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MARIST COLLEGE is a comprehensive institution grounded in the liberal arts, with
its main campus located in the historic Hudson River Valley of New York and a branch
campus in the rich cultural center of Florence, Italy. The College is listed as one of the
nation’s top institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review, which
has featured Marist in its “best colleges” guide for 11 consecutive years. Only about 15
percent of America’s 2,500 primarily undergraduate colleges are featured in the annual
guide. For the 7th consecutive year, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has included Marist on
its list of America’s best values in private colleges, and U.S. News & World Report ranks
Marist 8th among northern institutions. U.S. News also ranks two Marist online degree
programs—the MBA and the BA/BS in liberal studies—in the top 20 “Best Online
Education Programs.” Marist is distinguished by its longtime partnership with IBM,
which supports Marist’s world-class technology platform, and the Marist Institute for
Public Opinion, one of the premier independent survey research centers in the nation.
Marist offers a variety of programs at its branch campus in FLORENCE, ITALY,
ranging from a structured freshman-year experience and semester- and year-long
placements in the junior or senior year to four-year bachelor’s degree programs in
seven fields of study and a Master of Arts in museum studies. For information visit
www.marist.edu/florence.
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3399 North Rd.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387
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A bequest by one of the 20th century’s leading
businessmen and industrialists established the
RAYMOND A. RICH INSTITUTE FOR
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT to educate
individuals in the art of leadership for careers in business,
government, and the nonprofit sector. The institute is
based at the 60-acre Hudson Valley historic riverfront
estate bequeathed by Mr. Rich to Marist College in 2009.
For information visit www.marist.edu/richinstitute.
Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Analyst for CNN
and Staff Writer for The New Yorker
Jeffrey
Toobin
Dr. Jaap
Jacobs
Veronica Spencer
and David Lacks, Jr.
Yossi Klein
Halevi
Michael
Greenberger
7 p.m., Wednesday, September 18
Nelly Goletti Theatre
7 p.m., Thursday, October 10
Nelly Goletti Theatre
1 p.m., Wednesday, October 9
McCann Center
Followed by a book signing
7 p.m., Tuesday, October 29
Nelly Goletti Theatre
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 13
Hancock Center, Room 2023
37th Annual
William and
Sadie Effron
Lecture in
Jewish Studies
The 2nd Annual
Handel-Krom
Lecture in
Hudson River
Valley History
Analyzing Politics,
Media, and the Law
The high-profile senior analyst for CNN and
staff writer for The New Yorker, JEFFREY
TOOBIN is one of the country’s most
esteemed experts on politics, media, and
the law. His newest book, The Oath, is an
insider’s account of the ideological war
between the John Roberts Supreme Court
and the Obama administration. It’s a sequel
to his best seller The Nine: Inside the Secret
World of the Supreme Court. Toobin is also
the author of best seller Too Close to Call: The
36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election.
Prior to joining The New Yorker in 1993,
Mr. Toobin was an assistant U.S. attorney
in Brooklyn, NY. He also served as an
associate counsel in the Office of Independent
Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, an experience
that provided the basis for his first book,
Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First
Case: United States v. Oliver North. His other
books also look behind the scenes at the
legal system: A Vast Conspiracy explored the
impeachment of Bill Clinton, and The Run of
His Life examined the O.J. Simpson trial.
Mr. Toobin received his bachelor’s from
Harvard College and graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard Law School.
“Spacious and Broad, Clear
and Deep”: The Hudson River
and Dutch Colonization
In his 1655 Description of New Netherland,
Adriaen van der Donck praised the Hudson
River profusely, calling it “spacious and
broad, clear and deep.” The Hudson River
was essential to the Dutch colony in many
ways. In his lecture, DR. JAAP JACOBS
will explore how the Dutch perceived the
river, what it reminded them of, how it fit
into the Dutch colonial culture, and how the
colonists used it as a resource.
