Together with the Assembly Series and the Center for the Humanities, the IPH sponsors an annual celebration of the humanities, a series of three lectures delivered by a distinguished humanities scholar or artist.  CDs of the lectures are available for loan or purchase in the IPH office, Umrath Hall, Room 207.  Or, you can listen to the lectures on the Assembly Series site. 

SPRING 2008

Professor Carl Phillips will give three lectures on The Art of Restlessness: On Poetry and Making.

Tuesday, March 25, 4pm, Umrath Lounge, Reception to Follow

Thursday, March 27, 12noon, McMillan Cafe

Tuesday, April 1, 12noon, Women's Building, Formal Lounge

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In the Spring of 2007, Professor Gerry Izenberg presented three lectures on the topic of Identity in the Modern World. Professor Izenberg is the author of a book on Freud and existentialism, a psycho-historical study of the political substrate Romanticism, Impossible individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802, and, more recently, a study of Modernism and Masculinity. Here at Washington University, he has a loyal following for his
three-course sequence on European Intellectual History from the Enlightenment to the present. His lectures for the Humanities Lecture Series were a "first cut" at a new book on the history of identity.

In the Spring of 2006, Professor Wayne Fields, the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English, American Literature and American Culture Studies presented three lectures on rhetoric. He has written a memoir, What the River Knows: An Angler in Mid-Stream (1990) and a collection of short stories, The Past Leads a Life of Its Own (1992). He is also the author of Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence (1996).