(The Series brochure is on the web at:
http://www.astate.edu/docs/lecture/Lect-Con0203.pdf

Arkansas State University’s 2002-03 Lecture~Concert Series will feature nine outstanding programs, according to Dr. David Levenbach, chair of the university’s Lecture~Concert Committee.

All of the programs in the series begin at 7:30 p.m., and admission is free.

Jeffrey Birnbaum, Washington bureau chief for Fortune magazine, will present a lecture to open the series on Thursday, Sept. 19, in Riceland Hall of Fowler Center. His topic is "Enron-to-WorldCom: Politics and Ethics Unusual."

This will be a joint presentation with the College of Business.

Sarantis Symeonoglou, professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, will speak Thursday, Oct. 17, on "Odysseus at Home" and the organization he founded to study the relationship of the island of Ithaka to the Ithaka detailed in Homer’s "Odyssey." His lecture will be in the drama theatre of Fowler Center.

This will be a joint presentation with the Department of History.

Winona LaDuke, who was the vice presidential candidate on the Green Party presidential ticket with Ralph Nader in 2000, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 24, also in the Fowler Center drama theatre.

An activist in Native American, environmental, and women’s issues, her topic is "A Model for the Future: People, Politics, Profit."

Her appearance is presented with support from the College of Communications, the Department of Criminology, Sociology, Social Work, & Geography, and the Department of English & Philosophy.

Pianist György Sándor will perform in concert on Thursday, Oct. 31, in Riceland Hall. His program will include Bartók’s Dance Suite, which he premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1945 with Bartok in the audience. He also has scheduled pieces by Beethoven and Schumann for what will be a return engagement in Jonesboro. This is a joint presentation with KASU-FM.

On Wednesday, Nov. 13, Mike Reiss will present a lecture he calls "Simpson Family Values," in the Reng Center Ballroom. Reiss earned four Emmy awards as a producer and writer during 11 seasons on "The Simpsons."

His program is presented with support from the College of Communications.

The next concert in the series will be given by cellist Stephen Framil, on Thursday, Jan. 30, in Riceland Hall. Framil is the co-founder and director of chamber music for the Napa Valley Festival of Music and professor of music at Andrews University.

The following month, Capriccio, a flute and harp duo, will perform in concert in the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall on Thursday, Feb. 20. Donna Milanovich, flute, and Stephen Hartman, harp, collaborated as members of the Warner Brothers Symphony Orchestra before forming Capriccio.

Big Jack Johnson will perform his style of blues guitar on Thursday, March 27, in the Reng Center Ballroom. Johnson, "The Oilman," or just Jack, is a native Mississippian who has shared his talent with audiences around the world as a member of famous blues trios and has fronted his own band.

His appearance at ASU is a joint presentation with Delta Blues Symposium IX: Defining the Delta.

Concluding the concert side of the series on Monday, March 31, will be jazz vocalist Kathy Kosins, who will perform in concert with ASU’s Tribe jazz band at Riceland Hall.

Kosins draws on her Motown roots, rich voice and talent as a composer to entertain her audiences. Her concert is another joint presentation with the Department of Music.

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