<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<h2>Please join us for the next event in the 2008-09 Feinberg Family
Lecture Series:<br>
</h2>
<h2><a
href="http://blogs.umass.edu/thevalue/2008/08/21/unnatural-selection-eugenics-race-and-ideas-of-biological-value/"
rel="bookmark" title="Eugenics, Race, and Ideas of Biological Value">Unnatural
Selection: Eugenics, Race, and Ideas of Biological Value<br>
<br>
</a></h2>
<p>Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m., <a
href="http://www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/downloads/campusmap.pdf">The
Commons, 2nd floor, Studio Arts Building</a></p>
<p>RICHARD LEWONTIN, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard
University<br>
DIANE PAUL, Associate of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University<br>
LAURA LOVETT, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst</p>
<h2><a
href="http://blogs.umass.edu/thevalue/2008/08/25/2008-feinberg-lecture-series-web-log/"
rel="bookmark"
title="Permanent Link to Department of History, UMass Amherst — Feinberg Lecture Series Website/Log">Sponsored
by the Department of History, UMass Amherst — Feinberg Lecture Series<br>
</a></h2>
<p>The 2008-09 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by
the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,
will take as its theme “Measuring the Value of Human Life,” which will
engage scholarship in history, bioethics, legal studies, the arts, and
other realms to explore how value has been ascribed to human lives in
courtrooms, labs, archives, boardrooms, and universities. Public
lectures, panels, and film screenings will consider subjects ranging
from the role of war and sacrifice in ancient societies to contemporary
reparations movements. Events will examine efforts to compensate
individuals and families for lives and limbs lost on the battlefield
and in the workplace. We will consider attempts (from the religious to
the technological) to purchase eternal life, and reflect on ways in
which historians have measured and valued life stories. In sum, this
exciting series investigates the many and varied approaches to the
questions, what is life worth?<br>
</p>
<p>The series is grounded in the work of University of Massachusetts
Amherst alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master of the Federal
September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 and author of the book <a
onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outgoing/www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586483234');"
href="http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586483234">What
is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of
9/11</a>.
Mr. Feinberg’s distinguished and wide-ranging career in mediation has
included cases involving Agent Orange and the Dalkon Shield; most
recently he oversaw Virginia Tech’s Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund.</p>
<p>This program is affiliated with <a
onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outgoing/www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute/');"
href="http://www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute/">The Feinberg Institute</a>,
a center for research and scholarship that will guide policymakers, the
legal community, decision-makers and others as they grapple with the
question, “How Much is a Life Worth?” To learn more about this
initiative, see: <a
onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outgoing/www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute/');"
href="http://www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute/"
title="Feinberg Institute">www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute</a><br>
<br>
</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Dr. Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Franklin Patterson Hall 208
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 559-5578 (o)
(413) 559-5620 (f)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jhamilton@hampshire.edu">jhamilton@hampshire.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hampshire.edu/ss/7410.htm">http://www.hampshire.edu/ss/7410.htm</a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>