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The Institute for Research in the Humanities sponsors two public lecture series. The annual Coleman Lecture in the History of Science honors Professor William Coleman, a distinguished historian of science at the University of Wisconsin from 1978 until his death in 1988. The Coleman Lectures were inaugurated in 1990 by Professor David Joravsky of Northwestern University. The Coleman lecturer for 2003-2004 was Robert Richards, University of Chicago, "The Erotic Foundations of Morphology: Goethe, Kant, and the Metaphysics of the Female Form." The Coleman lecturer will be held on May 2, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in room6240 Social Science Building: Robert Nye, Oregon State University, "Why Sex is Gender (Again)." The biennial Brée Lecture in the Humanities honors Professor Germaine Brée, a distinguished professor of French literature at the University of Wisconsin and a senior member of the Institute for Research in the Humanities from 1962 to 1973. The first Brée lecturer, in 1992, was Professor Victor Brombert of Princeton University. The Brée lecturer for 2001-2002 was Joan W. Scott, of the Institute for Advanced Study. The Bree lecturer for 2003-2004 was Marie-Helene Huet, Department of French, Princeton University, "The Wreck of Medusa: Anatomy of a Disaster." The Julius R. Weinberg Memorial Lecture, "Should Spinoza have Published his Philosophy," by Daniel Garber, Princeton University. Friday, October 5, 4:00 in 4281 Helen C. White Hall. For information on these lectures, contact Loretta Freiling at 608-262-3855 or freiling@wisc.edu
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