The Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College will present a free public lecture on Thursday, Sept. 18, by Dr. Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. The Rhodes event begins at 6 p.m. in McNeill Concert Hall.
Allen’s many books include the widely acclaimed Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality; The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens; Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education; Why Plato Wrote; Education and Equality; Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.; Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus; and, most recently, Justice by Means of Democracy.
Among her many accolades, Allen was awarded the Library of Congress’ Kluge Prize, which recognizes scholarly achievement in the disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prize, and the Quantrell award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Chicago, where she also served as Dean of the Division of Humanities (2004-2007). She currently chairs the boards of Partners in Democracy and FairVote and co-chairs the Our Common Purpose Commission. Allen also serves on the boards of the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Adams Presidential Center, and the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and is a past chair of the Mellon Foundation and Pulitzer Prize Board. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
This Rhodes event is free and open to the public, but attendees must pre-register using this link: https://fs22.formsite.com/webmanagerrhodesedu/4i7kriyth1/index
Those with inquiries can contact Dr. Scott Newstok, executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities, at WilsonCenter@rhodes.edu.