2018 Callahan Distinguished Lecture Speaker Announced
Each year, the F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture features a speaker to engage the Greater Cleveland community in active discourse about important topics of our time. From prominent academic leaders to national experts, the annual series honors a candidate who emphasizes the values of excellence, integrity and respect.
The Callahan Foundation is proud to announce the selected 2018 speaker, Jill Lepore. Lepore is a professor of American History at Harvard University, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and the author of several prize-winning books, including The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014). She is currently writing a history of the United States.
Lepore will present a lecture on the topic of “Life As An Argument” on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, as part of the Think Forum series at Case Western Reserve University. Â
Past speakers have included acclaimed professor, cultural critic, author and filmmaker Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., noted Harvard University psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond, Kay Redfield Jamison, an international authority on mood disorders, and New York Times best-selling authors Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband.
Reserve free tickets for the lecture online, or call the Maltz Performing Arts Center box office at 216.368.6062.