Law in Motion Key Note Address with Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Elizabeth Fenn
When:
Thursday, May 12, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
Where: Norris University Center, Northwestern Room, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Joanna Grisinger
(847) 467-2207
Group: Center for Legal Studies
Category: Academic
Description:
Join Legal Studies for our annual Law in Motion Key Note Address. This year our keynote speaker is Historian Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan Peoples.
*A One Book One Northwestern event.
Reception 4:00 -4:30pm
Lecture 4:30-5:30pm
Elizabeth Fenn's illustrated slide-lecture derives from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, which tells the story of North Dakota’s Mandan Indians. Widely known for hosting Lewis and Clark during the winter of 1804-05, the Mandans proved resilient and adaptable in the face of challenges that included epidemics of smallpox and whooping cough and invasions of Norway rats.