1997-1998 Classes

American Democracy at Century's End
September 30-October 4, 1997 at the University of Oklahoma
Visiting Scholar: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of
Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago

Preparing for a Successful Career - What will it take?
October 15-19, 1997 at Southern Nazarene University
Visiting Scholar: Laura Pedersen, financial columnist and consultant

Whose Freedom is it? The First Amendment in Peril
October 29-November 2, 1997 at Oklahoma State University
Visiting Scholar: John Frohnmayer lawyer and former chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts and outspoken advocate for the First Amendment

Are We Still Evolving?
January 21-25, 1998 at East Central University
Visiting Scholar: Christopher J. Wills Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego

Shaped by Place: On Writers and Writing
February 11-15, 1998 at the University of Oklahoma
Visiting Scholar: Rilla Askew Author

Americans and the Natural World
February 18-22, 1998 at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Visiting Scholar: Donald Worster Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, The University of Kansas

Life Writing
March 4-8, 1998 at the Rogers University
Visiting Scholar: Diane Wood Middlebrook writer, professor of English, Stanford University

Cain, Hammett & Chandler - Detectives in Fiction and Film
March 25-29, 1998 at the University of Oklahoma
Visiting Scholar: Alan Trachtenberg Neil Gray, Jr. Professor of English and
American Studies, Yale University