Faculty Symposiums
February 22, 2008: Dr. Donald N. Levine: "The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America." Dr. Levine, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and dean of the College at Chicago from 1982-1987, is the author of Powers of the Mind, The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America (U of Chicago P, 2006).
February 2, 2007: Dr. Lee T. Pearcy: "Is the liberal arts education in danger of becoming an irrelevant curiosity?
Dr. Pearcy is the author of The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (Baylor UP, 2005). He has taught a several institutions of higher education.
February 10, 2006: Dr. George Marsden: A discussion of Dr. Marsden's prize-winning book Jonathan Edwards, a Life (Yale UP, 2003)
Dr. Marsden teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History. His book was awarded the Bancroft Prize for best books in American history (2004), the Merle Curtis Award for the best book in American intellectual history (2004) and the Annibel Jenkins Prize for the best book-length biography of a late 17th- or early 18th-century subject (2002-2004).
February 25, 2005: Dr. Maria Rosa Menocal: "Culture and Tolerance Among Muslims, Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain"
Dr. Menocal teaches at Yale University where she is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center. She is the author of Ornament of the World, How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Little, Brown, 2002) and Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric (Duke UP, 1994).
Top of Page
January 24, 2003: Dr. Atul Gawande, M.D. A discussion of his book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Dr. Gawande, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, is a surgeon and a staff write on medicine and science for The New Yorker. His writing has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000.
October 17, 2003: Dr. Diana L. Eck Discussion of her book A New Religious America: How a 'Christian Country' Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation (Harper, 2001)
Dr. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University. Also the author of Darsen, Seeing the Divine Image in India (Columbia UP, 1998), she was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 1998 for her work dealing with The Pluralism Project, an investigation of America's religious diversity.
January 25, 2002: Dr. Nicholas D. Smith: "Plato's Apology and Crito" Dr. Smith is the James F. Miller Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He is the coauthor with Thomas Brickhouse of Socartes on Trial (Princeton UP, 1989) and Plato's Socrates (Oxford UP, 1994).
January 28, 2000: Dr. John Gaddis: "Writing Biographies" Dr. Gaddis, a former Ohio University professor, is now a professor at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Oxford UP, 2002).
Top of Page
