Wednesday, July 28, 2010

2nd Annual Meeting and Speaker Event

Dear Nevada Princetonian!

In just 10 days, we will be having our 2nd Annual Association Meeting and Speaker Event in Reno!

So far, quite a few of you have already indicated you will be attending. Your PAAN officers, Matt Mullin '01 (ASC Chair), Greg Duncan '84 (Technology Chair), Tim Lyons '94 (Secretary) and I will all be there! Three of us are flying up from Las Vegas and are looking forward to a cooler day!

We have extended the invitation to include local Harvard and Yale alumni as well - several of whom will be attending!


Event details:

Guest Speaker: Professor Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University Department of Anthropology
Date and Time: Saturday, August 7th from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: The Home of John and Carol Ann Badwick p'11, p'13, Reno, NV


Here is a brief "bio" of our guest speaker:

Lawrence Rosen’s interest in anthropology developed while he was an undergraduate at Brandeis University, and during his junior year at the University of London. Initially, he wanted to do fieldwork for his Ph.D. in Indonesia, but after civil war broke out there he
transferred his project to Morocco, completing his degree at the University of Chicago in 1968.

He was immediately offered a job at Princeton but turned it down and spent the next three years on postdoctoral fellowships, including one at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He had always been interested in socio-legal problems, and decided to return for a law degree at Chicago (“a very primitive society, indeed!”). While in law school he developed his interests in the legal problems of Native Americans, and from time to time over the years has done pro bono work for a variety of Indian groups.

After three years on the faculty at Duke University he came to Princeton in 1977. Since that time he has also held an appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and has been a visiting professor at the law schools of Georgetown, Northwestern, and the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1981, he was named to the first group of recipients of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award. He has been a fellow of colleges at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He served as chair of his department at Princeton for eleven years; he has also served as chair of the University’s Judicial Committee, as a member of the Priorities [Budget] Committee, and on the panel that helped plan the Frist Campus Center. At Princeton he has also been awarded the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award and has been honored by the Ombudsman’s Office and several university women’s organizations. The author of seven books on North African society, Islamic law, American law, and the culture of Islam he is currently at work on a study of memory in Morocco. His newest book, Varieties of Muslim Experience, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2008.


It is definitely not too late to RSVP and come join fellow alumni and their guests for an afternoon of merriment and fascinating discussion!

See you soon.

Nick

Nick Donath '83
President