Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will headline Guilford College’s 2011-12 Bryan Series, which will include five programs.
Blair, who speaks Oct. 4, will open a series that includes talks by choreographer Twyla Tharp Oct. 27, CNN senior medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta Nov. 29, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns March 27 and journalist Fareed Zakaria April 10. Blair will speak in the Greensboro Coliseum arena and the other programs will be in War Memorial Auditorium.
Blair currently serves as the Quartet Representative to the Middle East on behalf of the United States, United Nations, Russia and the European Union.
Tharp has choreographed more than 135 dances and five Hollywood movies.
Gupta is chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. He has covered some of the era’s biggest stories: the attacks of 9/11, the 2004 tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti with CNN.
Burns’s documentaries have won seven Emmy Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Zakaria is a leading authority on international affairs, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, TIME’s editor-at-large and a columnist for The Washington Post.
More information is available at www.guilford.edu.