EVENT:
"Art and Ideas in the Cold War" with Louis Menand

Academic and public intellectual Louis Menand is known for his insight on American culture. Currently, he is working on an intellectual history of the Cold War with a fellowship from the New York Public Library. His book, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, explores the lives of four American thinkers in the post-Civil War period, and it won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history. He frequently writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. At Harvard University, where he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature & Language, he has participated in panels on the future of higher education at Harvard and in the U.S.

DATE:
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

TIME:
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2007

LOCATION:
University Club, UC Irvine Campus

BACKGROUND:
This talk is sponsored by UCI Humanities Center, which was established in 1997 to foster intellectual dialogue between UCI and the Orange County community. The center initiates discussions, lectures, conferences and other public events on topics bridging departments, disciplines and programs that contribute to the diversity of the humanities.