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Spring 2000 Colloquium Series: "What's the University for?"

March 2

"The Culture of the University"

Mark Edmundson, University of Virginia
Jackson Lears, Rutgers University

March 30

"University and Public Intellectuals"

Gerald Graff, University of Illinois, Chicago
Russell Jacoby, University of California-Los Angeles

April 13

"The Purposes of the University"

George Marsden, Notre Dame University
Julie Reuben, Harvard University
Richard Rorty, Stanford University

Julie Reuben

Richard Rorty

The Spring 2000 Colloquium Series, entitled "What's the University For?" addressed the ways in which changes in the broader culture are affecting the culture of the university, the role of university and public intellectuals, and the moral purposes of the university.

Papers from this colloquium series were published in the Fall 2000 issue of The Hedgehog Review.

Each spring the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture sponsors a series of public lectures, held at the University of Virginia. The purpose of these colloquia is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for exploring and discussing issues of enduring significance and common concern. Often working together with other departments and programs at the University of Virginia, these colloquia address tough issues of abiding importance in ways that challenge prevailing assumptions and categories in the academy.