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Curt Ellis | Jean Bethke Elshtain | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Gabriella Etmektsoglou
Curt Ellis
Curt Ellis is a freelance filmmaker and writer. He co-created and appeared in the Mosaic Films feature documentary King Corn, which was released theatrically by Balcony Releasing in 2007 and was broadcast nationally on PBS in April, 2008. His work with King Corn has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, and on NPR, CBS, ABC and CNN. He continues to travel and speak about the connections between farm policy, large-scale corn production, family farm loss, and obesity.
Curt’s writing has appeared in Edible Portland, Edible Missoula, Culinate, the Lincoln, NE Journal-Star and on the Slow Food Nation Blog. In 2007, Curt produced the Wicked Delicate Films feature documentary The Greening of Southie, which premiered in the US on the Sundance Channel on Earth Day 2008.
Curt is now focusing his efforts on the production of Big River, a 30-minute documentary that explores the water quality impacts of high-intensity farming in the Upper Midwest. That project, funded in part by The McKnight Foundation, is scheduled for completion in late spring, and will be accompanied by a policy tour and outreach campaign. (2008)
May 8, 2009
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Elshtain is a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and ethical convictions. Her books include Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social Thought; The Family in Political Thought; Meditations on Modern Political Thought; Women and War; Democracy on Trial (a New York Times “Notable Book” for 1995); Augustine and the Limits of Politics; Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life; New Wine in Old Bottles: Politics and Ethical Discourse; and Who Are We? Critical Reflections, Hopeful Possibilities, for which she received the Theologos Award for Best Academic Book 2000 by the Association of Theological Booksellers.
In 2006, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and also delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, joining such previous Gifford Lecturers as William James, Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth, and Reinhold Niebuhr. The lectures are forthcoming under the title Sovereignties: God, State, and Self (2008). (2007)
September 24-25, 2005
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, considered Germany’s most important living poet, is also a highly regarded essayist, journalist, dramatist, editor, publisher, and translator. Enzensberger’s books include Europe, Europe: Forays Into a Continent, Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, Zig-Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa, and the mathematical adventure The Number Devil. Born in 1929 in Bavaria, he was educated in German universities and also the Sorbonne in Paris. His many awards include the Nuremberg Cultural Prize and the Pasolini Prize. (2007)
April 17, 2007
Gabriella Etmektsoglou
Gabriella Etmeksoglou is an independent historian and scholar/researcher based in Berlin. (2006)