Rainier’s talk is titled “Cultures on the Edge: The Race Against Time to Help Empower Traditional Cultures.”

The presentation, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., is part of the museum’s fiftieth anniversary lecture series. It is free and open to the public.

Rainier’s life mission is to capture on film the remaining natural wilderness and indigenous cultures around the globe and to use images to create social change.

He will talk about his own photography, as well as his work helping indigenous communities document, revitalize, and maintain their quickly disappearing ancient cultures with the help of computers, cameras, and video.

Traveling the planet for more than thirty years, Rainier has documented communities struggling to save their ancient ways of living. He is a National Geographic Society Fellow and directs the All Roads Photography Program. He also co-directs the Enduring Voices Project under the auspices of the National Geographic Missions Program. His photography has been featured in Time, Life, Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, Outside, and publications of the National Geographic Society.

The McClung’s fiftieth anniversary lecture series brings in worldwide experts to speak on topics related to the museum’s collections and exhibitions.

Upcoming lectures feature:

•  Salima Ikram, Egyptologist and mummy expert, October 15
•  Marc Spencer, vertebrate paleontologist and dinosaur specialist, October 27

The museum is located at 1327 Circle Park Drive on the UT campus. It is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Free two-hour museum parking passes are available from the parking information building at the entrance to Circle Park Drive on the weekdays. Parking passes are not needed on the weekends.

The museum’s exhibits include archaeology, ancient Egypt, decorative arts, the Battle of Fort Sanders, geology, and fossils. Admission is free.

For more information about the McClung Museum and its collections and exhibits, visit the website.

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CONTACTS:

Catherine Shteynberg (865-974-6921, cshteynb@utk.edu)

Christina Selk (865-974-2143, cselk@utk.edu)

William A. Thomas, Hudnall Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of Kentucky and visiting scientist at the Geological Survey of Alabama, will present “Eastern North American through Two Supercontinent Cycles.” The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the McClung Museum. The event is free and open to the public.

Thomas will go through 750 million years of geologic processes that resulted in the landscape of today, such as the breakup of supercontinents, the creation of mountains, the erosion and deposition of sediment-producing limestone and shale, and the shaping of the ridges, valleys, and mountains.

McClung Museum’s fiftieth anniversary lecture series brings worldwide experts to speak on topics related to the museum’s collections and exhibitions, which include archaeology, ancient Egypt, decorative arts, the Battle of Fort Sanders, geology, and fossils.

Upcoming lectures feature:

• Chris Rainier, National Geographic photographer, on September 22
• Salima Ikram, Egyptologist and mummy expert, October15
• Marc Spencer, vertebrate paleontologist and dinosaur specialist, on October 27.

The McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive, is open Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and admission is free. Free two-hour museum parking passes are available from the parking information building at the entrance to Circle Park Drive. Parking passes are not needed on the weekends.

For more information about the McClung Museum and its collections and exhibits, visit the website.

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CONTACTS:

Catherine Shteynberg (865-974-6921, cshteynb@utk.edu)

Christina Selk (865-974-2143, cselk@utk.edu)

Nussbaum, the Ernest Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will present “The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear.” Her talk will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the University Center ballroom, Room 329. Following her presentation there will be a brief reception.

Nussbaum is an American philosopher and political theorist with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights. She holds appointments in the University of Chicago’s philosophy department and law school as well as associate appointments in classics, divinity, and political science.

Nussbaum previously taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. She has received honorary degrees from more than forty colleges and universities in the US, Canada, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

“There is hardly anyone today who would not rank Martha Nussbaum as one of America’s leading intellectuals. She is a model for all of us on what it means to participate in society in a measured and intelligent way,” said Tom Heffernan, Kenneth Curry Professor in the Humanities and director of the UT Humanities Center. “Her work on feminism and the situation of women in nonwestern countries is some of the most trenchant and influential commentary being written today.”

Heffernan said Nussbaum is invited to speak all over the world, so arranging her visit is a coup for UT.

“Her acceptance of our invitation—given the complexity of her schedule and the dozens of requests she receives—will extend the visibility of UT and the UT Humanities Center,” he said.

