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NPR correspondent and author of "Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent (2006)", John Burnett will speak from first-hand experience on the Mexican Mafias, their overlapping growth and influence on the United States illegal drug market.

Rachel Herz is a world leading expert in the sense of smell and is a professor at Brown University in the cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences.

Yochi Dreazen is a senior writer for Foreign Policy and contributing editor at The Atlantic. Dreazen has reported from more than 20 countries, including Iraq, where he served as The Wall Street Journal's main Iraq correspondent. Dreazen's current project with the Pulitzer Center focuses on Mali as…

Nasr is a world-renown scholar on Islam and has published more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on Islamic esotericism, Islamic mysticism and metaphysics.

The Hansford M. Epes Distinguished Lecture Series is delighted to welcome University of Chicago Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of Law, Philosophy & Human Values Brian Leiter. Leiter will present "The Truth is Terrible: Nietzsche's Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for E…

Stephen Lewis, co-founder of the nonprofit organization AIDS-Free World, former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDs in Africa, and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, will discuss "The Millennium Development Goals and Public Health Challenges."

Davidson College presents Al Young in a poetry reading as part of theLiterary Calendar series.

Prize-winning author and self-described cyborg Jillian Weise will read from her collections. Weise has two poetry collections, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex and The Book of Goodbyes (winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award) and a novel titled The Colony. Her work has appeared in Beauty Is a Verb: …

Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the annual Cornelson Distinguished Lecture in Economics. Acemoglu won the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005 as best economist under age 40, and has been named one of Foreign Policy…