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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
  Oct 22 Helen Vendler (Cultivation dinner held in George Gilpin's home)
Scholar
  December Meeting to establish the McFarlin Fellows, based on those earlier dinners

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

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