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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.
September 2, 2011
Science Fiction: The Art of ‘What if . . . ?’
Keith Cleveland, Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
October 7, 2011
The Halo of a Vale of Tears: On Mysticism, Reason, and Prophetic Pragmatism
Steven Schroeder, Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
November 4, 2011
Sense and Sensibility in the Age of Technology: Will Jane Austen Survive?
Elisabeth Lenckos, Instructor, Basic Program, the University of Chicago
December 2, 2011
On Time, Memory, and Eternity: Reflections from Proust, In Tribute to Basic Program instructor Joel Rich
Cynthia Rutz et al, Basic Program Instructors, 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, October 9, 2011
The Trial of Galileo
Rocky Kolb
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College, the University of Chicago; Member, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Sunday, November 13, 2011 (Please note: this lecture will be held in the fifth floor southwest lecture hall.)
The Anastaplo Lecture
Plutarch’s Lives: On The Decline, Fall, and Attempted Restoration of Republics
Leo Paul S. de Alvarez
Professor, Politics Department, the University of Dallas
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Theme and Variation: The Imaginative Impulse and the Conceiving Mind in Poetry and Science
Fredric Coe, MD
Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Kidney Stone Prevention Program, and Director, Clinical Research Training Program, the University of Chicago Medical Center
