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McFarlin Fellows Programs
The various McFarlin Fellows speakers and programs thus far:
| 1992 | ||
| Spring | Richard Murphy (Cultivation dinner
held in George Gilpin's home) Poet |
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| Oct 22 | Helen Vendler (Cultivation dinner
held in George Gilpin's home) Scholar |
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| December | Meeting to establish the McFarlin Fellows, based on those earlier dinners | |
| 1993 | ||
| 18 Oct | Geoffrey Ward and Dayton Duncan Filmmaker |
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| 1994 | ||
| February 3 | Richard Murphy (On writing
his memoirs) Poet |
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| March 22 | V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World Nobel Laureate, Author |
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| November 15 | Parker J. Palmer
(On the utility of rare book collections) Author |
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| 1995 | ||
| February 15 | James Fallows Editor, Commentator, Author |
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| April 25 | Joan Troccoli
(On George Catlin and Sir thomas Phillipps) Deputy Director at the Denver Art Museum. |
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| October 10 | Philip Ziegler (London at
War) Biographer, Historian |
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| October 22 | William Kittredge and Annick Smith Authors |
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| November 17 | Ben Graf Henneke (Laura Keene) | |
| 1996 | ||
| February 21 | Mary Robinson The President of Ireland |
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| March 11 | Ken Burns Filmmaker |
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| April 1 | David Vaisey (Bodley
Library: Past Treasures, Future Prospects) Bodley's Librarian |
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| September 16 | William Eddins Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. |
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| October 16 | Laura Wee Láy Láq (Examination of the pre-Columbian pottery collections) | |
| October 24 | Lucille Clifton (cancelled due to illness) | |
| November 19 | A. G. Mojtabai (On hospice
volunteering) Author |
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| 1997 | ||
| 4 Feb | Colin Franklin (Twenty-Five
Years a Bookseller) |
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| April 3 | Thomas F. Staley Director of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin |
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| September 25 | Jim Watson (On Faulkner at
100) Faulkner scholar |
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| October 22 | Scott Ellsworth (On Huck
Finn) Historian |
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| 1998 | ||
| April 27 | Darcy O’Brien
(Readings from his work) Author |
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| October 29 | Charles Brown (Mixed
Blessings: The Complex Social Life of the Cliff Swallow) Biologist |
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| 1999 | ||
| January 12 | Sidney F. and Elizabeth Stege Huttner
(Orchids, Gold Leaf and Padded Leather: The
Adventures of 'Lucille' in America) Book Collectors |
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| April 15 | V. S. Naipaul
(Beyond Belief) Nobel Laureate, Author |
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| September 23 | Philbrook Exhibit of Artists Books |
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| October 21 | Robert Hirst
(Editing Mark Twain) Chief editor of the Mark Twain Project |
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| 2000 | ||
| February 17 | Carl Rollyson
(On biography and Rebecca West) Biographer |
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| September 14 | Rupert Hart Davis library unwrapping |
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| March 30 | Mark Singer
(On the New Yorker) Author |
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| October 19 | John Edgar Wideman Author |
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| 2001 | ||
| February 22 | John Agresto Scholar, Political Scientist |
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| April 26 | Seamus Heaney Nobel Laureate, Poet |
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| November 8 | Tim O’Brien Author |
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| 2002 | ||
| March 7 | Brian Greene
(The Elegant Universe) Physicist and Author |
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| April 24 | Ronald M. George (On law as
literature) Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court |
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| October 24 | Ron Carlson Author |
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| 2003 | ||
| March 6 |
Eva Brann
(On Paul Scott's Towers of Silence) Scholar |
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| April 22 |
Calvin Trillin Humorist |
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| June 16 |
Private showing of "In Good Company", an exhibit on James Joyce, in
conjuction with an international literary symposium |
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| September 16 | Peter Mattiessen Author, Naturalist |
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| November 6 | J. M. Coetzee Author |
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| 2004 | ||
| April 20 | Richard Preston Author |
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| October 7 | Luca Crispi and Stacey Herbert Scholars |
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| 2005 | ||
| February 19 | Jim Ronda Historian |
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| April 11 | Rick West Curator |
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| October 10 | Miguel Angel Centeno Scholar |
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| 2006 | ||
| January 26 | Gordon Taylor Scholar |
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| April | Courtney Brkic
(Readings from The Stone Fields) Author |
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| October | Charles Kimball (On Islam) Author, Theologian |
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| 2007 | ||
| February | Nancy Pearl Author, Librarian |
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| April 19 | Michiel Heyns Scholar, Author |
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| November 1 | Scott Ellsworth (On 100
years of Oklahoma statehood) Historian |
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| 2008 | ||
| February 7 | Jim Ronda Historian |
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| April 10 | Brenda Maddox, Lady Maddox Author, Scholar |
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| 2009 | ||
| October 22 | James G. Watson English (Out of the Mississippi Attenuated: Working with William Faulkner) |
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