Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked like Ernest Hemingway. Gruff, bearded, white, male. She was none of those. She was an immigrant, born in Seoul to a Korean mother and a white American father, and raised in Hawaii. But Keller's image of herself started to change in 1993, when she went to a symposium on human rights at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; there she heard an elderly Korean woman tell her true story of being a "comfort woman" during World War II, when she was one of the many foreigners forced by the Japanese into prostitution camps that serviced their soldiers...
...special two-day symposium beginning on May 5, Jeff Musselman '85 and Ellen Hart Pena '80 will return to their alma mater each bringing tales of lives sidetracked by alcoholism and eating disorders...
This will not be the first time that Musselman has returned to Harvard. In a similar 1993 symposium, the former Crimson pitcher addressed a group of students and coaches on his personal battle against alcohol as well as useful intervention skills. Rarely does Harvard have a former professional baseball player return--especially someone as outspoken and seasoned as Musselman...
Pena and Musselman will be the key speakers at the pre-symposium student session starting at 9 a.m. on May 5. Harvard students will then be able to attend two of nine 45 minute workshops...
...example, Hart pointed to a symposium for women athletes next month, which is being sponsored by the Department of Athletics...