Irene Flecknoe Ross Lectures Fund

This endowment is designed to implement a continuing series of lecture-discussion sessions oriented towards a philosophical approach (comprehensive, in-depth, generalist, integrative, interdisciplinary – viewing any subject matter within the broadest possible context) to an unlimited diversity of specific problem situations and events, and to provide for the conception of, and planning for, alternative individual, social and political life styles.

Recent lecture-discussions have included:
 

Mathieu Berger, Universite Catholic de Louvain
"Weirdos Who Care: On Vain Participation and Demophobia"
 Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Clara Bergen, UCLA
"Patient Disclosure of Medical Misdeeds"
 Thursday, April 25, 2013

Kevin Lewis, University of California at San Diego, Department of Sociology
"The Limits of Racial Prejudice"
 Monday, April 29, 2013

Lisa Kim Davis, UCLA, Department of Geography
"Redeveloping Residential Seoul: Insurgent Citizenship, Families and the Geography of Uneven Development"
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Professor of Sociology, USC
"Gardens of Miration: Homeland Re-creation, Community Belonging and the Democracy of Dictatorship in Urban Community Gardens"
Friday, May 3, 2013