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...Kirkland??s Resident Scholar, Peter V. Emerson, the mastermind behind “Conversations with Kirkland,” is perhaps the only individual on Harvard’s campus lucky enough to meet Rosanne Cash at the Albuquerque airport, bump into Lewis Black on a train to Washington, chat up Sam Waterston at an event in New York, and convince the President of Zambia to take a Boston Duck Tour. For the past seven years, Emerson has combined similarly serendipitous celebrity encounters with his natural charm and brought a wide array of interesting and diverse speakers...
...intimate and informal setting that Emerson’s “Conversations with Kirkland?? seeks to maintain distinguishes the events from many similar Harvard happenings. “Students get more engaged. They feel like they have some kind of impact on the event, rather than just listening to someone talking to them,” explains Loren Amor ’10, a former Crimson sports chair who became involved with the series during his sophomore year. “They are able to steer the discussion in a way that is interesting to them...
...trying to think, ‘What could I do based on my experience and who I know to give to the student community?’” Emerson says. “I came up with this idea—’Conversations with Kirkland??—which would bring in distinguished and accomplished people from politics, arts, the media, and business for students to have truly an informal conversation...
Before making an appearance, each speaker in the “Conversations with Kirkland?? series is asked about his or her interests; Emerson arranges a meeting with a Harvard faculty member in that field as a partial compensation for the speaker’s time. Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s daughter, spoke fondly of the experience of meeting her favorite all-star professor. “I had a private meeting with Dr. Lisa Randall and asked her all the questions about theoretical physics I have been storing up for years,” she says...
...Kirkland??s got a great multi-stage formal lined up. Start off at a BBQ in the courtyard, launch the evening at a cocktail reception in the JCR, and fly high at The Estate downtown. That club was a big hit last year during Quincy’s formal, so this should be entertaining—but with Kirkland??s notorious penchant for dormcest, well, prepare for trouble...