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Kritikos Professorship in the Humanities

Established in 1993 with a generous gift from David B. Stern and Nancy Guitteau, the Kritikos Professorship brings to the university and to the state distinguished scholars, critics, and leaders in the humanities. This lectureship was created to foster the education of UO students and faculty, and to promote intelligent, critical, public discourse across Oregon. Kritikos Professors are known for speaking their minds, even if what they have to say is currently unfashionable. Kritikos lectures are published each year and are available through the Humanities Center.

Past Kritikos professors have included John Shelby Spong, Louis Menand, Richard Rodriguez, Stanley Crouch, Robert Alter, William Kennedy, Milton Viorst, and Victor Davis Hanson.

2008-09 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities, Kenneth Miller, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, will speak on “Time to Abandon Darwin? Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul” on Wednesday, May 27at 7:30 p.m. in 150 Columbia Hall and on “Darwin, God, and Design: America’s Continuing Problem with Evolution” on Thursday, May 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the UO Portland Center, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St., Portland Part of the Darwin Bicentennial Lecture Series

Complete list of previous Kritikos Professors

updated: 3/24/09