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Riz Khan reported world news as a Senior News Anchor for CNN-International, based in Atlanta. He enjoyed hosting the flagship shows for the network, "Q&A with Riz Khan" and "Q&A-Asia with Riz Khan". These interactive shows put world newsmakers and celebrities up for viewer questions live by phone, e-mail, video-mail and fax, along with questions and comments taken from the real-time chatroom that opens half-an-hour before each show.
Shmuel Rosner is Haaretz's chief U.S. correspondent, and is based in Washington. In the years 1996-2005 Rosner was a senior editor for Haaretz, and held the position of Head of the News Division for 5 years (2000-‘05). A long-time American history buff, Rosner has written numerous pieces about U.S. policy and politics, and traveled across the United States. He has been a frequent guest on Israeli and American institutions, speaking in Universities, Think Tanks, and to groups of officials from the State Department and the U.S military. Apart from reporting for Haaretz and writing his daily blog (www.rosnersdomain.com) Rosner is also a frequent contributor to the American magazine Slate.
Kyle Gann, born 1955 in Dallas, Texas, is a composer and was new-music critic for the Village Voice from 1986 to 2005. Since 1997 he has taught music history and theory at Bard College. He is the author of The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (Cambridge University Press, 1995), American Music in the 20th Century (Schirmer Books, 1997), and Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice (University of California Press, 2006). Gann studied composition with Ben Johnston, Morton Feldman, and Peter Gena, and his music is often microtonal, using up to 37 pitches per octave. His rhythmic language, based on differing successive and simultaneous tempos, was developed from his study of Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo Indian musics. His music has been performed on the New Music America, Bang on a Can, and Spoleto festivals. His major works include Sunken City, a piano concerto commissioned by the Orkest de Volharding in Amsterdam; Transcendental Sonnets, a 35-minute work for choir and orchestra commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; The Planets, commissioned by the Relache ensemble via Music in Motion and continued under a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists' Fellowship; and The Hudson River Trilogy, a trio of microtonal chamber operas written with librettist Jeffrey Sichel, the first of which, Cinderella's Bad Magic, was premiered in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In addition to Bard, Gann has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bucknell University. His writings include more than 2400 articles for more than 45 publications, including scholarly articles on La Monte Young (in Perspectives of New Music), Henry Cowell, Mikel Rouse, and other American composers. He writes the "American Composer" column for Chamber Music magazine, and he was awarded the Stagebill Award (1999) and Deems-Taylor Award (2003) for music criticism. His music is available on the New Albion, New World, Cold Blue, Lovely Music, New Tone, and Monroe Street labels. In 2003, the American Music Center awarded Gann its Letter of Distinction, along with Steve Reich, Wayne Shorter, and George Crumb.
Mark Moffett Mark Moffett's mission is to find stories that make people fall in love with the unexpected: insects, frogs, and other of nature's small wonders. One of only a handful of people to earn a PhD under the world's most famous ecologist, E. O. Wilson, Moffett has produced over two dozen articles for National Geographic magazine. An entertaining, irreverent presenter who uses humor to open peoples' eyes to the small wonders of the natural world, Moffett has made appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Colbert Report, but as a scientist is best known for his research on forest canopies and ant behavior. Currently Research Associate in Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution, Moffett is finishing his second book for Harvard University Press. Join this intrepid and eccentric ecologist as he shares the beauty and marvels of life in the treetops. This talk is part of Nature in Art: The 2008 John H. Ostrom Program Series.
Rachel Axler Rachel Axler is a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she received the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program, and a 2007 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nomination. As a playwright, Rachel has held fellowships at The Dramatists Guild and The Lark Play Development Center. Her newest play, SMUDGE, has had readings at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Magic Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center and The Playwrights Foundation. She wrote the screenplay for a short musical film, 11, produced by Raw Impressions. Humor pieces of hers have been published in The New York Times, the journal In Character (ed. Mark Oppenheimer), McSweeney's Internet Tendency and two editions of Monologues for Women, By Women, and can be found on bathroom walls across the country. She received her BA in Theatre and English from Williams College, and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Proud member, Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild.
John Pomfret Raised in New York City and educated at Stanford and Nanjing universities, John Pomfret is an award-winning journalist with The Washington Post. He has been a foreign correspondent for 15 years, covering big wars and small in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq, southwestern Turkey and northeastern Iran. Pomfret has spent seven years covering China – one in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests and then from 1998 until the end of 2003 as the bureau chief for The Washington Post in Beijing. Pomfret speaks, reads and writes Mandarin, having spent two years at Nanjing University in the early 1980s as part of one of the first groups of American students to study in China. He has been a bartender in Paris and practiced Judo in Japan. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborne Elliot Award for the best coverage of Asia by the Asia Society. In 2007, Pomfret was awarded the Shorenstein Award from Havard and Stanford universities for his lifetime coverage of Asia. He is married to a Chinese entrepreneur and has two children. “Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China” is his first book.
David Pogue David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. With 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 30 titles. David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.
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