Kyle Harper (U. Oklahoma): "Why the Humanities and Sciences Should Be Friends: On Biodiversity"

Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm UTC-06:00

University of Memphis University Center | Memphis

Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities
Publisher/HostMarcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities
Kyle Harper (U. Oklahoma): "Why the Humanities and Sciences Should Be Friends: On Biodiversity"
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Thursday, February 26
Reception at 5:30 // Lecture at 6:00pm
UC River Room Room
Convenient parking in the Zach Curlin Garage
Join us for the Department of History's Sesquicentennial Lecture with Dr. Kyle Harper.
Kyle Harper is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, Professor of Classics and Letters, Senior Advisor to the President, and Provost Emeritus at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is also a Fractal Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute, and in 2023-24 the holder of an annual Chair at the Collège de France (chaire “Avenir Commun Durable”) in Paris. Harper has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in addition to a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Full details here: https://www.memphis.edu/moch/events/#HISTORY
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