"Last Lecture" Series to Begin at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross announces its "Last Lecture" series. Funded by the Lilly Endowment Vocation Initiative, the series offers students and faculty the opportunity to learn more about why some of their favorite professors find the work they do meaningful and worthwhile.

The pretext of the lecture is that the speaker is about to retire and has been asked to sum up in a final lecture to students what they believe has made the work they've dedicated themselves to worthwhile . Given a "last" chance, what's worth saying? What wisdom would be most important to pass on? What challenges have to go unfulfilled?

Each evening will begin with a small dinner in honor of the lecturer at 6:00 p.m. The lecture, at 8:00 p.m., will be open to the public and will be followed by a brief reception.

The series will begin with a lecture by philosophy professor Lawrence Cahoone, on Monday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m. in the Rehm Library.

Cahoone earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The author of numerous publications, he specializes in social and political philosophy, American philosophy and 19th and 20th century European philosophy.