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University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Thinking about Reparations
November 2, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
On November 2, 2022, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’s Great Works Academic Certificate Program will host JMC faculty partner Andrew Delbanco for a virtual lecture on reparations.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 • 4:00 PM PDT
A virtual lecture • University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Free and open to the public.
Those interested in attending should email Professor John Hay at john.hay@unlv.edu to register for the event.
Andrew Delbanco is a the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University where he has been honored with the Great Teacher Award by the Society of Columbia Graduates. He is a respected scholar of American literature from the colonial period through the nineteenth century, religion, and the history of education. In addition to The War Before the War, Professor Delbanco has authored several other books, including College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be (2012) and Melville: His World and Work (2005). His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books and other journals, on topics ranging from American literary and religious history to contemporary issues in higher education. In 2001, he was named by Time Magazine as “America’s Best Social Critic” and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Delbanco also received the National Humanities Medal in 2012 for his writings on higher education and the place classic authors hold in history and contemporary life.
Professor Delbanco is a Jack Miller Center faculty partner.
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The Great Works Academic Certificate Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas provides students with an opportunity to take part in a conversation with some of the best thinkers of all time. The study of great works in philosophy, politics, literature, sciences, religion, and the fine arts encourages critical thinking. Such study confronts what it means to be human and thus immeasurably enhances a person’s daily life. The program also gives students who want to pursue graduate education early experience in grappling with original works of theory and literature such as they will inevitably encounter in graduate school.
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