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NEWS - JANUARY 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Josh Brooks
MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
561-297-2971 or ssmith@fau.edu
Photo attached.
CALENDAR INFORMATION
CATEGORY: Lecture
EVENT: Stanley Fish, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago with two lectures:
"Why Milton Matters: The Case against Historicism" and
"One More Time: Tolerance, Free Speech, Difference, Mutual Respect, Contingency, Truth and Interpretive Communities Revisited."
WHEN: Wednesday, January 28, 4-5:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 24, 6:30-8 p.m.
WHERE: Performing Arts Building, Room 101
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton campus
777 Glades Road
COST: Free and open to the public.
INFORMATION: For more information, please contact the Department of English at 561-297-3830.
DESCRIPTION: Stanley Fish is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley (1962-74); Johns Hopkins University (1974-85), where he was the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities; and Duke University, where he was Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law (1986-1998). From 1993 through 1998, he served as Executive Director of Duke University Press. He is the author of several books including There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too; The Trouble with Principle; and How Milton Works. The lectures are sponsored by the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities Endowment.
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