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FREE LECTURE: J. Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Times
Author and scholar Clay Jenkinson will give a free lecture on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Thompson Recital Hall on the Bemidji State University campus. Jenkinson will explore the deeply complex mind and soul of this brilliant American physicist who has been called the "father of the atomic bomb." The lecture is in preparation for Jenkinson's onstage, first-person portrayal of Oppenheimer on February 12th as part of a performance with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra.
Jenkinson, a leading U.S. humanities scholar and lecturer, is widely praised for his first-person interpretations of historical characters such as Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Meriwether Lewis. He lectures widely on history and the humanities using a style that is both enlightening and intentionally thought-provoking, but not without wit and humor.
Jenkinson is the recipient of a Charles Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities; is host of the nationally syndicated radio program The Thomas Jefferson Hour; and is the author of such books as Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century and Theodore Roosevelt in the Dakota Badlands. He is the director of the Dakota Institute in Washburn, ND; president of Dakota Sky Education; founder and chief consultant for the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University; and is the Bismarck State College Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities. He has appeared on The Today Show, Politically Incorrect, CNN, and The Colbert Report. He lives and writes in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Jenkinson will be signing books at Book World in downtown Bemidji on Saturday, February 11th at 2:00 PM where his latest books on Meriwether Lewis and Theodore Roosevelt will be available.
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LocationThompson Recital Hall, Bemidji State University (View)
1500 Birchmont Drive
Bemidji, MN 56601
United States
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