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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Prof. Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History at Louisiana State University<\/p>\n

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Suzanne Marchand presenting “Archeology, <\/span>the Bible, and Classical Antiquity in the 19th Century<\/span>“<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 14, 2024, 5:00 p.m., Viking Theater<\/p>\n

\u201cArcheology, <\/span>the Bible, and Classical Antiquity in the 19th Century\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do new discoveries change research patterns? How long does it take for the public to catch up? Why do certain cultures care about their ancient roots (and which ancient roots do they care about)? Do events in ancient Greece (or Persia) matter to modern Americans today? Why? Can archaeology \u2018prove\u2019 the truth of the Bible (or of a classical text)? Marchand\u2019s lecture asks, \u201cHow and when did decipherments and archaeological excavations change our picture of the ancient world? The answers are surprising \u2013 as it happens, it took a very long time for material finds to displace textual accounts, whether classical or biblical. Although the general public was enthralled by new excavations, for example at Nineveh, Luxor, Olympia, and Troy, for a long time it was very hard to correlate material and textual evidence, and indeed, many of these problems still persist. Do archaeologists simply find what they are looking for, as the pathbreaking excavator Flinders Petrie himself once charged? Or have artifacts and field research actually changed our views of the past?” (from the lecture summary pamphlet)<\/p>\n

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List of Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars who have lectured at St. Olaf College<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Mar. 14, 2024: Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History, Louisiana State University<\/p>\n

Mar. 30, 2021: Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

Apr. 4-6, 2018: Thomas Laqueur,\u00a0Helen Fawcett Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

Mar. 3-4, 2014: \u00a0Christine Thomas, \u00a0Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

Feb. 23, 2012: \u00a0Charles M. Falco, Professor of Optical Science and Physics at the University of Arizona<\/p>\n

Mar. 18-19, 2010: \u00a0Andrew Odlyzko, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

Sept. 25, 2008: \u00a0Betty Smocovitis, Professor of Zoology and History at the University of Florida<\/p>\n

Mar. 15, 2006: \u00a0Raymond J. DeMallie, Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University<\/p>\n

Apr. 18, 2005: \u00a0Wendy Doniger, The Divinity School of the University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Nov. 7-8, 2002: \u00a0Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright & Vilas Prof. Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n

Nov. 12-13, 2001: Katherine A. Geffcken, Professor Emerita of Latin and Greek, Wellesley College<\/p>\n

Nov. 9-10, 2000: Eliana Rivero, Professor of Spanish & Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies & Latin American Studies, University of Arizona<\/p>\n

Nov. 15-16, 1999: Cornell Hugh Fleischer, Kanuni S\u00fcleyman Professor of Ottoman & Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

May 5-6, 1997: Douglass C. North, Luce Professor of Law and Liberty (Economics), Washington University (combined with visit to Carleton)<\/p>\n

Mar. 13-15, 1995: Linda Seidel, Professor of Art History, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Nov. 29-30, 1994: Porter M. Kier, Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution<\/p>\n

Sept. 17-18, 1992: Sidney W. Mintz, William L. Straus, Jr., Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

Apr. 12-14, 1992: Hyman Bass, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Mar. 11-12, 1991: Anne Firor Scott, W. K. Boyd Professor of History, Duke University<\/p>\n

Apr. 10-11, 1989: Jerome Kagan, Professor of Human Development, Harvard University–CANCELED<\/p>\n

Apr. 9-10, 1986: Roland Mushat Frye, Schelling Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Apr. 2-3, 1984: Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College<\/p>\n

Nov. 15-16, 1982: Robert B. Heilman, Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Washington<\/p>\n

Apr. 26-27, 1982: Herbert Solomon, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University<\/p>\n

Mar. 12-13, 1981: Howard Hibbard, Professor of Art History, Columbia University–CANCELED (for health reasons)<\/p>\n

Nov. 14-16, 1979: Anna J. Harrison, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College<\/p>\n

Mar. 19-20, 1979: Herbert F. York, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego–CANCELED (because of appointment as chief U.S. negotiator for Test Ban Talks)<\/p>\n

Apr. 27-28, 1978: Wayne C. Booth, Distinguished Service George M. Pullman Professor of English, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Apr. 27-29, 1977: Oscar Handlin, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor (American History), Harvard University<\/p>\n

Oct. 21-22, 1974: Hazel E. Barnes, Professor of Integrated Studies (Classics\/Philosophy), University of Colorado<\/p>\n

Nov. 12-13, 1973: James L. Gibbs, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University<\/p>\n

Apr. 9-10, 1973: Jeremy Paul Kagan, American Film Institute, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Oct. 8-9, 1970: Garrett Hardin, Professor of Human Ecology (Biology), University of California-Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

Mar. 6-7, 1969: Otto Luening, Co-director, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center,\u00a0Columbia University<\/p>\n

Feb. 26-27, 1968: Frederick Hard, Professor of English Literature, University of California-Santa Cruz<\/p>\n

Mar. 12-15, 1967: Robert Wauchope, Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University<\/p>\n

Apr. 20-22, 1966: Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, Harvard University<\/p>\n

Nov. 11-12, 1963: Lamar Dodd, Professor of Art History, University of Georgia<\/p>\n

Oct. 15-16, 1962: H.D.F. Kitto, Professor of Classics, University of Bristol<\/p>\n

Dec. 7-8, 1961: John Turkevich, Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University<\/p>\n

Mar. 27-30, 1960: Theodore M. Greene, Professor of Humanities (Philosophy), Scripps College<\/p>\n

Apr. 20-21, 1959: Ernest J. Simmons, Professor of Russian Literature, Columbia University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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