Dr. Jacobs teaches history at the University
of St. Andrews in Scotland, and is one of
the leading authorities on the history of the
Dutch in the Americas in the early modern
period. He has taught at the University of
Amsterdam, Cornell University, the University
of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University.
He has published widely on New Netherland
and New Amsterdam, including The Colony
of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement
in Seventeenth-Century America (Cornell
University Press, 2009). He is currently
working on a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant.
The Palestinian-Israeli Tragedy: Why is a Solution so Elusive?
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Story Continues
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black
tobacco farmer undergoing cancer treatment whose cells—taken without her knowledge in
1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital to the development of modern
vaccines, cancer treatments, in vitro fertilization techniques, and more. HeLa cells are the
most widely used human cell lines in existence. Mrs. Lacks’s cells have been bought and sold
by the billions, yet she has been virtually unknown.
The international success of Rebecca Skloot’s New York Times best seller, The Immortal Life
of Henrietta Lacks, has left people keenly interested in the Lacks family and Mrs. Lacks’s
legacy. On Aug. 7, 2013, the National Institutes of Health announced that it had reached
an understanding with Mrs. Lacks’s descendants to allow biomedical researchers controlled
access to the whole genome data of cells derived from her tumor.
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI is a senior fellow
at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
He is a contributing editor of the New Republic
and a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages
of leading American newspapers including the
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los
Angeles Times. A visiting professor at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New York, he is often
interviewed on Israeli and Middle East affairs
by international media including CNN, BBC,
and NPR.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was designated as the Common Reading for
incoming Marist first-year students in fall 2013. The Common Reading
is a cornerstone of the Marist Core, a curriculum required of all
students at the College.
His new book, Like Dreamers: The Story of the
Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem
and Divided a Nation, has been called “the
Israeli epic” by Michael Oren, Israel’s U.S.
ambassador. His book At the Entrance to the
Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with
Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land was
hailed as “a permanent masterwork” by novelist
Cynthia Ozick. The New York Times called his
first book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, “of
burning importance … Mr. Halevi’s achievement
is to make his coming of age in marginal
Brooklyn seem a drama central to Jewish life.”
The 2013 Marist Autumn
Lecture Series is sponsored by
the Office of Academic Affairs
Mr. Halevi also has been active in Middle East
reconciliation work. Born in New York, he holds
a BA in Jewish studies from Brooklyn College
and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern
University.
In this appearance, VERONICA SPENCER, Mrs. Lacks’s great granddaughter, and
DAVID LACKS, JR., her grandson, will share what it meant to find out—decades after the
fact—that her cells were being used in laboratories around the world. The family’s presence
will put a personal face on issues such as the history of experimentation on African Americans,
the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over who controls what our bodies are made of.
The Financial
Crisis, Dodd-Frank,
and the Future of
Financial Regulation
MICHAEL GREENBERGER is the founder
and director of the University of Maryland’s
Center for Health and Homeland Security,
a nonprofit academic consulting center with
more than 50 professionals working on over 90
contracts worldwide in the areas of emergency
planning and preparedness, cybersecurity,
and public health policy. As a professor at the
University of Maryland Francis King Carey
School of Law since 2001, Mr. Greenberger also
led the development of three related courses, and
he continues to teach a class entitled “Homeland
Security and the Law of Counterterrorism.”
Mr. Greenberger also has substantial experience
in, and teaches a course on, financial market
regulation. As a former director of the Division
of Trading and Markets within the Commodity
Futures Training Commission, he is frequently
asked to testify before Congressional committees
on complex financial regulatory issues, especially
on unregulated derivatives. His financial
expertise is also called upon by media across the
globe, as well as for academic gatherings.
During his professional career, Professor
Greenberger has been recognized for his
accomplishments through appointments such
as the American Bar Association’s Law and
National Security Advisory Committee, the
Commission on Maryland Cybersecurity
Innovation and Excellence, and as former chair
and vice chair of the Maryland Governor’s
Emergency Management Advisory Council.