The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute is an international literary center dedicated to promoting discourse on today‘s most pressing issues. Activities sponsored by BMI encourage dialogue, in opposition to monologue, as a necessary tool in the deepening of cross-cultural understanding. To that end, the program provides venues in which lively communication between people of unlike minds can occur. The Lectures & Events collection includes podcasts of KNPR interviews; the KUNV Nexus series of discussions; lectures; panel discussions and readings.
Submissions from 2009
Reading and conversation, Russell Banks
The Reserve, Russell Banks
Books into film: How novels become movies, Russell Banks and Guinevere Turner
Good food and good eating, Christine Bergman and Raj Patel
Homer & Langley, E. L. Doctorow
KNPR interview, E. L. Doctorow
In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp, Er Tai Gao and Robert Dorsett
A Handbook to Luck, Cristina Garcia
Readings from recent works, Cristina Garcia
Craft: A conversation, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Mary Palevsky, and Robert Rosenberg
KNPR interview, Robert Rosenberg, Luljeta Lleshanaku, and Mary Palevsky
KNPR interview, Kay Ryan
Reading of selected poems, Kay Ryan
Food and hunger: Eating in America, Alice Waters, Raj Patel, and David Masumoto
Submissions from 2008
KNPR interview, Tom Bissell
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, Tom Bissell and John Bissell
The Imagination in exile, Tom Bissell, Donna Hemans, and Josip Novakovich
Race, gender, and the transformation of American politics, Farai Chideya, Susan Faludi, and Katha Pollitt
Women in politics, Farai Chideya and Katha Pollitt
Our metropolis, Carol C. Harter
KNPR interview, Donna Hemans
Black Mountain Institute authors, Donna Hemans, Tom Bissell, and Josip Novakovich
Warring perspectives, Elias Khoury and A. B. Yehoshua
KNPR interview, William Kittridge
KNPR interview, Luljeta Lleshanaku
April Fool's Day, Josip Novakovich
My Sister, My Love, Joyce Carol Oates
Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions, Mary Palevsky
This is Not Civilization, Robert Rosenberg
Conversation with faculty and students, Charles Simic
Reading of selected poetry, Charles Simic
Submissions from 2007
From apartheid to Darfur: Africa's struggle against disdain, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chris Abani, Chenjerai Hove, Alexandra Fuller, and Wole Soyinka
Black Mountain Institute, Carol C. Harter
The Vietnam War in light of Iraq, Tim O'Brien, Robert Stone, Charles Herring, Jim Castellanos, Vu Tran, and John H. Irsfeld
KNPR interview, Glenn Schaeffer
The (Failed?) state of American politics, Dina Titus, Aaron Brown, Ryan Lizza, and George Packer
A Reading of selected poems, Derek Walcott
A Reading from Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show, Richard Wiley
Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show, Richard Wiley
Submissions from 2006
Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean
The Challenges of leadership, Harriet Fulbright
African American Lives, Henry Louis Gates Jr
UNLV presidency, Carol C. Harter and David Ashley
Inaugural lecture, Toni Morrison
KNPR interview, Wole Soyinka
You Must Set Forth at Dawn, Wole Soyinka