Indiana University Bloomington
William T. Patten Foundation
 
“Education is our outstanding asset. Our American system of education is what has made these United States the outstanding nations of the world.... Education is our surest guarantee of maintaining our present high standing and of providing for our future advancement.”—William T. Patten
Werner Sollors Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English, Harvard University
Werner Sollors
One of the world's foremost Americanist literary critics today, a former Guggenheim and NEH Fellow, and founder of the Longfellow Institute, Professor Sollors is the author of groundbreaking and prolific work in race studies, multilingualism in American culture, post-war America and Germany, and ethnic modernism that continues to shape and revise contemporary debates about race, language, and ethnic literature.

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Werner Sollors
African American Intellectuals in Europe in the Interwar Period
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Chemistry 122
"Heil, Johnny": Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair, or, The Denazification of Erika von Schlütow
Thursday, January 22, 2009
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Chemistry 122
A note from the Executive Director
The Patten Lecture series brings world renowned writers, artists, and scholars to Bloomington for a week-long residence. During their stay, Patten guests deliver public lectures, meet and work with students, attend faculty colloquia, and visit some of the treasure on campus and in town. A gift to Indiana University from one of its alumni, William T. Patten, the Patten Foundation and its lecture series have been an integral part of the Bloomington community since 1936, bringing citizens together to learn, to talk, to appreciate human creativity from around the globe, and to benefit from that education.

Each year, the Patten series welcomes not only its illustrious guests; it welcomes all of us. I look forward to seeing you at our upcoming lectures. — Laura Plummer