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Salman Rushdie
Step Across This Line |
Noted Author Salman Rushdie Discusses Controversial Religious, Cultural, And Political Views in Free Lecture at Adelphi University
Garden City, NY
October 2003
World-renowned author Salman Rushdie will offer a free public lecture at Adelphi University on October 27, 2003 at 7:00 PM in the school's Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, as part of the University's Fall Cultural Program. The lecture, "Step Across This Line—An Evening with Salman Rushdie," is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. This dynamic lecture is sponsored by the University's International Initiatives Committee.
Rushdie is best known as the author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. In 1989, in a response to Rushdie's criticism of fundamentalist Islam in The Satanic Verses, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning Rushdie to death. The fatwa was lifted in 1998. His latest book, Step Across This Line, is a collection of his essays, speeches, and opinion pieces since 1992 and is named after a series of lectures he gave at Yale University in February 2002. Step Across This Line centers on themes of religion, culture, and politics in an age of rapid modernization.
In both his fiction and non-fiction, Rushdie uses his upbringing and personal history to make statements about life. He has been a guest lecturer at Yale, Harvard, and Oxford and he is an honorary professor of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Salman Rushdie graduated from Cambridge University, and lives in London and New York.
Adelphi's International Initiatives Committee (IIC) is a campus-wide group of faculty, administrators, and students charged with infusing courses and campus events with internationalized content. Through the IIC, the University offers dynamic programs so students, faculty, and the public have the opportunity to hear first-hand, global perspectives on issues of international concern.
While free and open to the public, tickets will be required. Free tickets, available on a first-come, first-served basis, must be picked up in advance at the PantherTainment booth located on the ground floor of the Ruth S. Harley University Center. For more information about tickets, please call 516.877.3616; information about this event is also available at http://events.adelphi.edu/
About Adelphi University: Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for the liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs—The College of Arts and Sciences, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Honors College, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, and the Schools of Business, Nursing, and Social Work—the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls nearly 8,500 students from 41 states and 63 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation and active citizenship.
Media Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Lori Duggan Gold
Executive Director of
External Relations and
Assistant to the President
p - 516.877.3693
f - 516.877.3266
e - duggangold@adelphi.edu
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Bonnie Eissner
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p - 516.877.3697
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