Inside the University of Chicago: Strategic Education at a Modern University
May 14, 2008: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Chicago Lecturer Lee Behnke will present a short lecture on the Mayflower Compact of 1620 and will then lead the group in a lively debate on the origins of self-governance, democracy, and the social contract; and the relevance of such concepts some 400 years on.
Where
Chicago GSB London Campus
Woolgate Exchange
25 Basinghall St
London, United Kingdom
Cost
No Charge
Program
7:00 PM-7:30 PM: Registration
7:30 PM-8:30 PM: Program
8:30 PM-9:30 PM: Networking Reception
Registration
Register By Email
Deadline: 5/7/2008
Questions
Mindy Hollar,
020 7070 2244
Speaker Profiles
Lee Behnke (Speaker)
Associate Faculty Member and Senior Lecturer, Classics Department, University of Chicago
http://www.uchicago.edu
Lee Behnke comes to us from the University’s program in Athens. She is an Associate Faculty member in Classical Languages and Literature, Classics Department and the Director of the Undergraduate Latin Program in the Classics at the University of Chicago.
Behnke consistently earns high marks for her engaging and thoughtful teaching style. She has been a senior lecturer in the College since 1997, where she teaches what she calls the 'big, great texts' - the Iliad, Genesis, Plato's Dialogs, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare and Augustine.