| LAS 400: | The University and the Public Sphere: Public Intellectuals and Their Social Influence |
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Public Lectures
| Janurary 29 | Phillip Brian Harper | 4:00, SSB | Intellectuals in Public at the Site of Disaster: Dispatches from the Morning of September 11 |
| February 6 | Phillip Brian Harper | 6:00, Chicago Historical Society | Panel Discussion: Black Public Intellectuals On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars (Click link for details.) |
| April 1 | Barbara Ehrenreich | 6:00, Harold Washington Library | The New Economy: Freedom for All or Ideological Illusion? (With Tom Frank [editor of The Baffler] and Saskia Sassen [U Chicago].) |
| April 10 | Barbara Ehrenreich | 3:00, SSB | Nickel and Dimed: A Journalist Reports on Low-Wage America |
| April 18 | Richard Rorty | 3:00, SSB | American Universities and the Hope for Social Change |
| April 25 | Richard Rorty | 6:00, Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern Univ. | An Exchange Between Richard Rorty and Richard Posner |