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2008 Dooley Lecture Series

 

Hasia Diner Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Hasia Diner
Danny Kaye Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m.
Hasia Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She is also a Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History, and the Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Dr. Diner is the author of several books, including The Jews of the United States, 1645 to 2000, The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America, and Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration.
Eduardo Machado & Michael Domitrovich Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Eduardo Machado & Michael Domitrovich
Danny Kaye Theatre 2:30–4 p.m.
An internationally acclaimed playwright, Eduardo Machado has grappled with questions of identity, loss, and resistance throughout his life and work. His fearless style and unabashed politicism in the face of dissent have made him a controversial figure to the Cubans and Americans on opposite sides of an intense conflict. He is the author of the "Cook" and over 40 other plays. Mr. Machado currently teaches playwriting at New York University and is the artistic director for INTAR Theater in New York City. He previously served as the head of the Columbia University Graduate Playwriting Department. He has taught playwriting at the Public Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Playwrights Center. His most recent book is Tastes Like Cuba: An Exiles Hunger for Home, published by Penguin Group (USA) in November 2007.

Playwright and co-author of Tastes Like Cuba, Michael Domitrovich is the author of the plays Artfuckers, Dirtfag, and Goatgod. Raised in a family of restaurateurs, he has worked many stints in the restaurant business. He is currently writing a play about young NYC chefs, as well as a novel (with recipes) about the waitstaff at a seasonal restaurant on Martha's Vineyard. He is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Peter Singer Thursday, August 14, 2008
Peter Singer
EcoLab Theatre 2:30–4 p.m.
Peter Singer is one of the world's best known, and most controversial, philosophers who claims "an abhorrence of suffering and cruelty" as the foundation of his ideology. His book, Animal Liberation, helped spark the modern animal-rights movement. He is currently a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Singer is the author of numerous books, including Practical Ethics, One World: Ethics of Globalization, Factory Farms, The Ethics of What We Eat and Rethinking Life and Death.
Lydia Davis Thursday, September 11, 2008
Lydia Davis
EcoLab Theatre 2:30–4 p.m.
Lydia Davis is an innovator of the short story form. Acclaimed for their brevity (many are only one or two sentences long) and humor, her stylistic hallmarks of minimalist wordplay—with initial quick humor that then cause the reader to think again—offer up crisp twists on familiar themes. Davis is the author of four collections of short fiction, including Varieties of Disturbance (2007) and a novel, The End of the Story.
Pete Daniel Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Pete Daniel
"Fast Company: Stock Car Racing's Early Days"
EcoLab Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m.
Dr. Daniel is a curator in the Division of Work and Industry at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. His most recent book is Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s won the OAH Elliot Rudwick Prize. He is president of the Organization of American Historians and past president of the Southern Historical Association.
Frederick Douglass Opie Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Frederick Douglass Opie
"Eateries in Europe, Africa & the Americas before 1888"
EcoLab Theatre 2:30–4 p.m.
Dr. Opie is the author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America and the forthcoming book Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882–1923. He is an Associate Professor and Director of the African Diaspora Program at Marist College, NY.
Marion Nestle Thursday, December 4, 2008
Marion Nestle
"Food Politics: Chefs in the Middle"
Danny Kaye Theatre 2:30–4 p.m.
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988–2003. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines scientific, economic, and social influences on food choice. She is the author of three prizewinning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism, and What to Eat. Her latest book is Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. Her Web site is www.foodpolitics.com, and since May 2007 she has been blogging at www.whattoeatbook.com.
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