"Last Lecture" Series to Continue at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross continues its "Last Lecture" series on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library with a lecture by Vickie Langohr, assistant professor of political science. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Funded by the Lilly Endowment Vocation Initiative, 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 meaningful and worthwhile. Given a "last" chance, what's worth saying? What wisdom would be most important to pass on? What challenges have to go unfulfilled?

Langohr earned her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. The recipient of several research awards and fellowships, she has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998. Langohr is an expert on Middle East politics. She writes and lectures on democratization in the Arab world, the Middle East peace process and religious movements in the Middle East and South Asia.