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Humanities Lecture Series

2007-2008

Carol Ann Carter, Professor of Art, University of Kansas
"Art @ Work: Mapping Transformation"
April 24, 2008, Alderson Auditorium

Ian Buruma, 2008 winner of the Erasmus Prize
"Among the Unbelievers: Muslims in Europe"
April 2, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Paul Muldoon, poet and 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner
"The Eternity of the Poem"
February 27, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Sara Ahmed, Professor in Race & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
“The Promise of Happiness”
October 23, 2007, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union


2006-2007

Maria Carlson, Professor of Slavid Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
"Culture and History Matter: Russia's Search for Identity after the Fall"
April 10, 2007, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
“Making Sense of Moral Conflict”
March 1, 2007, Kansas Union Ballroom

Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
"Grooming Citizens: Marriage and Civic Status in U.S. History"
November 2, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
"The God Delusion"
October 16, 2006, Lied Center

Nuruddin Farah, author and winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
"The Fork in the Fork of the Road"
September 12, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Andrei Codrescu, MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English, Louisiana State University
"An Evening with Andrei Codrescu"
August 28, 2006, Lied Center Auditorium

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