Nussbaum has served as a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki and as a part of the United Nations University. She has published nineteen books and almost 400 essays. She is currently working on her twentieth book, to be titled Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice.

Here’s a look at the rest of the series:

• Monday, September 30—Edward Hirsch, poet, author, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He will talk about applying for a Guggenheim Fellowship and also give a poetry reading. A MacArthur Fellow, Hirsch has published eight books of poems. His most recent, The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, compiles thirty-five years of work. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature.

Lecture, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., John D. Tickle Engineering Building, Room 403; poetry reading, 7:00 p.m., Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium.

• Tuesday, October 15—Amy Murrell Taylor, associate professor of history, University of Kentucky. Her talk is entitled “On the Frontlines of Freedom: Life Inside the US Civil War’s ‘Contraband’ Camps.” An historian of the US South with a special interest in the Civil War era, gender, and family, Taylor is the author of The Divided Family in Civil War America and co-editor of Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her essays have appeared in popular publications including The Civil War Monitor magazine and The Civil War: Official Park Service Handbook.

4:00 p.m., University Center Shiloh Room (Room 235).

• Monday, March 10—Patricia Buckley Ebrey, professor of history, University of Washington. Her talk is entitled “Emperor Huizong: Daoist, Poet, Painter, Captive.” She will offer a fresh look at the Chinese emperor who came to the Song Throne in the first month of 1100, a few months after his seventeenth birthday, and reigned almost twenty-six years. Rather than dwell on the turmoil caused by his reign, she will look at the ruler as a skilled poet, painter, calligrapher, musician, and art collector.

Time and location to be announced.

• Thursday, April 24—Carole Pateman, distinguished professor emeritus of political science, University of California, Los Angeles.

Details of her talk, as well as its time and location, to be announced.

For more information about the Humanities Lecture series, visit the Humanities Center website.

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C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, ablakely@utk.edu)

The event will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the center’s Toyota Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. For information about $2 parking at Volunteer Hall, visit the Baker Center’s website.

“Senator Lugar and Senator Baker have a long history of working together on matters of national importance, including global security and nuclear nonproliferation,” said Matt Murray, director of the Baker Center. “We’re looking forward to hearing Senator Lugar talk about his days in the Senate and the current work he’s doing to keep these important issues at the forefront of public thought.”

Lugar, a Republican, was Indiana’s longest-serving congressman. He was elected in 1977 and served until this year. He was unseated in the primary by Republican Richard Mourdock, Indiana’s state treasurer. Mourdock lost to Democrat Joe Donnelly in the general election.

Prior to the Senate, Lugar served as mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1975.

While in the Senate, Lugar served as chair of the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1987 and from 2003 to 2007. He also was appointed to the Select Committee on Intelligence by Senator Howard Baker in 1977. Much of Lugar’s work in the Senate focused on global security. Specifically, one of his most notable pieces of legislation, the Nunn-Lugar Act, led to the dismantling of thousands of nuclear warheads, and improved security at hundreds of weapons sites across the former Soviet Union states. To date, the Nunn-Lugar program has deactivated more than 7,600 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States.

Lugar now serves as president of the Lugar Center, a nonprofit organization focusing on nuclear nonproliferation, food security, foreign aid effectiveness, and other critical issues. He recently announced the creation of the Lugar Academy at the University of Indianapolis, including a Washington semester internship program for university students. Lugar also recently was named a professor of practice and distinguished scholar at the new School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University and a visiting distinguished professor at Georgetown University’s Global Public Policy Institute.

Lugar graduated first in his class at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He attended Pembroke College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying politics, philosophy, and economics. Lugar volunteered for the US Navy in 1957, ultimately serving as an intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations.

Lugar manages his family’s 604-acre corn, soybean, and tree farm. Before entering public life, he helped manage the family’s food machinery manufacturing business in Indianapolis with his brother Tom.

The Ashe Lecture series, funded by former ambassador and Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, hosts former mayors, ambassadors, and other public servants to discuss important issues.

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MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Senator Lugar will be available for press from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m., immediately following his talk. Let us know if you plan to attend.

