Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television

Tamara Matheson

Thursday, 05 Apr 2007 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Tamara Matheson is an assistant professor of modern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of modern France, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of the media. She is particularly interested in the influence of mass media and globalization on the construction of national identities. Matheson is the author of Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television, in which she examines the role television has played in constructing the image of the "intellectual" and defining that image as one central to French national identity.

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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.

Cosponsored By:

• Dept of History
• Dept of Philosophy and Religious Studies
• Dept of World Languages and Cultures
• French Club
• Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
• LAS Miller Lecture Funds
• Western European Studies Program
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)