Dean’s Lecture Series
Professor David P. Silverman, University Of Pennsylvania
Curator “Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs”
September, 2007 12:30 pm
Dr. Silverman is the national curator, advisor and academic content creator for “Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.” In 1977, he was in charge of curatorial content for the “Treasures of Tutankhamen” at Chicago’s Field Museum, and co-authored the text panels and labels that traveled around the U.S. with the exhibition. Presently, Dr. Silverman is the Eckley B. Coxe, Jr. professor and curator at the University of Pennsylvania. He also is the chairman of the department of near eastern languages and civilizations and the curator-in-charge of the Egyptian collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Richard K. Bennett Lectureship
for Peace and Social Justice
Frances Moore Lappe
Monday, February 25, 2008 7 pm
Frances Moore Lappé is the author or coauthor of sixteen books. Her 1971 three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet continues to awaken readers to the human-made causes of hunger and the power of our everyday choices to create the world we want. Together, Lappé and her daughter Anna Lappé lead the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. In 1975, with Joseph Collins, Lappé launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). Its publications continue to shape the international debate on the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Institute was described by The New York Times as one of the nation’s “most respected food think tanks.” In 2006, Lappé released Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life (Wiley/Jossey-Bass). The book, which seeks to ignite debate about the very meaning of democracy, is now being used in courses in at least twenty-two schools.
