Delivered by Professor Timothy Troy

This lecture on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, delivered at Lawrence University on January 23, 2008, was designed for students and faculty in the college’s Freshman Studies program. Freshman Studies, a multidisciplinary introduction to the liberal arts, has been the cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum for over fifty years. The lecturer, Timothy X. Troy is a director of plays, operas, and musicals throughout the Midwest. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History of Ideas – modern, from Lawrence University. He earned the Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts/Directing from the University of Iowa, where he directed the original production of five new plays from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Troy refers to himself as “a theatrical omnivore.” The opportunities, he says, to express himself in many different facets of theatre — directing operas, musicals, and plays, as well as writing — are what he finds personally exciting and professionally invigorating.

Delivered by Prof. Peter Glick

This lecture on Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, delivered at Lawrence University on January 9, 2008, was designed for students and faculty in the college’s Freshman Studies program. Freshman Studies, a multidisciplinary introduction to the liberal arts, has been the cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum for over fifty years. The lecturer, Peter Glick, is Professor of Psychology at Lawrence. Glick serves on the editorial boards of four professional journals, including recent appointments to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychology of Women Quarterly. He spent two weeks this past year as a visiting “outstanding psychologist” at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has been invited to give talks at universities and conferences across the United States, as well as in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Chile.

This lecture is only available on-campus.