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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Georgia Law professor Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture
No full textPulitzer Prize-winning author and former Georgia Law professor Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture Thursday, April 2, 2015
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture
Athens, Ga. – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar Edward Larson will return to the University of Georgia to deliver a Charter Lecture titled “George Washington and America\u27s Second Revolution.”
The lecture, open free to the public, will be held April 23 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel.
Larson is University Professor of History and Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. Focusing on the issues of law, science and politics from a historical perspective, he is the author of more than 100 articles and nine books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.” His latest book, “The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789,” has reached The New York Times best-sellers list.
Larson taught at UGA for two decades, serving as chair of the history department as well as the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and holder of the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law. In 1992, he received the Richard B. Russell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, the university’s highest early career teaching honor.
“Dr. Larson joins a long and distinguished line of Charter lecturers, and we are delighted to have him back on campus to share his insights on a pivotal moment in our nation’s history,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
Larson has lectured on four continents and has served as a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and as a visiting professor teaching American constitutional law at the University of Melbourne. He has delivered endowed or named lectures at more than 40 colleges or universities and is interviewed frequently by broadcast and print media.
Larson was a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in 1996; held the Fulbright Program’s John Adams Chair in American Studies for 2001; delivered the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Sarton Award Lecture in 2000; participated in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Writers and Artists program in 2003 and 2004; served as an inaugural Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon in 2013 and 2014; and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University in 2004. From 2006 to 2009, he was a panelist on the National Institutes of Health’s Study Section for Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome Project.
UGA’s Charter Lecture Series was established in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that created UGA as the first chartered state university in America. The series, sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, brings to campus speakers who discuss ideas of general importance to a free society. Previous speakers have included James R. Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence; award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; as well as poet laureates, scientists, medical experts, leading attorneys and religious leaders. For a list of past Charter lecturers, seehttp://provost.uga.edu/documents/charter_lecture_history-rev2014.pdf.
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LARSON\u27S NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
No full textTalmadge Chair of Law Edward Larson debuts his most recent book, “Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, in which he explores the “dramatic history of the theory of evolution. To learn more about Larson\u27s book, see the Athens Banner- Herald. In the archives section, enter “07/12/04 and look under “Books. Registration (free) may be required. Kimberly E. Mock is the author, and the article was published on 07/12/04
LARSON\u27S NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
No full textTalmadge Chair of Law Edward Larson debuts his most recent book, “Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, in which he explores the “dramatic history of the theory of evolution. To learn more about Larson\u27s book, see the Athens Banner- Herald. In the archives section, enter “07/12/04 and look under “Books. Registration (free) may be required. Kimberly E. Mock is the author, and the article was published on 07/12/04
Combatting the #sin of self-sacrifice'? : Christian feminism in the women's suffrage struggle, 1903-1918.
No full textEpistemologia E A GramÁtica Gerativa: O Debate Entre Larson E Jackendoff Sobre A Estrutura Dos Objetos Duplos
No full textThis paper is based on a debate between Richard Larson and RayJackendoff about the treatment to be given to structures involving verbs which select two internal arguments. Its aim is to analyse the kinds of arguments used by each author in light of the scientific investigation program proposed by Popper in his article Philosophy of Science: a personal report.34
EPISTEMOLOGIA E A GRAMÁTICA GERATIVA: O DEBATE ENTRE LARSON E JACKENDOFF SOBRE A ESTRUTURA DOS OBJETOS DUPLOS
No full textThis paper is based on a debate between Richard Larson and RayJackendoff about the treatment to be given to structures involving verbs which select two internal arguments. Its aim is to analyse the kinds of arguments used by each author in light of the scientific investigation program proposed by Popper in his article Philosophy of Science: a personal report
Philippe Raphanel : Particles
No full textPublished on the occasion of Raphanel's "Particles" exhibition, this catalogue presents an essay by Culley which calls attention to the artist's resistance to the picturesque, as well as issues of identity, materiality and meaning. Correlations between painting and poetry are also discussed within the context of the landscape tradition. Includes a poem by the author. Biographical notes. 30 bibl. ref
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Morocco
No full textThis paper tries to uncover the reasons underlying the performance of the Moroccan economy. The author argues that wage moderation and judicious monetary policies were instrumental in restraining inflation. With one brief exception in 1983, monetary authorities remained firmly committed to eschew any inflationary financing of the budget deficit. This strategy could only succeed however because of the wide ranging system of credit and monetary regulations which worked to channel domestic funds toward the Treasury at relatively low costs. The prospects for the continuation of such a strategy are not favourable however. As far as the growth performance is concerned, it appears that it can be attributed to an outstanding export response to the new trade regime on the one hand and a set of favourable supply shocks, including a string of recordagricultural harvests and the collapse of real oil prices, on the other. The paper studies the evolution of the budget and its different components and argues that the reluctance by Morocco's policy makers to monetize existing budget deficits is well explained by the sharply unfavourable trade-offs between higher monetization and inflation existing in Morocco. It analyzes the implications that continuing budgetary disequilibria has on investment and saving decisions and finds that such implications may be substantial, even though they may not work their way exclusively through traditional interest rates channels.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Financial Intermediation
Multimedia informed consent tool for a low literacy African research population: development and pilot-testing
No full textCatalog Of The Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection Of Musical Instruments.
No full textI t is the purpose o f th is d issertation to present the resu lts of a detailed examination made by th is author of fo rty -th re e nineteenthcentury B ritish brass instruments from the C ollection — s lid e trumpets, a hand horn, keyed bugles, an ophicleide, an a l t horn, cornopeans, cornets, a trumpet, a flugelhorn, a French horn, a lto horns, tenor horns, trombones, and tubas — made by the leading nineteenth-century B ritis h makers: Besson, B ilto n , Boosey, G a rre tt, Grayson, Higham, Kohler, M e tzle r, Pace, and R iviere & Hawkes
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