Horning Lecture Series
HORNING LECTURE SERIES 2011/12 "AN ADVENTURE OF THE MIND"
This year’s Horning lecture series brings five scholars who work in the field of modern European intellectual history. The field of intellectual history includes all aspects of human thought since the 18th century, including the natural sciences, but it generally concentrates on the history of the social sciences and the humanities, as well as the history of ideology and meaning.
All lectures are at 4:00 p.m. in the Memorial Union Journey Room.
Tues., Oct. 11, 2011: “Context and ‘the Event’: The Challenge of French Theory to Historicism,” Martin Jay, UC Berkeley
Wed., Oct. 26, 2011: “The Birth of Modern Czech out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment,” David Luft, Oregon State
Mon., Mar. 5, 2012: “Karl Popper and the Liberal Imagination in Science and Politics,” Malachi Hocohen, Duke University
Thurs., Apr. 26, 2012: “Radical Enlightenment and the French Revolution,” Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Thurs., May 17, 2012: “Historicism and Empathy; or, Can We Learn Something from a Forgotten Orientalist?” Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State
HORNING LECTURE SERIES 2010/11 • THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES
Paleontology: Paul Sereno, University of Chicago, "Paleontology as Art," Monday, October 4, 2010, 7:00 p.m., LaSells Stewart Center, Austin Auditorium
Geology: Mott Greene, University of Puget Sound, "[Geo] History Fights Back from the Grave," Thursday, November 18, 2010, 4:00 p.m., Memorial Union, Room 109
Ecology: Eric Higgs, University of Victoria, and “History and Ecology” workshop, Thursday and Friday, February 3 and 4, 2011, Memorial Union, Journey Room
Evolutionary Biology: Stephen Stearns, Yale University, "Major Themes in Evolutionary Medicine," Thursday, May 5, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Memorial Union, Journey Room
Archaeology: Deborah Pearsall, University of Missouri, "Food and Society at Real Alto, a Prehistoric Community in SW Coastal Ecuador," Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Memorial Union, Journey Room
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