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William Jewett Tucker lecture: Feb 16, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 4 pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Video - a DVD of the lecture may be borrowed from the Tucker Foundation or Jones Media Center.
Read the Dartmouth NOW interview with Louis Menand about his talk »
A staff writer for The New Yorker since 2001, Menand is also professor of English and American literature and language at Harvard, and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, City University of New York and the University of Virginia School of Law. This isn’t Menand’s first speaking engagement at Dartmouth. He spoke at the 2004 Dartmouth conference “The Liberal Education: Dead or Alive?”
Read more about the William Jewett Tucker lecture series and Louis Menand »
Louis Menand, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America, will deliver the annual Tucker Lecture, entitled: “Are the Great Books the Moral Heart of Liberal Education?” The Tucker lecture is intended to address the moral and spiritual life of Dartmouth students in support of the mission of the Tucker Foundation.
