May 10, 1999 International Week May 10-15 New Dean for Health and Human Services Wired for Books Wins Award

• James Geschwender will be speaking tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in Bentley 233. He is past President of SSSP and Professor and Chair at SUNY Binghamton. The topic of his speech is "American Racism or Cultural Deficiency?: West Indians vs. Afro-Americans."
  
  
• As part of International Week '99, Keynote Speaker Walker Connor will be discussing "The Impact of Ethnonational and Religious Identities upon world affairs in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries." The speech will take place tonight at 8 p.m. in Irvine Hall Auditorium.
  
  
• For more, please visit the online Calendar of Events.

• Free Childhood Immunizations Offered
  
  
• 199 Bobcat Football Season Tickets Now Available
  
  
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus available.

Popular Literary Festival Features Renowned Writers Ohio University's 14th annual Spring Literary Festival in May features five nationally renowned authors who are among the most respected writers in their genres of poetry, fiction and essay. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford, fiction writer Ann Beattie, poets Mark Strand and Anne Carson and essayist Vivian Gornick will present lectures and public readings of their works during the festival May 12 through 14. The presentations, which are free and open to the public, will take place at 194 Irvine Auditorium on the Athens campus. The festival begins May 12 in Irvine Auditorium with readings by Carson at 7:30 p.m. and Ford at 8:30 p.m. On May 13, lectures will be presented by Strand at noon, Ford at 1 p.m. and Beattie at 7:30 p.m., and Gornick will read from her work at 8:30 p.m. On May 14, lectures will be presented by Carson at noon and Gornick at 1 p.m., and readings will be given by Beattie at 7:30 p.m. and Strand at 8:30 p.m. Books by the visiting writers will be for sale in the Irvine Auditorium lobby throughout the event. For more information, please read the full text of this press release.