First Friday Lectures – Spring/Summer 2010
December 16, 2009 by admin
Filed under Basic Program
Free and Open to All
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These lectures are offered on the first Friday of every month except July. Lectures take place in the Claudia Cassidy Theater of the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street). The lectures begin at 12:15 pm and last about one hour.
March 5
Tolstoy in Love: The Meta-Plot of Anna Karenina
Katia Mitova
Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
April 2
The Epistle of Jude and the Jewishness of Christianity
George Anastaplo
Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
May 7
Image & Invitation in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Claudia Traudt
Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
June 4
The Tragedy of Athens: Thucydides on Democratic Imperialism
Joe Alulis
Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
August 6
The Idea of Socrates: Socratic Dialogues Not by Plato
Zoe Eisenman
Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
September 3
Living Well in Hard Times; Or, Why Liberal Education is Not a Luxury
Adam Rose
Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
