Sunday Scholars Series
September 25, 2011
Following the performance (approximately 4 p.m.)
- A free one-hour, post-show panel discussion
with experts on the themes and issues of the play
You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive and enter the theater after the performance ends.
The A Walk in the Woods Sunday Scholars discussion will be moderated by Danny Postel. Mr. Postel is the Editor of The Common Review, the magazine of the Great Books Foundation. He is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism (2006) and the co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011). Formerly a Senior Editor of openDemocracy, a London-based online magazine of global politics and ideas, and a former staff writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, his work has appeared in The American Prospect, the Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation, the New Humanist, and the Washington Post Book World, among other publications.
The discussion will feature:
Pat Callahan
Pat Callahan has been a member of the political science faculty at
DePaul University since 1975. His area of research and teaching is international relations, with special focus on American foreign policy and international ethics. He is the author of The Logics of American Foreign Policy (2004). He was educated at Northern Illinois University and Ohio State. He lives in Aurora with his wife Joanne and is the father of two grown daughters and grandfather of two grandchildren.
John O’Leary
John O'Leary is a retired Foreign Service Officer who now teaches foreign policy and international relations at Loyola University. Born, raised and educated in Chicago, he joined the diplomatic service in 1977 and served in the Congo, India, Pakistan, Germany, Haiti, Cameroon, Sweden, Mali, Rwanda, Chad and Kenya. He also served in Washington as a foreign affairs political analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He finished his career as Chargé d'Affaires in both Mali and Rwanda. While in the Service, he also served on the Boards of Directors for the international schools in Frankfurt, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Following his retirement, he served as a volunteer member of the Charleston, S.C., Police Department's Homicide Cold Case Committee before joining Loyola. He is married to the former Helen D'Souza of Goa, India and has two grown children, Brendan and Megan.
John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer the author of the recently published book
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. His other published books are Conventional Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award; Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988); The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), which won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), which made The New York Times best-seller list and has been translated into 19 languages. He has also written many articles that have appeared in academic journals like International Security, and popular magazines like the London Review of Books. He has written a number of op-ed pieces for The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times dealing with topics like Bosnia, nuclear proliferation, American policy toward India, the failure of Arab-Israeli peace efforts, and the folly of invading Iraq. Mearsheimer has won a number of teaching awards, including the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching when he was a graduate student at Cornell in 1977 and the Quantrell Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Chicago in 1985. In addition, he was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 1993-1994 academic year. In that capacity, he gave a series of talks at eight colleges and universities. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A Conversation with Lee Blessing
Sunday, October 2 , 2011
Immediately following the matinee performance of A Walk in the Woods
(starting at approximately 4 p.m.)
For tickets to the performance and discussion, click here ...
OR — You do not need to attend the performance to attend the discussion. Please call (773) 281-8463 x6 or email boxoffice@timelinetheatre.com to request a reservation for the discussion only. Space is limited.
Join Artistic Director PJ Powers and A Walk in the Woods playwright Lee Blessing for an in-depth one-hour conversation following the Sunday, October 2 at 2 p.m. performance of A Walk in the Woods. Nominated for a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, A Walk in the Woods is perhaps Mr. Blessing’s best-known play from an extensive body of work that also includes Eleemosynary, A Body of Water, Going to St. Ives and Two Rooms. Hear his thoughts on TimeLine’s gender-bending production of the play and join the discussion about how the topics and themes raised in A Walk in the Woods resonate today.
Also joining the conversation will be A Walk in the Woods director Nick Bowling and actors Janet Ulrich Brooks and David Parkes.
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Playwright Lee Blessing |
Lee Blessing is the writer of the plays A WALK IN THE WOODS (Pulitzer Prize and Tony and Olivier award nominations, American Theater Critics Association Award), GOING TO ST. IVES (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), THIEF RIVER (Drama Desk Award nomination), COBB, CHESAPEAKE, ELEEMOSYNARY, WHEN WE GO UPON THE SEA and DOWN THE ROAD. He was the featured playwright of Signature Theatre's 1992-93 season, which included his plays FORTINBRAS, LAKE STREET EXTENSION, TWO ROOMS and the world premiere of PATIENT A. Recent premieres include GREAT FALLS (2008 Humana New Play Festival); A BODY OF WATER (Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Award, Guthrie Theater and Old Globe Theatre) and LONESOME HOLLOW (Contemporary American Theatre Festival). Oregon's Profile Theatre devoted its 2010-11 season to Blessing's plays. Other plays have premiered at Yale Repertory, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Old Globe, Alliance and Seattle's A Contemporary Theater, among others. Blessing's television credits include TNT's COOPERSTOWN (Humanitas Award). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim, Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations. He heads the graduate playwriting program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles with his wife, playwright and writer/producer Melanie Marnich.
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