Page-Barbour and James W. Richard Lectures
Coming in Spring 2010
Robert B. Pippin
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago.
Fatalism in Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy
Monday April 5th:Trapped by Oneself in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past
Tuesday April 6th:
‘A Deliberate, Intentional Fool’ in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai
Wednesday April 7th:
Sexual Agency in Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street
To listen to William Labov's Fall 2009 lectures , please see the podcasts on iTunesU.
Upcoming Lectures
About the Lectures
The Page-Barbour Lectures were founded in 1907 by Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page. The lectures, which may be in any field in the arts and sciences, are to present "some fresh aspect or aspects of the department of thought" in which the lecturer is a specialist, and are to possess such unity as to be published in book form by the University.
Past Page-Barbour Lecturers include President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft; poets T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden; philosophers Walter Lippman and John Dewey; and psychologists B.F. Skinner and Robert Coles.
Recent Page-Barbour Lectures include philosopher Richard Rorty, physicist Freeman Dyson, and anthropologist Maurice Godelier.
The James W. Richard Lectures are funded by an endowment established by the will of Este Coffinberry, probated in 1923. The will specifies that one lecture is to be in religion and another in history, especially comparative history. It also provides that the lectures are to be such that the University might publish them as a book.
Past James W. Richard Lecturers include theologians and philosophers Etienne Gilson, Paul Tillich, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Thomas Torrance, Nicholas Lash, and Langdon Gilkey; and historians Jaroslav Pelikan, Jacob Neusner, and Edmund Morgan.
Recent James W. Richard Lecturers include philosopher Stephen Mulhall, political theorist Quentin Skinner, historian Lynn Hunt, and religious studies scholar David Schulman.
Contacts
For more information, contact Walter Jost , Lectures Committee Chair or Kristina Meshelski, Assistant to the Page-Barbour and Richard Lectures Committee.