Inaugural Lecture: The Function of Poetics in the University

UHI Millennium Institute Executive Office
Ness Walk, Inverness
4.30pm
Free, booking required

Professor Kenneth White will present his inaugural lecture entitled “The function of poetics in the university” at the University of the Highlands and Islands Executive Office. In the first part of this lecture, Kenneth White will present a comprehensive view of the situation and perspectives of the university within contemporary society and civilization, bringing in critiques and propositions from Nietzsche on, including his own involvement since the late sixties.

In a second part, he will examine the traditional place of the Arts Faculty as working, apart from the specialized sciences, but not in ignorance of them, at the more general field of what is called culture, a term requiring at this moment both redefinition and redirection, along with cognate notions such as humanism.

For more information or to book contact Pual Ellison on 01463 279344 or email paul.elison@uhi.ac.uk . Visit the UHI Website.