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C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, ablakey@utk.edu)

Former Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana will deliver the Ashe Lecture on August 27, and journalist and author Tom Brokaw will give the Baker Distinguished Lecture on November 13.

The center will highlight its first decade of work with an exhibit and reception in the Baker Center Rotunda on September 4.

“This is an exciting time for the Baker Center,” Director Matt Murray said. “Senator Baker, who celebrates his eighty-eighth birthday on November 15, wanted to create a place where the campus and community could learn more about major issues facing our country.

“He also envisioned a place where students and faculty could nurture a ‘think tank’ atmosphere and become a source of expertise in the national discussion. We’ve made great strides toward that goal, and we’re excited as we plan the center’s future, focusing especially on energy and environmental issues, governance, and global security.”

Here’s the fall lineup. Events are free and open to the public unless other noted:

August 27—1:30 p.m., Baker Center Toyota Auditorium—Lugar will present Ashe Lecture.

August 29—3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Toyota Auditorium—Joshua Fu, UT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, will talk about modeling in climate change as part of the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment.

September 4—4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Tenth anniversary reception will be held in the Baker Center Rotunda.

September 17—5:30 p.m., Toyota Auditorium—Constitution Day panel discussion will feature several UT faculty members: Suzie Allard, associate professor of information sciences; Michael Berry, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning; Brandon Prins, associate professor of political science; and Glenn Reynolds, law professor.

September 26—3:30 to 5:00 p.m., 416 Dougherty Engineering Building—Jim Shortie, a professor at Penn State University, will talk about agricultural and environmental economics as part of the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment.

October 12—10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Toyota Auditorium—Working in collaboration with UT and city officials, students will develop suggestions for a parking policy for the future renovated Cumberland Strip. Check bakercenter.utk.edu for more information about how to participate.

October 24—6:00 to 7:30 p.m, Toyota Auditorium—Panelists from several universities will discuss emerging challenges to global security.

October 24—3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Toyota Auditorium—J.B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University, will talk about environmental law as part of the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment.

November 6—12:40 to 2:10 p.m., Toyota Auditorium—2013 Women’s Leadership Summit. The topic will be “Sustainable Quality of Life.” Co-sponsored by UT Center for Sustainable Business and Development.

November 13—1:30 p.m., University Center Auditorium—Tom Brokaw will give the Baker Distinguished Lecture. A Patrons Lunch will be held prior to the lecture. Cost is $250 per person and reservations are required. The free public lecture will be held at 1:30 p.m. in University Center Auditorium, 1502 Cumberland Avenue.

November 14—3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Toyota Auditorium—Bruce McCarl, a professor of agricultural economics at Texas A & M University, will talk about biofuels and climate change as part of the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment.

Established in 2003, the Baker Center seeks to further the public’s knowledge of the US government and public policy and to encourage civil leadership and public service. The center sponsors programs to encourage informed discussion, with a special focus on engaging young people in policy issues and public service.

For more information about the Baker Center, visit bakercenter.utk.edu.

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CONTACT:

Nissa Dahlin-Brown (865-974-8681, nissa@utk.edu)

Barber, founding director of the UT Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict, will share his experiences from his trips to Egypt at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, at the UT International House, 1623 Melrose Avenue.

The presentation, “From Rally to Revolution: Inside the Minds of Egyptian Youth Activists,” will focus on the roles of key youth based on Barber’s research in Egypt over the past two years. Barber’s presentation will include pictures, video clips from his time in Egypt, and a documentary trailer.

Barber and colleagues won a $450,000 grant from the Swiss-based Jacobs Foundation in 2011 to fund this study, which includes extensive interviews, a national survey, and the development phase of a documentary.

The UT Middle Eastern Student Association, in collaboration with the UT Issues Committee, is sponsoring the event. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Tuesday’s presentation will address how the Egyptian youngsters accomplished a fast overthrow of one of the strongest governments in the Middle East, how they effectively spread the spirit of revolt across the globe, their hope for meaningful change, their disappointment with the pace and degree of change, and how accurately the media has covered the role of youths in the revolution.

