On Friday, 7 September 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
The Use and Abuse of Gustavus Vassa; Or, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano on Its Own Terms
The lecture is free and open to the public.
On Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving a Lunchtime Lecture at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center (450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr). My topic will be:
The True Value of Money:
Retail Investing as a Gateway to Wisdom
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On Friday, 5 January 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
Flaunting It:
The Logic of “Conspicuous Consumption” in
Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Friday, 1 September 2017 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
The Content of Our Character:
Lessons from Gibbon’s
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Volume One
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Thursday, 23 March 2017 7:00–8:15 pm, I will be giving a lecture and facilitating a discussion as part of a Discussion Series at Kibbitznest (2212 N. Clybourn Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60614), a new partner of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago. My topic will be:
“A Rich Man Who Dies Rich Dies in Disgrace”: Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth”
The event is open to the public. Registration information is available from Kibbitznest.
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On Friday, 6 January 2017 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
Epic of Id, Epic of Superego:
A Freudian Reading of
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Thursday, 17 November 2016, I will be giving a short lecture on the history of the Basic Program as part of the Basic Program 70th Anniversary Celebration at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center (450 N Cityfront Plaza Drive).
My topic will be:
Only in Chicago, Only at the University of Chicago:
The Basic Program at 70
The lecture is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
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On Friday, 2 September 2016 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
Group Therapy with Great Books:
On the Remaking of Adults through
Lifelong Liberal Re-Education
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Thursday, 31 March 2016 2:30–3:30 pm, I will be speaking at the Center for Life and Learning at the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago (126 E. Chestnut St., just off North Michigan Avenue). My topic will be:
“The Holy Trible”: The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur’an as an Abrahamic Trilogy
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On Friday, 6 November 2015 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
“The Great Conversation” at Chicago:
The First 125 Years
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