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LINCOLN, Mass., September 2, 2008 – The
Bemis Free Lecture Fall 2008 series will feature four special events
(three lectures and one concert).
Terry Breverton is the author of
fourteen books, including "Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate
of Them All", "The Pirate Dictionary," "The Pirate Handbook,"
"Admiral Sir Henry Morgan," and numerous articles about both Pirates
and Welsh History. Mr. Breverton is a recipient of the Helm
Fellowship at the University of
Indiana. He lives in Wales and is a
senior lecturer at UWIC Business School in Cardiff. Mr. Nunoya has presented solo recitals at The Boston Conservatory, A Palazzo Magnani (Italy), Conservatoire Superieur de Paris (France), and in Yamagata, Akita (Japan). He recently released his first CD, “Red Dragonfly.” The CD includes major marimba repertoire as well as Asian folk tunes. An active chamber musician, Mr. Nunoya has collaborated with woodwinds, strings, singers and percussionists. He has performed marimba chamber music at The Boston Conservatory and Goethe Institute in Boston, and in Japan at Okayama Symphony Hall, Izumity Hall in Miyagi, Bunsho-kan in Yamagata, and Harmony Hall in Fukui. Born in 1979 in Akita, Japan, he graduated from Yamagata University with a music education degree in 2001 and received a masters degree in marimba performance at The Boston Conservatory (TBC). He is the first marimba (or percussion) major in the school’s history to receive this distinction.
About Jeff Jacoby A native of Cleveland, Jeff Jacoby graduated with honors from George Washington University in 1979, and from Boston University Law School in 1983. He briefly practiced law at the nationally renowned firm of Baker & Hostetler, returning to Boston in 1984 to work on a political campaign. In 1985-87, he was an assistant to Dr. John Silber, the president of Boston University. For several years, Jacoby was a political commentator for WBUR, Boston's National Public Radio affiliate. He also hosted ''Talk of New England,'' a weekly television program. He is a frequent guest on radio talk shows across North America. He serves on the board of the New England chapter of the American Jewish Committee, and is a director of the Ford Hall Forum, the nation’s oldest free public-lecture series. In 1999, Jacoby became the first recipient of the Breindel Prize, a $10,000 prize for excellence in opinion journalism. In 2004, he received the Thomas Paine Award of the Institute for Justice, an award presented to journalists ''who dedicate their work to the preservation and championing of individual liberty.''
About Guy Raz During his six years abroad, Raz reported from more than 40 countries with a focus on Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. His reporting has been part of two Alfred duPont Awards and one Peabody awarded to NPR. He's been a finalist for the Livingston Award four times. For his reporting from Germany, Raz was awarded both the RIAS Berlin prize and the Arthur F. Burns Award. He has profiled and interviewed dozens of world leaders, including Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres, General David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen. As CNN's Jerusalem correspondent, Raz chronicled everything from the rise of Hamas as a political power to the incapacitation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Israel's withdrawl from the Gaza Strip in 2005. In May 2004, he spent six weeks with U.S. forces in Najaf during a period of heavy fighting with Shiite insurgents. In 2006, Raz produced a a five-part series called "The Language of our Times" which ran on All Things Considered. The stories attempted to turn words and terms like "Jihad" and "War on Terror" into "audio characters."
Raz's written work has appeared in
Salon, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, The Christian
Science Monitor and the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. # # #
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