Harriet Washington, Editor
and Medical Ethicist
“Medical Apartheid”

Wednesday, September 26
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Harriet A. Washington, a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law, is a medical ethicist and writer who spent 2002-2005 as a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. She has also been a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University, a Fellow of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and a recipient of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health. As an award-winning medical writer and editor, her work focuses upon the intersection of medical ethics, biotechnology, law and history of medicine. She has been a contributor, news editor, science editor and medical columnist for a number of newspapers and national magazines. She is the founding editor of The Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health and has been published in academic publications as well, among them Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, the Harvard Public Health Review and the Harvard AIDS Review. Her many laurels include three first-place awards for medical investigative reporting, the 2007 BCALA nonfiction book award and the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award. 

Washington has presented her work in public health, medical ethics and the history of medicine at dozens of universities at home and abroad, including Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago Medical School, Stanford Law School, Albert Einstein Medical School and schools of medicine in Geneva, Vienna, Berlin and Lübeck. She is a scheduled Plenary Speaker at the American Society of Bioethics 2007 Annual Meeting and she is also the immediate past board president of the Ferre Institute, which is devoted to reproductive and genetics issues.  

Her books on medicine include the award-winning 2007 best seller Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation with African Americans from the Colonial Era to the Present, as well as lauded books on hepatitis C, Parkinson’s disease and African American health issues.

She is a member of the boards of DePaul University’s Health Law Institute, the Journal of the National Medical Association and American Legacy magazine. Washington has taught at venues such as New School University, SUNY, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Writers & Books and has worked as a tutor in Latin at the University of Rochester and as a teaching assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health. Washington has also worked as a social worker, as the manager of a poison center and as a classical-music announcer for public radio. 

Lyceum Series
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Calendar

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Fall 2007

Thursday, September 6 — Byron Pitts, CBS Reporter
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26 — Harriet Washington, Editor
and Medical Ethicist
“Medical Apartheid”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 4 — Dr. Na’im Akbar, Psychologist
“What Will Our Legacy Be?”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 24 — Beatrice Thompson, News Anchor and Talk Show Host
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 1 — Lyceum Program in Collaboration with the JCSU Violence
Prevention Coalition
Tony Porter, Educator and Activist
“A Call To Men”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 14 — Dr. Brian Johnson, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
“W.E.B. Du Bois, Becoming Agnostic”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

SPRING 2008

Thursday, January 24 — Co-Sponsored by the Lyceum
Program and the African and African-American Studies Program
“A Woman, Ain’t I?”
Sojourner Truth as recreated by Kathryn Woods
Dramatic Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 6 — Faculty Showcase Event
Dr. Gregory Thompson
Chair, Department of Music Johnson C. Smith University
Piano and Woodwind Quintet Recital
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.

Friday, February 15 — Dr. Maha Gingrich's Indian
Dance Students
“Dances of India”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 18 — Lyceum Program in Collaboration
with THE JCSU Violence Prevention Coalition
Kevin Powell, Political Activist
“Sexism From a Male Perspecitve”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 — Thirteenth Annual World of
Words Poetry Festival
Dr. Patrica Jabbeh Wesley, Poet
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.

Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 — ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to circumstances beyond our control, these Lyceum Poetry Festival events will be changed. 
Tyehimba Jess is not able to perform at this time.

Thursday, March 27 — Metta S. Sáma, Poet
(Formerly Lydia Melvin)
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.

Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 28 — Thirteenth World of Words
Poetry Festival
Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11 — JCSU Ira B. Aldridge
Drama Guild Performance
The Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 17 — Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon,
Music Historian
“Notes from the Cultural Autobiography of a Freedom Singer”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.