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FIRST FRIDAY LECTURE SERIES
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
WORKS OF THE MIND LECTURE SERIES
These lectures are offered on Sundays at 1 pm October through May at the Chicago Cultural Center in the 5th Floor SW lecture room and precede the Cultural Center’s afternoon Sunday Salon Series of free concerts.
Sunday, March 14
A Line, A Cave, and A Beautiful City in Plato’s Republic
Herman Sinaiko
Professor, Humanities, the College, the University of Chicago
Sunday, April 18
Princess of Kenwood Marries Prince of Hyde Park: Chretien de Troyes,
Courtly Love, and the Birth of the Novel
Peter Dembowski
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of French Literature, Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Committee on Medieval Studies, and the College, the University of
Chicago
Sunday, May 16
Egyptomania! James Henry Breasted and the Birth of American Egyptology
Emily Teeter
Research Associate and Special Exhibits Coordinator, The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago
