Calendar of Great Lives Lectures

All lectures are open to the public free of charge and begin at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium in George Washington Hall. For further information, contact Abbie McGhee, Special Events Coordinator, at (540) 654-1055.

2009
January 22	Socrates	Christopher B. Nelson President, St. John's College
January 27 Rescheduled due to weather for February 10	Leonardo Da Vinci	Bulent Atalay Professor, UMW Department of Physics Author, Leonardo's Universe
January 29	Patrick Henry	Richard Schumann Historical Interpreter, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
February 3	James Monroe	Dan Preston Editor, Papers of James Monroe, UMW Author, James Monroe: An Illustrated History
February 5	John Marshall	Jean Edward Smith Professor of Political Science, Marshall University Author, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
February 10 Rescheduled from January 27 because of weather	Leonardo Da Vinci	Bulent Atalay Professor, UMW Department of Physics Author, Leonardo's Universe
February 12	Frederick Douglass	Jeffrey McClurken Chair, UMW Department of History and American Studies
February 17	Daniel Boone	Robert Morgan Professor of English, Cornell University Author, Boone: A Biography
February 24	John Brown	Paul Finkelman Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany Law School Author, Slavery and the Founders
February 26	Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain	Mark Perry Author, Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship
March 10	Mary Magdalene	James E. Goehring Professor, UMW Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion
March 17	Clara Barton	Elizabeth Brown Pryor Author, Clara Barton: Professional Angel
March 19	Catherine the Great	Sean Pollock Professor of History, Wright State University
March 26	John James Audubon	Andrew Dolby Associate Professor, UMW Department of Biological Sciences
March 31	Mary Todd Lincoln	Jason Emerson Author, The Madness of Mary Lincoln
April 2	Special Inaugural Lecture: James Farmer	Raymond Arsenault Professor of Southern History, University of Southern Florida Author, Freedom Riders
April 7	Frankenstein	Susan Tyler Hitchock Author, Frankenstein: A Cultural History
April 14	Harry Potter	Philip Nel Professor of English, Kansas State University
April 21	Hugh Hefner	Steven Watts Professor of American Intellectual and Cultural History, University of Missouri Author, Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
April 23	Ronald Reagan	Stephen J. Farnsworth Professor of Communication, George Mason University Author, Spinner in Chief

Calendar of Great Lives Lectures

2009