Kyle Harper (U. Oklahoma): "Why the Humanities and Sciences Should Be Friends: On Biodiversity"

Name: Kyle Harper (U. Oklahoma): "Why the Humanities and Sciences Should Be Friends: On Biodiversity"
Start: 2026-02-26T17:30:00-06:00
Location: University of Memphis University Center

Schedule

Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

University of Memphis University Center | Memphis, TN

Thursday, February 26
Reception at 5:30 // Lecture at 6:00pm
UC River Room Room
Convenient parking in the Zach Curlin Garage
Join us for the Department of History's Sesquicentennial Lecture with Dr. Kyle Harper.
Kyle Harper is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, Professor of Classics and Letters, Senior Advisor to the President, and Provost Emeritus at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is also a Fractal Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute, and in 2023-24 the holder of an annual Chair at the Collège de France (chaire “Avenir Commun Durable”) in Paris. Harper has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in addition to a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Full details here: https://www.memphis.edu/moch/events/#HISTORY