Lindley Lectures Series
The 2010 Lindley Lecturer will be:
James Griffin
White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Emeritus
Oxford University
TBA
October 6, 2010
8:00 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union
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Lindley Lecture Series
The E. H. Lindley Memorial Lectureship Fund was established in 1941 in
memory of Ernest H. Lindley, Chancellor of the University of Kansas from
1920 to 1939. In February 1941 Mr. Roy Roberts, the chairman of the committee
in charge, suggested in the Graduate Magazine that
- the Chancellor should invite to the University for a lecture or a
series of lectures, some outstanding national or world figure to speak
on "Values of Living" -- just as the late Chancellor proposed to do
in his courses "The Human Situation" and "Plan for Living."
In the following June Mr. Roberts circulated a letter on behalf of the Committee,
proposing in somewhat broader terms that
- The income from this fund should be spent in a quest of social betterment
by bringing to the University each year outstanding world leaders for
a lecture or series of lectures, yet with a design so broad in its outline
that in the years to come, if it is deemed wise, this living memorial
could take some more desirable form.
The fund was allowed to accumulate until 1954, when Professor Richard
McKeon lectured on "Human Rights and International Relations." The next
lecture was given in 1959 by Professor Everett C. Hughes, and has been
published by the University of Kansas School of Law as part of his book
Student's Culture and Perspectives: Lectures on Medical and General
Education. The selection of lectures for the Lindley series has since
been delegated to the department of Philosophy.
