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Our popular Friday Forum Speaker Series brings top-notch academic authors to speak and answer questions in the intimate setting of the fiction room at the Harvard Book Store. The series is free and begins at 3pm.

September 17
Julie A. Mertus, author of
"Julie Mertus has written the most informed, sophisticated, and convinving account of the struggle over the future of Kosovo. It also offers us an excellent model of scholarship, gracefully combining illuminating grassroots scholarship, first-hand witnessing, and balanced interpretative analysis." -- Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University

Julie Mertus is Professor of Law at Northern Ohio University. She is the coeditor of The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia, coauthor of Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses is Kosovo and of Local Action/Global Change. She has written numerous academic and general interest articles on human rights, ethnonational conflict, and international law.

October 8
Lawrence Friedman, author of
"In his magisterial and definitive biographical account of [Erikson] and his ideas, Lawrence Friedman unfolds for us the fullness of Erikson's development as both insider and outsider to the history of psychoanalysis...Must reading for all those who strive to understand more fully the evolving culture within which we have grown and live" -- Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, former president, American Psychoanalytic Association

Lawrence J. Friedman is professor of history at Indiana University and the author of four previous books. His Menninger: The Family and the Clinic was a finalist for the 1991 Albert J. Beveridge Award and Gregarious Saints won the Ohioana Book Award. He is a four-time recipient from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

October 15
Ian Shapiro, author of
Democracy and justice are often mutually antagonistic ideas, but in this innovative book, Ian Shapiro shows how and why they should be pursued together.

October 22
Peter Gallison and Emily Thompson, authors of .
These essays are divided into six sections to explore interdisciplinary speculations on how architecture and science influence each other's practice, development, and self-identity.

October 29
Marjorie Garber, author of

One Nation Under God is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Drawing on the extraordinary diversity of American cultures, this gathering of distinguished scholars considers how piety and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America's religious experience.

November 5
Richard Wightman Fox, author of

November 19
Martin Gilbert, author of



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