Hello, everyone.
How are you?
Good?
Welcome.
What a beautiful night in Tucson.
Thanks for choosing to be here on this beautiful night
in Tucson.
Glad you're here for all that will happen this evening.
And thanks for choosing to be in this place.
Thanks for waving in the back, back there.
Can you guys hear me OK back there?
Good.
All right.
Good.
All those thumbs up.
That's my favorite parts of readings.
Can you hear me OK?
And everyone goes like this.
We're all going to get a ride.
So before we get going, to help give some more
context for tonight's event as part of the Tucson Humanities
Festival, I'm going to welcome up
A-P Durand, the Dean of the College of Humanities.
And he's going to say a few words to us.
A-P?