Barber is a professor of child and family studies in the UT College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and specializes in the study of cross-cultural parent-youth relations and adolescent development in the context of political conflict, with a particular focus on youth from the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and Bosnia.

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CONTACT:

Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lola.alapo@tennessee.edu)

Kluger will lecture on “Science as Civilizer” at 8:00 p.m. in the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

“I’m keenly interested in the way scientific knowledge doesn’t just edify but can also cleanse, producing a culture that doesn’t just get smarter but behaves better,” he said.

Kluger has worked at Time since 1996 and has written or co-written more than forty cover stories. Recent topics include NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, parental favoritism, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the discovery of the Higgs boson.

He also has written eight books, including Lost Moon: the Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which he co-authored with astronaut Jim Lovell. The book was the basis for the 1995 movie Apollo 13. Kluger was a technical advisor for the film and played a small role in it.

His other books include Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio and Freedom Stone, a children’s novel.

Kluger previously was a staff writer for Discover magazine, where he wrote the “Light Elements” humor column. He also was an editor for Family Circle and Science Digest.

He also is an attorney and has taught science journalism at New York University.

“I can’t wait to hear what he has to say about the idea that science makes people and society not only smarter but ethically better. I don’t know that anyone has proposed that idea before,” said Mark Littmann, professor of journalism and organizer of the lecture series.

The Hill Lecture brings science journalists to UT to share their thoughts on science, society and the mass media. Tom Hill and Mary Frances Hill Holton created an endowment for the lectures in honor of their parents, Alfred and Julia Hill, who founded the Oak Ridger newspaper.

The endowment was a gift to the School of Journalism and Electronic Media in the College of Communication and Information.

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C O N T A C T :

Mark Littmann (865-974-8156, littmann@utk.edu)

The lecture series is composed of exhibitions, presentations, and films. The series, which is free and open to the public, provides opportunities to gain insight to the works and ideas occurring in the architecture and design disciplines today.

All lecture series activities will be held at the Art and Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Boulevard. Lectures will begin at 5:30 p.m. and films will be shown at 8:00 p.m. in the McCarty Auditorium. The exhibitions will be featured in the Ewing Gallery and Gallery 103.

Webcasts of the lectures are also available through the college’s website.

The semester lineup includes:

Lectures:

August 27: UT Associate Professor Brian Ambroziak and Andrew McLellan, an architect and writer from Charlotte, North Carolina, will speak about their collaborative practice, time[scape]lab, which explores architectural space and landscape through design, theory, and writing. This will take place in conjunction with their exhibit Confabulatores Nocturni.

September 17: Occupation by Brad Cloepfil, an award-winning architect and educator from Allied Works Architecture in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Cloepfil is well-known for his design of museums, including the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, the Seattle Art Museum, and most recently the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.

September 24: Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio in Los Angeles. Ball-Nogues Studio combines digital and physical modeling in the creation of architecture, art, and product design. The firm was named an “Emerging Voice” by the Architectural League of New York in 2011.

October 8: Jane Amidon, a professor of landscape architecture and the director of the urban landscape program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, will discuss the emergence of entrepreneurial environments.

October 22: Architecture/Structure—The Art and Science of Building Design by John Zils, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. An architect, engineer, and former associate partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP in Chicago, Illinois, Zils has worked on many of SOM’s most iconic projects including the Hajj Terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The project was recently honored with the Twenty-Five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects.

November 5: Gregor Kalas, a UT assistant professor of architecture. An architectural historian, Kalas’ recent work examines medieval Benedictine monasteries.

November 12: Janusz Kapusta, an acclaimed Polish artist who lives in New York City, will lecture on his work, which will be presented as an exhibition in the Ewing Gallery. The lecture and exhibition is jointly sponsored by the College of Architecture and Design, the School of Art, and the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation.

