ALA Cognotes Midwinter Meeting - January 2015 Preview - (Page 1)
JANUARY PREVIEW
Cognotes
ALA
2015 MIDWINTER MEETING
JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Reading Rainbow's
LeVar Burton to Highlight
Auditorium Speaker Series
Jason Segel Will Delight as
Saturday's Auditorium Speaker
W
ell known for his work
in television and film,
actor, comedian, and
screenwriter Jason Segel will
appear as Auditorium Speaker
on Saturday, January 31,
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Segel made
his debut as a children's book
author in 2014 with the first
installment of his middlegrade trilogy Nightmares!
(co-written by Kirsten Miller),
with the second in the series,
Nightmares: The Sleepwalker
Tonic due for publication in
September 2015. At its heart,
Nightmares! is about kids
overcoming their fears,
inspired in part by Segel's
own childhood struggle
with nightmares. "Ultimately, it's a story about
learning that we can accomplish anything, as long
as we are brave enough to
try. These are the types of
stories that always inspired
me," he said.
Segel will next star in
James Ponsoldt's dramatic
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Human Rights Activist, Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Named 2015 Arthur Curley Memorial Lecturer
W
hat happened to Islamic reform? Why
have al Qaeda and
Boko Haram become the faces
of contemporary Islam? Why
has the Arab Spring devolved
into a battle over sharia law?
Award-winning human rights
activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali believes that ordinary Muslims
throughout the world want
wholesale change - contrary
to conventional wisdom in the
West. As 2015 Arthur Curley
Memorial lecturer at the ALA
Midwinter Meeting, she will
speak about these and other
ideas on Saturday, January
31 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
In her forthcoming book
Heretic (March 2015), the
New York Times bestselling
author of Infidel and Nomad
crafts a powerful call for an Islamic Reformation as the only
way to end the current wave
of global violence and repres-
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for:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
sion of women. Courageously
engaging fundamentalists on
their own turf - religion itself
- she boldly calls for a Muslim
Reformation, identifying five
key amendments to Islamic
doctrine that must be made in
TRA
VEL
& HOUSING
order to break from seventhcentury traditions and fully
engage with the 21st century.
Hirsi Ali interweaves her
personal journey, historical
parallels, and powerful examples from contemporary
Islamic societies and cultures.
Hirsi Ali is also the author
of The Caged Virgin, in which
according to a Booklist review,
she " . . . challenges Western
culture and Islam to honestly
confront issues of religion
and individual freedom in
this compelling look at Islam
and gender politics." Born in
Somalia and raised Muslim,
Hirsi Ali grew up in Africa
and Saudi Arabia before fleeing to the Netherlands in
1992, where she went from
cleaning factories to winning
a seat in the Dutch Parliament. A prominent speaker,
debater, and op-ed writer,
» see page 4
P
assionate and lifelong
children's literacy advocate, actor, producer, director, and educator
LeVar Burton will offer an
unmissable treat for Midwinter Meeting attendees when
he appears as an Auditorium
Speaker on Sunday, February 1, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. For
three decades, Burton has
been capturing the admiring
attention of both audiences
and his industry peers. He
was host from 1983 - 2009 of
the beloved original "Reading
Rainbow" PBS series, is cofounder of the award-winning
"Reading Rainbow" digital
library, and is currently developing the next generation
of innovative children's educational media.
Burton has recently pub-
LeVar Burton
lished his first children's book,
The Rhino Who Swallowed a
Storm, a picture book written with poet Susan Schaefer
Bernardo and illustrated by
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