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Sesquicentennial Lecture Series
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Thursday, February 1
Oppenheimer Lecture by Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Divinity School professor,
Hinduism and mythology expert
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
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Thursday, February 15
“Extreme Architecture: Disaster, Spectacle and Signs of Hope for the Post 9/11 World"
Oppenheimer Lecture by Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Monday, March 26
"From Mad Cows to "Psi-chotic" Yeast: Strange Diseases and Strange Genetics"
21st Annual Volwiler Lecture by Susan Lindquist, MIT biologist
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Listen to audio from Susan Lindquist lecture
APRIL
Monday, April 9
"On Democracy and Knowledge"
Ruth Winter Lecture by Danielle Allen, University of Chicago professor and dean of the division of humanities. This talk marks the opening of the 2007 Steven Galovich Memorial Student Symposium.
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Thursday, April 12
Lecture by Alpana Singh, host of Chicago PBS hit series Check, Please! and author of Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine & Having Great Relationships
7:30 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Tuesday, April 24
"Renewable Energy: Myths and Realities"
A.B. Dick Lecture by Michael P. Polsky, president and CEO of Invenergy LLC
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
SEPTEMBER
Sunday, September 9
"Islam at the Crosroads: In the Media, in the Academy, at Home and Abroad"
Lecture by Bruce Lawrence, Duke University religion professor and Islamicist
7:30 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
OCTOBER
Thursday, October 4
Lecture by Thomas Friedman, best-selling author, New York Times foreign affairs columnist, and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, titled "The World is Still Flat."
Admission is free but tickets are required, please call 847-735-5085; generously supported by the City of Lake Forest and the Oppenheimer Family Foundation.
8:00 p.m. * Sports Center
Thursday, October 18
"Lupus and Snurps: Uncovering an Extra Step in the Central Dogma"
22nd Annual Volwiler Lecture by Joan Steitz, Yale University chemist
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Thursday, November 29
"Chicago's Millennium Park"
Oppenheimer Lecture by John Bryan, Chairman of Millennium Park, Inc.
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel