He says that tonight's lecture will focus on urban social movements; he'll also talk about the impllications of urban social movements on the theory of space, and spatial forms and practices.
Cornell University English Professor Thomas Hill kicks off the series with a lecture entitled Pagan and Christian Trees: From Ambrose to "Juniper Tree". Professor Hill's lecture will focus on the importance of trees in Christian thought and will be a literary history of some spiritual, cosmological and real trees in the literature of medieval and early modern Europe.
Professor Biggs's lecture will focus on the desegregation of Harlem Hospital, highlighting the conflicts an tensions that took shape as black doctors sought to merge their professional goals with the larger cause of racial improvement.
Centro Cultural artist-in-residence David Avalos noted that Goldman's lecture will focus on the fierce political side of Siqueiros, which, in Avalos' opinion, the Museum of Art exhibition downplays.
She started life as the sexually abused child of an evangelical Christian father, who was also a closeted gay man who died of AIDS in 1983, and his eerily compliant wife, who after his death became a Christian therapist, lecturing on behalf of James Dobson's Focus on the Family about "overcoming" homosexuality.
Depending on the trip's focus, visitors attend lectures on topics ranging from seeds to santería.
Warburg's lecture was focused on "the dialectics between paganism and post-Enlightenment culture," she said, but "the content comes through the power of the images".
The 2011 12 Provost's Lecture Series, focused on innovation, culminates next week in a panel discussion hosted by Provost Lloyd B. Minor to address these and other questions.
The medical professor's lecture was focused on the differences between the humanities and medicine.
On June 29, the lecture will focus on paintings at Westbury House, including works by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
