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The Lectures generally will be scheduled at the University on the second or third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM, followed by a reception where interaction and conversation can take place between the speaker and audience participants.

JCU is honored to present for the first semester three outstanding speakers and topics, detailed inside. Please mark your calendars now. From time to time, special Presidential lectures will be announced under separate mailings.

For further inquiry, please contact Dr. Diana Lambert, the JCU Lectures Coordinator, at the University: 06- 6819121. To be added to the mailing list, please contact Mrs. Giosy Cesarini, at the University: 06-68191216 (voice) and 06-6832088 (fax).

The Ancient Library at Alexandria

Derek Adie Flower

Mr. Flower will lecture on the Ancient Library of Alexandria, created 2300 years ago by Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter and which became for six centuries thereafter the epicenter of Mediterranean learning to which flocked the most eminent scholars, scientists and philosophers of the Ancient World. His talk will encompass a profile of those responsible for the Library's creation as well as its influence on Western culture. A videotape, with commentary by Omar Shariff, will also be shown.

Derek Flower (Oxford MA) was born in Geneva and spent his childhood and early youth between Cairo and Alexandria resulting in a lifelong passion for all things Egyptian. Mr. Flower, who has published novels on Alexandria and on Pharaonic Egypt, and most recently a non-fiction book on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the world's first great library and International Culture Center), now resides in Rome while spending several weeks a year in Egypt.

Nella foto Sua Eccellenza Signor Ambasciatore ABDEL LATIF presso lo Stato Italiano e lo scrittore Derek Adie Flower autore del libro The Ancient Libray at Alexandria

Media and Politics

Marino de Medici

There are serious questions raised as to whether the growth of the media and the explosion of information have helped in promoting democracy and in providing the public with reliable information in acquiring an adequate understanding of the issues. The topic is particularly salient in the United States where the media are more completely controlled by private corporations than in any other industrialized country. Yet, the range of political opinion available in the mainstream media of the United States is narrower than Western Europe. This lecture will examine why citizens have become atomized individual television watchers and no longer capable or willing to deliberate among themselves and to exchange political views. Internet challenges will be addressed also.

Marino de Medici was the Dean of Foreign Correspondents in Washington and has reported from the United States from 1960 to 1987. He has written extensively about the relationship between the U.S. and Italy. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor of Communications at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Mr. de Medici holds two American degrees, a B.A. from the University of Washington and an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Eliot, Dante and Four Quartets:

The Enigma of Burnt Norton

Doug Thompson

'Burnt Norton' was the closing poem of Eliot's collected verse (1909-1935) and conceived as a meditation on the nature of time. It was not composed as the first in a quartet of poems; the idea of four linked poems about time and the timeless came later. Taking Dante of the Divina Commedia as his guide, Eliot seeks in the Quartets to penetrate the intense darkness and light of the hoped-for realm of the after-life, by showing that time is not sequence, rather time and the timeless are closely interwoven. In the four poems, Eliot constructs a logical path to the likelihood of the Incarnation. Just as Dante begins with sexual love and ends with love etherialised, so too Eliot seeks a similar path. This lecture defines the nature of 'Burnt Norton's' very particular contribution to the whole design.

Doug Thompson holds degrees from the Universities of Leeds, Reading and Hull and is now Emeritus Professor of Modern Italian Literature and History at the University of Hull. He is author and editor of a dozen books and many articles; his most recent book is Transfiguration and Reconciliation in Eliot's 'Four Quartets'. He has published one novel, and has also recently co-translated Paola Capriolo's Il doppio regno (The Dual Realm).

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