Exhibitions:

August 20–September 09: Confabulatores Nocturni + Limited Vision, Ewing Gallery

August 27–September 21: Allied Works Architecture, Gallery 103

September 17–October 28: Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process and Boundaries of Drawing, Ewing Gallery

September 24–October 19: The work of Ball-Nogues Studio, Gallery 103

October 22–November 2: Architecture/Structure – the Work of SOM by John Zils, Gallery 103

November 1–November 14: Janusz Kapusta, Ewing Gallery

November 5–November 16: Finland Summer Program, the works and documented experiences of UT architecture and design students abroad, Gallery 103

November 18–December 12: The artworks of Joshua Bienko, Evan Meaney, Althea Murphy-Price and Karala Wozniak, Ewing Gallery

November 19–December 7: Florence Mini-term, Images taken during the college’s architectural photography summer course to Florence, Gallery 103

Films:

September 5: North by Northwest (1959) by Alfred Hitchcock.

September 26: Easy Rider (1969) by Dennis Hopper.

October 17: Paris, Texas (1984) by Wim Wenders.

October 26: Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino.

November 7: No Country for Old Men (2007) by Ethan and Joe Coen.

November 28: Man on Wire (2008) by James Marsh.

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C O N T A C T:

Kiki Roeder (865-974-6713, kroeder@utk.edu)

Hary’s lecture, “The Politics of Judeo-Arabic: Israel as a Bilingual State,” is being presented by the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies.

“We are fortunate to have a scholar as accomplished as Dr. Hary help us begin this new lecture series,” said Gilya Schmidt, a professor in religious studies and director of the Steinfeld program. The lecture was made possible through the Karen and Pace Robinson Enrichment Fund, which was created to support public lectures and scholarship on the state of modern-day Israel.

Hary is a professor of Hebrew, Arabic, and linguistics at Emory University. His books include Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic, Translating Religion, and Daily Life in Israel. He has published more than fifty articles and book reviews on Arabic and Hebrew linguistics as well as Judeo-Arabic, which is a continuum of Arabic dialects spoken by Jewish people living in the Arab world.

Following the presentation, a reception will be held upstairs at the McClung Museum. Both events are free and open to the public. Free parking will be available at Circle Park and in the C-8 commuter parking lot next to the museum.

For more information on the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies, visit the website.

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C O N T A C T :

Charles Primm (865-974-5180, charles.primm@tennessee.edu)

Liu will speak at 1 p.m. on Tuesday in Thompson-Boling Arena. The event is open to the public and free parking is available in G-10 parking garage.

The common reading selection is a key component in UT’s efforts to orient and engage new students in academic and campus life. Freshmen also must submit creative projects on one of the book’s themes and attend a small-group discussion session.

“By the time students have read the book, done their creative projects, and participated in a discussion group, they have a good feel for what college work is going to feel like,” said Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Martin. “As a bonus for our students, we plan the Life of the Mind common reading program with the intent of having the author come to campus to talk to students. It’s a rich experience to meet the author, hear him speak, and even have the opportunity to ask him a question.”

The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, was a New York Times Notable Book and was featured in the PBS documentary Matters of Race. It is an essay montage with themes ranging from race, language, and global politics to the feelings of inadequacy and ambivalence that often accompany the college transition.

Liu, a second-generation Chinese-American, is a graduate of Yale and Harvard and a former speechwriter and deputy domestic policy adviser for President Bill Clinton.

His other books include The True Patriot and The Gardens of Democracy, both co-authored with Nick Hanauer; Guiding Lights: How to Mentor and Find Life’s Purpose, which was named the official book of National Mentoring Month; and Imagination First, co-authored with Scott Noppe-Brandon of the Lincoln Center Institute, which explores ways to unlock imagination in education, politics, business, and the arts.

Liu lives in Seattle, where he also teaches at the University of Washington and leads the Guiding Lights Network, a national mentoring organization dedicated to promoting great citizenship. He also hosts an acclaimed television interview program called Seattle Voices.

Liu has served on the boards of the Washington State Board of Education, the Seattle Public Library, Demos, Washington State Mentors, the League of Education Voters, and the Swedish Medical Center Foundation. He has served on the national leadership councils of Communities in Schools and the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

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C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, ablakely@utk.edu)

Elizabeth Schonagen, First Year Studies program (865-974-2792, schonagen@utk.edu)