Una’s Lectures

Every year for one week, the Townsend Center hosts a distinguished scholar as Una’s Lecturer in the Humanities. The Una’s Lecturer delivers one or more public lectures and meets with faculty and students.

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Una’s Lecturer 2011-2012

Lisbet Rausing, Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College

"Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, Publishing, and the Public"
Monday, April 9, 2012
6 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Follow-up Panel Discussion with Lisbet Rausing
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
4-6 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Panel Discussants: Anthony Cascardi (Dean, Arts & Humanities),
Carla Hesse (Dean, Social Sciences), AnnaLee Saxenian (Dean,
School of Information), and Thomas Leonard (University Librarian)

Dr. Lisbet Rausing is a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. She is also the founder of the Arcadia Fund, which since 2001 has made grant commitments of over $181 million to preserve endangered treasures of culture and nature. Dr. Rausing is the author of Linnaeus: Nature and Nation as well as numerous scholarly articles, including “Toward a New Alexandria,” (The New Republic, March 2010), which addresses the future of libraries and public access to scholarly resources. Dr. Rausing earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University, and subsequently taught at Harvard for eight years. She is a fellow of the Linnean Society, the Royal Historical Society, and the British Academy.

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