Alan
Lightman presents "The Diagnosis" Is our compulsion for speed, information, and money affecting our sense of intimacy and relationships? Alan Lightman gives his diagnosis on society.
Alan Lightman is a dual professor of science and humanities at MIT. Also a featured author in this year's Bonding Through Books selection, This I Believe, Lightman examines our society and explores how the relentless pace of modern life affects us and our concept of identity.
Alan Lightman will speak in Carter Hall in the University Center, on October 23, 2008 at 7 p.m. The Fall Lecture is open for anyone to attend.
About the Fall Lecture Series
Every fall the Office of Student
Development Programs, with assistance from the USI Foundation, sponsors the
Fall Lecture Series. The purpose of the Lecture Series is to bring
a speaker to campus that will be of interest to students and cause them
to challenge their beliefs.
2007 - Kevin Roberts - The Food Dude
2006 - Jeannette Walls -
The Glass Castle
Past speakers include the following:
2004 - Brent Scarpo - Journey to a Hate Free Millennium
2003 - Clifton Taulbert - Eight Habits of the Heart
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