In celebration of UCA’s 100th anniversary this year, each UCA college is bringing a distinguished speaker to campus as part of the Centennial Lecture Series.
UCA’s College of Liberal Arts will present one of the leading philosophers of our time, Dr. Martha Nussbaum, on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. at Ida Waldran Auditorium in Main Hall. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is also an associate in the Classics Department and Political Science Department. She is the author of thirteen books and she holds thirty-two honorary degrees from universities around the world. Her research and writing covers a broad range of subjects: philosophy and literature, ancient philosophy, liberal education, social and political issues and philosophy of law. Her book on liberal education, “Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Liberal Education,” is widely regarded as the primer on educating for global citizenship in a diverse world. It won the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1998, and the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002. Her most recent work, “Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America?s Tradition of Religious Equality,” will be published in February 2008.
The title of Nussbaum’s address at UCA is “The Assault on Liberal Education: Global Citizenship in an Era of Profit-Making.” A reception will follow her presentation in the Mirror Room in McAlister Hall.
The day after Nussbaum’s lecture, former UCA President Jefferson Farris Jr. will present the Centennial Lecture for UCA’s College of Health and Behavioral Sciences on Friday, Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus.
Farris was UCA’s sixth president and served from 1975 to 1986, when he became president of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. He earned a bachelor’s degree from UCA in 1950 and later served nine years as a UCA department chairman and six years as dean of UCA’s College of Fine and Applied Arts and Sciences. During his tenure as president of UCA, he opened the $3 million Center for Teaching and Human Development (known today as Mashburn Hall) and the $2 million Doyne Health Sciences Center.
