WHO: Journalist Seymour Hersh, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Formerly of The New York Times and now a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
TOPIC: Chain of Command: How We Got from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
WHAT: Mondavi Center Distinguished Speakers Series.
WHEN: 8 p.m. Oct. 17.
WHERE: Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
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WHO: Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, an account of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected a university professor and her seven female students as they studied The Great Gatsby, Lolita and other classics in the privacy of Nafisi's home while the world around them crumbled.
TOPIC: The Republic of the Imagination.
WHAT: Mondavi Center Distinguished Speakers Series.
WHEN: 8 p.m. Dec. 4
WHERE: Jackson Hall.
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ADMISSION: Tickets are required for all three of these events, and are available through the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or
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