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Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series

2009-2010 Events

FALL 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 7:00 pm
Edmund Muir
"People Who Believe in Nothing:" Intolerable Thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy"

Edmund Muir, is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University where he teaches in the Departments of History and Italian.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7:00 pm
Bill Savage
"Contra Burnham: Why We Need More Little Plans"

Bill Savage is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Northwestern University.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:00 pm
Barbara Newman
"Exchanging Hearts: Reflections from Patients, Mystics, and Poets"

Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7:00 pm
Peter Hayes
"The Holocaust: Myths and Misconceptions"

Peter Hayes is the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Department of History at Northwestern University.

Spring 2010

TBA

 

Venue for all lectures: Evanston Public Library, Community Meeting Room, 1703 Orrington Avenue, 847-448-8600 or www.epl.org     

        

Sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University and the Evanston Public Library.