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DU presents Ronald Takaki in Mazzuchelli Lecture

Dominican University’s Siena Center will present Ronald Takaki, author of the critically acclaimed book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, in the annual Mazzuchelli Lecture on Wednesday, November 15. Takaki will deliver a lecture titled “America in a Different Mirror” at 5:00 p.m. in the Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Takaki’s lecture will offer a comparative approach to the study of the history of America’s diversity in light of recent debates on immigration and diversity in America. He will address questions about who is an “American” and what “America” stands for.

Takaki, the grandson of Japanese plantation laborers in Hawaii, received his doctoral degree in American history from the University of California-Berkley. After graduation, he was hired to teach a course on Black history at UCLA, the first such course in the history of the school. He later returned to Berkeley, where he currently serves as professor emeritus.

A well-respected international speaker, Takaki was invited in 1987 to present a paper in Armenia comparing race and ethnicity in the U.S. and U.S.S.R. In 1990, the Soviet Academy of Sciences invited him to Moscow to give a paper on the impact of the Cold War on racial and ethnic conflicts.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Siena Center at (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at www.siena.dom.edu.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 17 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2007 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the ninth consecutive year.