Emory University News Release - life_of_the_mind

Release date: updated Jan. 8, 2008
Contact: Beverly Cox Clark at 404-712-8780 or beverly.clark@emory.edu

Emory Faculty Featured in 'Life of the Mind' Lectures

Emory University presents "Life of the Mind," a lunchtime lecture series that showcases one of Emory's leading faculty members each month.

Philosophy professor Thomas Flynn will present the lecture “Whatever Happened to Humanism (Secular or Sacred)?” on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 12:30 p.m. in the Jones Room of Woodruff Library. Visitor parking is available in the Fishburne deck, 1672 N. Decatur Road. For more information, call 404-727-6055.

The series will continue Feb. 6 with law professor Martha Fineman, a leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence, who will speak on “Reconciling Equality with the Inevitable Vulnerabilities of the Human Condition.” Additional lectures by Carol Newsom, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament, and Dennis Choi, a neuroscientist renowned for his groundbreaking research on brain and spinal cord injury, are scheduled for March and April.

Framed in a way that non-specialists can understand, "the 'Life of the Mind' lectures will span the totality of what happens intellectually at Emory," said Santa Ono, vice provost for academic initiatives and deputy to the provost. The free lectures will include time for discussion.

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