AC Creative Mind Lecture Series
APRIL 10
Dr. TOM PALAIMA
UT-AUSTIN PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Tom Palaima is Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Palaima received a five-year MacArthur fellowship for work on Aegean scripts, focused on paleography, scribal systems, and the use of the Linear B tablets to answer questions about many aspects of life in Greek prehistory. He has taught seminars, written articles, book reviews and intellectual commentaries, and lectured, on human creative responses to war, violence and social injustice, and songs as social commentary, including the song poems of Bob Dylan. He wrote more than 300 editorials for the Austin-American Statesman.
APRIL 11
STEVE JENKINS
DIRECTOR, BOB DYLAN CENTER
Steven Jenkins, the director of the Bob Dylan Center, is a 30-year veteran of the nonprofit sector, having held leadership positions at the University of California Press, Glide Foundation, San Francisco Film Society/San Francisco International Film Festival, Frameline/San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, and the Ansel Adams Center for Photography. Jenkins served as Editor-in-Chief of Artweek and Bay Area Citysearch; Senior Editor of see: a journal of visual culture; and has contributed articles national publications.
Poster: Knocking on Heaven's Door
APRIL 10 & 11
DYLAN-SONG-INSPIRED PRINTS
MORTEN EHRHORN
Arrive early to the lecture and film screening and check out 10 Dylan-song-inspired prints, created by Danish artist, Morten Ehrhorn. Prints will be displayed in the Common Lobby outside of AC's Concert Hall Theatre. Proceeds from the signed and numbered prints will support the Creative Mind Lecture Series.