Weston Lecturer | David Lyle Jeffrey on Academic Freedom

 

Each year the Annual Weston Lecture is given by an invited speaker whose field of endeavour is pertinent to the Augustine College programme and of interest to a public audience. The lecture series is named after the Weston Foundation, whose generous grant makes it possible for Augustine College to sponsor the lecture.

David Lyle Jeffrey is a Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities at Baylor University. He holds a B.A. degree from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. from Princeton. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, named Inaugural Professor of the Year at the University of Ottawa in 1995, and has also been Guest Professor at Peking University (Beijing) since 1996. He served as Department Chair of English both at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa, and has taught also at the Universities of Rochester, Hull (UK) and Regent College.

Jeffrey is General Editor and co-author of A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (1992). Among his other books are The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality (1975); By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought (1979); Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (1984); English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley (1987; 2001); English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif (1988; 2001); People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (1996; Chinese translation in 2002); with Brian J. Levy he has edited The Anglo-Norman Lyric (1990); with Dominic Manganiello he has edited and co-authored Rethinking the Future of the University (1999); and Houses of the Interpreter (2003). In 2003 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature/Modern Language Association.

Professor Jeffrey's topic for this year's Weston Lecture is academic freedom. His paper is titled: "Between Opinions and a Reasoned Faith: The Bible and Academic Freedom"

• "Between Opinions and a Reasoned Faith: The Bible and Academic Freedom" (17 Mar 06)

Weston Lecture

• Friday, March 17th 2006
• 7:15 p.m.
• the amphitheatre at St. Paul University, Ottawa (223 Main St.)
• poster [3.7 MB pdf]

Directions to St Paul University

• http://web.ustpaul.uottawa.ca/en/gen_info/coordinates.htm

 

 **  We are most grateful to the Weston Foundation for making it possible for Augustine College to sponsor David Lyle Jeffrey to Ottawa **

 

 

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* Some information from http://www.baylor.edu/provost/index.php?id=001153 (2 Feb 06)