The University has released this year’s Assembly Series speakers, experts and entertainers from various fields that will speak to the student body and local community on a weekly basis.
Reflecting the political atmosphere of the season, the series will begin with Mo Rocca, an analyst on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with John Stewart.” Rocca also contributes to NBC’s “The Tonight Show” and to NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” He last appeared on campus in 2004.
Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer for the New Yorker, will be the next in line for the series. Kolbert wrote “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” this year’s book for the Freshman Reading Program, and will lecture on climate change.
Later in the semester, Peggy Orenstein, an expert on the experience of young women in the modern world, will speak. Orenstein is the author of several books, including “Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap” and “Waiting for Daisy.”
Also speaking in the series will be Washington University Economics Professor Steven Fazzari, neurologist Dr. Daniel Levitin, businessman and 2002 University alum Jay Swoboda, Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, dancer Liz Lerman, health policy historian Keith Wailoo and author and Holocaust researcher Daniel Mendelsohn.
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