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Western Illinois University President Emeritus and nationally known theatre educator Al Goldfarb will deliver the Spring 2016 Quad Cities Research and Scholarship Symposium's Last Lecture. Goldfarb's lecture, "The Greatest Influences on My Academic and Administrative Career," is set to start at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24 in the WIU-QC Riverfront Hall, room 103/104. A reception will follow the presentation.
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Goldfarb Last Lecture Rescheduled

February 23, 2016

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MOLINE, IL — The Spring 2016 Western Illinois University Quad Cities Research and Scholarship Symposium's Last Lecture presented by WIU President Emeritus and nationally known theatre educator Al Goldfarb has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 2 in room 103/104 at the WIU-QC campus.

The lecture was originally to be held Feb. 24; however, forecasted winter weather, the Feb. 24 lecture has been canceled.

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MOLINE, IL — Western Illinois University President Emeritus and nationally known theatre educator Al Goldfarb will deliver the Spring 2016 Quad Cities Research and Scholarship Symposium's Last Lecture. Goldfarb's lecture, "The Greatest Influences on My Academic and Administrative Career," is set to start at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24 in the WIU-QC Riverfront Hall, room 103/104. A reception will follow the presentation.

Goldfarb was named Western's president in 2002 and served through 2011, when he retired. A child of Holocaust survivors, Goldfarb is a board member and scholar who worked on the National Jewish Theatre Foundation's Holocaust Theatre Catalog. Prior to his time at WIU, Goldfarb served at Illinois State University as the chair of the theatre department, the dean of fine arts and as the provost and academic vice president.

According to the Holocaust Theatre Catalog website, throughout his distinguished administrative career, Goldfarb continued to teach and publish. He has published articles and reviews in leading journals. In addition to his textbooks, "Theatre: The Lively Art," "Living Theatre" and "An Anthology of Living Theatre"—which he co-authored and co-edited with Ed Wilson, retired theatre critic for the Wall Street Journal—Goldfarb also co-edited (with Rebecca Rovit), "Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust," a National Jewish Book Award finalist.

Goldfarb has received alumni awards from Hunter College of City University of New York (C.U.N.Y), the institution at which he earned his master's degree in theatre and cinema (1973), as well as from the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1978. His C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center thesis was entitled, "Theatre and Drama and the Nazi Concentration Camps." He earned his bachelor's degree from Queens College of C.U.N.Y. in theatre and mass communications in 1972.

Goldfarb has also served on the Illinois Arts Council and is a member of the Chicago-based Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee.

For more information, contact WIU-QC Director of Marketing Tami Seitz at (309) 762-9481 or via email at TS-Seitz@wiu.edu.

Posted By: Teresa Koltzenburg (WIUNews@wiu.edu)
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