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Monday, September 15, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wallace Hettle, associate professor of history, (319) 273-2942
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing & Public Relations, (319) 273-6728
UNI's next Becker history lecture will discuss Augustine and early Christian thought CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- "Sex, Politics, and Death: Augustine on Evil and Embodiment" will be the topic of the 35th Annual Carl L. Becker Memorial Lecture in History, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 24, in Seerley Hall Room 115 on the University of Northern Iowa Campus. David Hunter, Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky, will deliver the lecture.
Hunter's academic interests lie in the early history of Christianity and the history of Christian thought, and he has published several books and numerous articles on Greek and Latin writers of the early church. His most recent book, "Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovianianist Controversy," examines early Christian debates about marriage and celibacy. Hunter is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies and has served as president of the North American Patristics Society.
The memorial history lecture is given in honor of the late Carl L. Becker, a native of Reinbeck, and a distinguished scholar and teacher who became one of America's most respected historians. He is most commonly known for warning people not to become slaves to weapons of mechanical power in fear they may, in the end, destroy themselves. He expressed these concerns in the decade before the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima.
The 2008-2009 History Lecture Series is sponsored by the UNI Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta history honor society
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