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Northwest Missouri State University


Schedule of Events (2011-12 Season)

Dina Temple-Raston (James H. Lemon Lecture)

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 12
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts

A long-time foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia, Temple-Raston also served as Bloomberg News' White House correspondent during both Clinton administrations and currently reports about counterterrorism at home and abroad for NPR News. She is the award-winning author of "A Death in Texas" which won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was chosen as one of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2002. Her second book, "Justice in the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption," was a Foreign Affairs magazine best-seller.

Rev. Stanley Archie (Ploghoft Diversity Lecture)

Date: Thursday, Nov. 10
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts

Archie serves as the vice president of the Missouri State Board of Education. He also serves as board chairman of the Kansas City Leadership Foundation and owner and principal consultant with Successful Edge Consultants. In 2008, Archie was chosen by the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) to serve on a NASBE task force to formulate state policies to reform middle schools. He is senior pastor of the Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo.

T.C. Boyle (Visiting Writer's Series)

Date: Wednesday, March 14
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts

Boyle is the best-selling author of 22 books of fiction, including, most recently, "When the Killing's Done," "Wild Child" and "The Women." His work has been translated into more than two dozen languages and his stories have appeared in numerous major American magazines. Boyle has been the recipient of a number of literary awards including the PEN/Faulkner prize for best novel of the year. He is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California.

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