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Timothy Ferris, Professor and Science Writer
“The Science of Liberty: How Science Enabled the Rise of Democracy”
February 24
7:00P.M.
Toyota Auditorium
Free and open to the public. Reservations are not required.
The event will also be webcast
http://tinyurl.com/5rpm575
Dr. Ferris will talk about his book, The Science of Liberty. Part of the discussion will focus on how science is communicated and the impact on public policy. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Called "the best popular science writer in the English language" by The Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by The Washington Post, Ferris has received the American Institute of Physics prize and
a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his works have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Ferris has taught in five disciplines – astronomy, English, history,
journalism, and philosophy – at four universities. He is currently an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ferris is the author of a dozen books, among them Seeing in the Dark, The Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the Milky Way, which was translated into fifteen languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published
in the twentieth century. A former newspaper reporter and editor of Rolling Stone magazine, he has written over two hundred articles and essays for publications such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Forbes, Harper's, Life,
Nature, Time, Newsweek, Readers' Digest, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times.
Baker Center Luncheon:
A Conversation with His Excellency Samir Shakir M. Sumaida’ie, Iraq Ambassador
March 4
11:30 a.m.– 1 p.m., Toyota Auditorium
In partnership with the Department of Political Science and Susan and Jana Dakak
The event will also be webcast
http://tinyurl.com/4fv279s
Lunch is $15, payable by cash or check on the day of the event. ADVANCED Reservations are Required
--- If you find you cannot attend, please call and cancel.
Register deadline is February 28 (or until full) by clicking here http://tinyurl.com/4nkm96s
His Excellency, Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie, is Iraq’s ambassador to the United States since 2006. Prior to this appointment,
he was named Iraq’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in July 2004.
Ambassador Sumaida'ie previously served as the Minister of Interior in Baghdad, managed a domestic security force of over 120,000 and
worked towards reconstituting and reorganizing the Ministry and its operations. Ambassador Sumaida'ie
also
served as a member of Governing Council (GC) in Iraq. In the GC, he was Chairman of the Media Committee, and in that role he
helped found the Iraqi Telecoms and Media Commission and the Public Broadcasting Institution. For more information
on Ambassador Sumaida’ie, please visit http://www.iraqiembassy.us/Ambassador.htm
Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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