October 18, 2001

Jared Diamond's Visit To WKU Rescheduled For February

Bowling Green, Ky. - A visit to Western Kentucky University by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond has been rescheduled for Feb. 5, 2002.

Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," had been scheduled to visit Bowling Green this month as part of WKU's Cultural Enhancement Series. Recent events, however, have forced Diamond to change his travel plans.

He'll speak in Van Meter Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5. In his presentation, Diamond explains the broad pattern of human history on all continents for the past 13,000 years.

The other events in the Cultural Enhancement Series are:

Taylor 2 dance company, 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at Van Meter Auditorium.
Doc Watson and Jack Lawrence, performing traditional Appalachian music with bluegrass, country, gospel and blues, 8 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at Van Meter Auditorium.

All events are free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Jeff Younglove at (270) 745-2497. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.