For more than 20 years, the series has provided a forum for new ideas and accomplishments in a wide range of fields and disciplines, and is supported with funds from the George A. Miller Endowment and co-sponsoring U. of I. units.
All talks are free and open to the public.
Kicking off the series on Sept. 14 will be Lana Rakow, professor in the School of Communications at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. This talk is also part of the Cyberarts lecture series co-sponsored by CAS and the Beckman Institute. Gustman is the executive director of technology for the Los Angeles-based Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a project conceived by film director Steven Spielberg to videotape interviews with Holocaust survivors throughout the world. Harre, who is the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and professor emeritus at Oxford University, also is a Miller Endowment Professor. Foundationalist Trends in Post-Post Modernism.