Artists and Speakers Lecture Series: Gregory Orfalea

A latecomer to the colonial scene, Junipero Serra brought a more complex mindset - tragic, troubling, inspiring - than is commonly understood to his relationship with the California Indian. Gregory Orfalea explains in the second of two lectures on Serra's life and times.

Orfalea is the author of eight books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir, the latest of which is a collection of short stories titled The Man Who Guarded the Bomb published in 2010 by Syracuse University Press. Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra and the Spanish Encounter with the California Indian will be released by Scribner next year. Orfalea has won several awards for his writing, including grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the California Arts Council, and has served as a judge for the American PEN Award in Research Nonfiction and the Arab American Book Award. He has taught writing at a number of universities including CLU.

Admission is free.