Scholars Lecture Series

Philip
Kunhardt is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of
Transformative Lives at NYU.  The Center looks at “exemplary individuals
whose dedication, genius, and moral vision helped shape the course of
human events,” in the context of their times and the circles in which
they moved.  He will talk about some of the “lives” he studies
especially deeply – the young Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass,
Martin Luther King, Jr. – as well as the art and purpose of biography
during times of great social change.  Kunhardt is Distinguished Scholar
in Residence in the Humanities at New York University and teacher of
history and biography in the College of Arts and Science. He has
co-authored five books, and written and co-produced numerous
documentaries for PBS, ABC, HBO, Discovery and other networks. He gave a
Scholars Lecture in 2009.

Registration and refreshments at 6:15; lecture begins at 7:00.

Tickets are $20 for members, $25 for non-members, free for students.  

Call 232-8119 for reservations.