I am very pleased to present the Graduate Council Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. Seven lectureships comprise the Graduate Council Lectures, each with a distinct endowment history. These unique lectureship programs have brought distinguished visitors to Berkeley since 1909 to speak on a wide range of topics, from philosophy to the sciences.
This spring I am proud to host The Honorable Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who will deliver the Jefferson Memorial Lecture in March. The Jefferson Lectures were established to promote the basic principles of American democracy.
In April, the well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jonathan Barnes, Professor Emeritus in the Universities of Oxford, Geneva, and Paris-Sorbonne, will present the Howison Lectures in Philosophy. The Howison Lectures were endowed as a memorial to George Holmes Howison, a central figure in the establishment and history of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Also in April, philosopher and Princeton University Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer will present the Foerster Lecture. Many prominent individuals, including writer Aldous Huxley and physician and author Oliver Sacks, have presented the Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul since they were first established.
I invite you to attend these exciting events, which are free and open to the public. I hope you take advantage of this opportunity to listen to and interact with these distinguished speakers.
Andrew Szeri
Dean of the Graduate Division
University of California, Berkeley