Event part of weekend symposium to celebrate publication of Levinson's Wrestling with Diversity
What: The Alexander Terrell Centennial Lecture by Prof. William
Galston, University of Maryland
Who: The UT community and general public are invited to attend
free lecture
When: 6:15 p.m. Thursday, October 30, 2003. Reception at 5:30p.m.;
lecture at 6:15p.m.
Where: Connally Center, Kraft Eidman Courtroom
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin School of Law today announced that William Galston will deliver the 2003 Alexander Terrell Centennial Lecture, "Structures of Diversity: Political Pluralism and the Limits of Public Power," in the Connally Center Kraft Eidman Courtroom at the Law School on Thursday, October 30, at 6:15 p.m. A reception beginning at 5:30 will precede Professor Galston’s lecture.
These events are the public part of a weekend symposium to celebrate the publication of Professor Sanford Levinson's book Wrestling With Diversity (Duke University Press). The general topic of “diversity,” of course, is not only of great theoretical interest, but is also the centerpiece of such litigation as the Hopwood case involving The University of Texas School of Law or the recently-decided Grutter case involving the University of Michigan Law School.
Professor Galston, who formerly taught in the Government Department of the University of Texas, is currently the Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, at the University of Maryland. He is a distinguished political theorist, the author most recently of Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2002), as well as Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State (Cambridge University Press, 1991). In between these two books, Professor Galston served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the first Clinton Administration and Executive Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, which was chaired by Sam Nunn and William Bennett. Earlier experiences in the public realm included serving as Director of Economic and Social Programs at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.; as chief speech writer for John Anderson's National Unity campaign in 1980; as issues director for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984; and as senior advisor to Albert Gore Jr. during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1991-1992. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values. What unites much of his work is an attempt to confront the reality of significant differences of perspective, whether the key word be “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” or “pluralism” within the American social and political order and their implications for the achievement of the American motto E Pluribus Unum, out of plurality, unity.
There is no fee and reservations are not necessary.