Open VISIONS Forum
The Quick Center for the Art is home to the Open VISIONS Forum, a public outreach program of the University College engaging the 'life of the mind' with the Connecticut community. Its Mission is to integrate the academic perspective of the University's students and faculty with the wide general interests of our regional audience. Through an ongoing series of lively and informative lectures, these 'public conversations' present eminent opinion-makers, artists, authors, learned contributors to the humanities and sciences and civic and political commentators to engage the audience with topical issues facing a global and national agenda.
The 2007-2008 season is highlighted by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough and prize-winning NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Past guest speakers have included former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto; documentary filmmaker Ken Burns; Forbes CEO and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke; United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky; Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim; and former hostage and author Terry Waite; and Emmy-winning broadcast journalist Bill O'Reilly.
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