Oct. 22, Thursday -- Award-winning author and educator Andrew Delbanco will open this year鈥檚 Public Intellectuals Forum with a talk to begin at 5:30 p.m. at Bistro 33, 226 F St., in downtown Davis.
Delbanco, Levi Professor in the Humanities and director of American studies at Columbia University, is a leading national commentator on the values and politics of higher education. In his talk entitled 鈥淓nough Already: Why Are the Humanities Always in Crisis?鈥 he is expected to engage hard questions about the economic crisis facing many universities and what it may mean for humanities programs.
The forum will be moderated by Eric Rauchway, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis history professor, and director of the Center for History, Society and Culture; and Carolyn de la Pe帽a, professor of American studies and director of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Humanities Institute. A reception will follow at 7:30 p.m. The forum is free and open to the public.
Links to advance readings are available at . For more information, contact DHI Associate Director Jennifer Langdon at jlangdon@ucdavis.edu.
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