Bjorkluden Announces 2012 Summer Seminar Series

ABC News “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran, Vince Lombardi biographer David Maraniss and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Eric Simonson headline the list of featured instructors for Lawrence University’s 2012 Björklunden summer seminar series.

Moran, a journalist with nearly 30 years experience covering Washington, D.C., leads the seminar with “Running for Office: Stories from the Campaign Trail.” The course will explore the 2012 race for the White House from numerous perspectives, including how the media covers it, how candidates seek to manipulate the media, and how changing demographics influence electoral strategy.

Maraniss and Simonson will team-teach “The Art of Biography,” a seminar examining the challenge of turning research into biography and biography into drama. Maraniss, associate editor at the Washington Post and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and four other bestsellers. Simonson, a Tony and two-time Emmy Award nominee, won an Oscar in 2005 for his documentary on noted broadcaster Norman Corwin.

Other topics range from the nature of humankind and humor in classical music to digital photography and seminars on historic figures Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar and the biblical Samson. Well-known local naturalists Roy and Charlotte Lukes will lead a seminar on wildflowers and birds of Door County.

All seminars meet weekday mornings and some evenings.

Registration is underway for 38 weeklong, non-credit seminars beginning June 10. The seminars are conducted on Lawrence’s Björklunden, located just outside Baileys Harbor. For complete seminar information, including dates, course descriptions and instructors, visit http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/bjork/. For additional information call 920.839.2216 or email [email protected].