Lectures, which focus on biographical works, begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Dodd Auditorium in George Washington Hall.
This season will include 15 events and conclude on March 20:
- Jan. 21: Women of the CIA with speaker Liz Mundy
- Jan. 23: Pete Rose with speaker Keith O’Brien
- Jan. 28: Rod Serling with speaker Anne Serling
- Jan. 30: Barbara Walters with speaker Susan Page
- Feb. 4: John Glenn and Ted Williams with speaker Adam Lazarus
- Feb. 6: Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull with speaker Mark Lee Gardner
- Feb. 13: John Lewis with speaker Raymond Arsenault
- Feb. 18: Captain James Hook with speaker Hampton Sides
- Feb. 20: James A. Garfield with speaker C.W. Goodyear
- Feb. 25: Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton, Beethoven, and Einstein with speaker Bulent Atalay
- Feb. 27: Phillis Wheatley: America’s First Black Poet with speaker David Waldstreicher
- Mar. 11: James Longstreet with speaker Elizabeth Varon
- Mar. 13: Pat Nixon with speaker Heath Hardage Lee
- Mar. 18: Hedy Lamarr with speaker Stephen Michael Shearer
- Mar. 20: Jay Gatsby with speaker Bob Batchelor
Each session typically includes a question and answer period and book signing by the author. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The UMW Bookstore will be selling the featured book in the auditorium foyer.
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