Humanities center plans a busy year

The Center for the Humanities will feature six prominent speakers in its 2002-03 Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series. The center also will present panels on “Women and Science” and “Rembrandt and the Jews.”

From April 7-13, the center will sponsor lectures, performances and events commemorating the centennial of “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois.

The Humanities Without Boundaries Lectures include the following speakers:

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, “Lincoln: The Great Emancipator?” Thursday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m, Great Hall, Memorial Union.

Houston Baker, Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Professor of English at Duke University, “Remembering Race: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Betrayal of Black Intellectuals,” Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Tripp Commons, Memorial Union.

Amy Gutmann, provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, “Identity Group Politics in Democracy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Thursday, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., Tripp Commons.

Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton, “Virtues of Admiration: Aesthetics, Art and the Rest of Life,” Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., Tripp Commons.

Danielle Allen, associate professor in classical languages and literatures, political science, the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago, “Talking to Strangers: On Citizenship and Trust,” Thursday, May 8, 7:30 p.m., Tripp Commons.

Marjorie Garber, professor of English and director the Humanities Center at Harvard University, will give a lecture at a date to be determined, as will Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago.

The panel “Women and Science” will be Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym. Another panel Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., L160 Elvehjem Museum of Art, will discuss “Rembrandt and the Jews.”

More information: 263-3409.