THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
MARCH 19, 1999
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Distinguished Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor will kick-off a new annual public lecture series sponsored by UVic's humanities centre in association with the CBC.
Taylor will deliver the first Victoria Lecture, entitled "Two Theories of Modernity," on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Human and Social Development A240. The lecture will likely be broadcast on a future edition of CBC Radio One's Ideas program.
Taylor was educated at Oxford University and is currently teaching and writing at McGill University. He has made important contributions to the study of the formation of human identity and has been active in support of the movement for Quebecois self-determination. His works include Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989), The Ethics of Authenticity (1991), "The Politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism (1994), and "Nationalism and Modernity" in The Morality of Nationalism (1997).
Dr. Ian MacPherson, UVic's dean of humanities, was instrumental in establishing the new lecture series. "We wanted to create an annual event to bring some of the most important thinkers of our times to Victoria and to make them available to people in the community, our students and our faculty," says MacPherson. "In the process, we hope to foster a greater appreciation of the contribution of the humanities to our lives and to draw public attention to the engagement of humanists at UVic with the major cultural issues of our times."