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CHARTER LECTURE SERIES

The Charter Lecture Series, established in 1988, was named to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 Charter which founded the University of Georgia as the first chartered state university in the United States. A committee comprised of senior faculty members selects speakers of the first rank for the series. Charter Lecturers are speakers who, though situated within their academic fields, can reach out to the whole University community and to the public beyond with ideas of general importance for a free society. In addition to presenting the lecture, Charter Lecturers interact in various ways with interested students and faculty, normally remaining for two days so as to become acquainted with the University in informal as well as formal settings. The committee welcomes input for future lectures.

2003-2004 Lecture Series
                                                                                          
Hanna H. Gray                                                                                                                  Nov. 13, 2003
   President Emeritus and Harry Pratt Judson  
   Distinguished Service Professor of History, Emeritus
   University of Chicago
      TITLE: History: Studying the Unpredictable Past

Lawrence M. Friedman                                                                                                     Jan. 22, 2004
   Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law
   Stanford Law School
      TITLE: The One-Way Mirror: Law, Privacy, and the Media

David Sloan Wilson                                                                                                           March 2, 2004
   Professor of Biology and Anthropology
   Binghamton University
      TITLE: Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society

 

2003-2004 CHARTER LECTURES COMMITTEE

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