October 10

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10:

Garry Wills: Head and Heart: American Christianities http://www.cooper.edu/month.html#oct
Free Lecture and book signing
6:30 pm in The Great Hall: 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue

Garry Wills is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University who has written more than 30 books, including studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan and religion in America. His most recent novel, Head and Heart: American Christianities, explores the struggle within American Christianity from the key movements and personalities that have transformed America's religious landscape to the forces of creationism and the anti-abortion fundamentalists. Wills argues that the conflict is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, enlightenment and evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between the two poles played out, and with what consequences, over the past 400 years? How "Christian" is America, after all?

Abortion and Human Nature http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/index_october_07.htm#Iberian
Don Marquis, University of Kansas (Philosophy)
4:15 PM, Room 9206/9207 at CUNY (34th and 5th)