Lecture by noted professor asks, “Is Earth Our True Home?”
On Wednesday, Jan. 28 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum, noted professor Peter Lawler will present a lecture entitled, “Is Earth Our True Home? On Walker Percy, Carl Sagan, & ‘Interstellar.’” This event is free and open to the public.
On Wednesday, Jan. 28 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum, noted professor Peter Lawler will present a lecture entitled, “Is Earth Our True Home? On Walker Percy, Carl Sagan, & ‘Interstellar.’” This event is free and open to the public.
Lawler is the Dana Professor of Government at Berry College in Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including “Postmodernism Rightly Understood” and, most recently, for which he was named a Georgia Author of the Year, “Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future.”
Lawler is also the author of the blog, “Rightly Understood,” on BigThink.com and contributes regularly to other blogs, including “Postmodern Conservative.”
He is executive editor of the quarterly journal, “Perspectives in Political Science,” and serves as the co-director of the Stuck with Virtue conference series. From 2004 to 2009, Lawler served on the President’s Council on Bioethics. In 2007, Lawler was awarded the Weaver Prize in Scholarly Letters.
This event is sponsored by Ethical Inquiry at Carleton (EthIC). The Gould Library is located off College Street on the Carleton campus, and is also accessible via Highway 19 in Northfield. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4117.