Roosevelt Montás - Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation

ROOSEVELT MONTÁS - RESCUING SOCRATES: HOW THE GREAT BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE AND WHY THEY MATTER FOR A NEW GENERATION

When: 7pm, March 14, 2024
Where: 2452 Knauss Hall, WMU
What: Lecture: Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation

Please join us for a lecture and Q&A with Roosevelt Montás, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University.  Montás holds an A.B. (1995), an M.A. (1996), and a Ph.D. (2004) in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.  He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018.  Roosevelt specializes in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a particular interest in American citizenship.  His dissertation, Rethinking America: Abolitionism and the Antebellum Transformation of the Discourse of National Identity, won Columbia University’s 2004 Bancroft Award.  In 2000, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student.  Roosevelt teaches “Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West,” a year-long course on primary texts in moral and political thought, as well as seminars in American Studies including “Freedom and Citizenship in the United States.” He is Director of the Center for American Studies Freedom and Citizenship Program in collaboration with the Double Discovery Center. He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton University Press, 2021). 

This event is free, no registration required. Free parking in Parking Structure #2 adjacent to Miller Auditorium.