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April lectures at Illinois focus on ethics, and on legacy of pesticides
Craig Chamberlain,
News Editor
217-333-2894; cdchambe@uiuc.edu
4/4/2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Ethics will be at the heart of the first of two April lectures in the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The
second lecture will focus on the health consequences of pesticide use.
The lectures are the last in the series for the spring semester.
On April 21, Jonathan Lear will speak on “Ethics and the Collapse
of Civilization,” looking at how a group can struggle with how
to live when its values and traditional way of life collapse or lose
meaning. Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the
department of philosophy at the University of Chicago, will draw from
the experience of the Crow tribe. His talk begins at 4 p.m. in Room
100 of Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana.
The topic on April 25 will be “Toxic Drift: The Lasting Legacy
of Post-World War II Pesticide Use,” presented by Pete Daniel,
historian and curator from the Division of Work and Industry at the
Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Daniel will discuss the failure of government to protect human health
and wildlife from the dangers of pesticide use, and will explore the
implications for recent issues such as mad cow disease and genetic engineering.
His talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock
Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana.
The MillerComm lecture series began in 1973 and is supported with funds
from the George A. Miller Endowment and several co-sponsoring campus
units. The lectures provide a forum for discourse on topics spanning
the university’s many disciplines.
All CAS talks are free and open to the public.
For additional information, or to confirm scheduling details prior to
a lecture, check the events section of the CAS
Web site.
