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WHEN: 3:30-4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31
WHERE: KU Visitor Center, 15th and Iowa streets. (Turn east onto 15th from Iowa Street and turn right on the first entrance, about halfway up the incline.) Parking is available in the lot in front of the center.
WHO: Alice Walker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Color Purple," will speak at just after 7 p.m. Thursday at the Lied Center as part of the Langston Hughes centennial celebration in Lawrence. Her topic is "Remembering Langston." KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway also will attend.
WHAT: In addition to taking questions from reporters, Walker may be photographed with a poster-size commemorative stamp of Langston Hughes that she and Hemenway will unveil in a special ceremony after the unveiling at the Lied Center. U.S. Postal Service Kansas City District Manager Ormer Rogers Jr. and Lawrence Postmaster Bill Reynolds will preside at the unveiling.
Walker wrote a biography of Hughes titled "Langston Hughes: American Poet." She will read Hughes' poetry and other writings and will comment on his work as well as his influence on her own writing.
Her appearance is part of the "Langston Hughes: Let America Be America Again" international symposium on the art, life and legacy of Hughes, who was born Feb. 1, 1902, in Joplin, Mo., and spent his early childhood years in Lawrence. He died in 1967 in New York City.
KU's Office of the Chancellor and the Hall Center for the Humanities are sponsoring Walker's appearance.
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