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The E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues began its fourteenth year as Nebraska's premier lecture
series with paleoanthropologist and zoologist Meave Leakey on
'The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors' on the
afternoon of September 24, 2001 in the Lied Center for Performing
Arts.
Thompson
Forum Home
2001-2002
Schedule
free and open to the public; all events in Lied
Center for Performing Arts, 12th & R Streets,
Lincoln, NE, except Terrorism Panel, in Kimball
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Andrew Nathan
"Is It Any of Our Business?"
Thursday, April 11, 3:30pm
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Russia: Retrospect and Prospect"
Thursday, March 14, 10:30am
Anna Rosmus
"Growing Up Where Hitler Lived"
Thursday, March 7, 3:30pm
Terrorism Panel
Featuring United States Senator Chuck Hagel, with
Thomas Gouttiere, Steven Hinrichs, Patrice McMahon
and Peter Tomsen
Friday, Nov. 2, 2-4pm
Meave Leakey
"The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors"
Monday, Sept. 24, 3:30pm
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In the past century, the Leakey family
name has become synonymous with major discoveries in the study
of early humans. Meave Leakey continues to build on her family’s
legacy with her discovery in 1999 of a 3.5 million-year-old
skull believed to belong to a new branch of the early human
family. Also, in 1994, she discovered a new species of hominid,
Australopithecus anamensis, that began to walk upright at least
4 million years ago, half a million years earlier than was previously
thought possible for early humans.
For more than 70 years, the Leakeys—including Meave
Leakey’s husband, Richard, and his parents, Louis and Mary
Leakey—have been digging in Africa, uncovering fossilized
clues to the origins of our earliest ancestors. She is currently
head of the paleontology division at the National Museums of
Kenya and has written more than 50 scientific articles and books
about her work. A cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation
and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the E.N. Thompson Forum
on World Issues began in 1988 as the Cooper-UNL Forum on World
Issues, with a mission of promoting better understanding of
world events and issues by Nebraskans. In 1990, the name of
the series was changed in honor of E.N. 'Jack' Thompson, a 1933
graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and chairman
of the Cooper Foundation.
Leakey is head of the Paleontology Division at the National
Museums of Kenya.
More About Dr. Meave Leakey >
In its fourteen-year history, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues has established itself as one of the preeminent speakers
series in higher education. Past Thompson Forum events have
featured, among many others: Holocaust survivor and peace activist
Elie Weisel; Camelia Sadat, the daughter of Anwar Sadat and founder
of the Sadat Peace Institute; Maki Mandela, daughter of the
former South African president; the Rev. Peter Gomes, Plummer
Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University; Hedrick
Smith, journalist and expert on the former Soviet Union; Kennedy
Administration Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara; and Archbishop
Desmond Tutu.
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