The Hedgehog & Fox Faculty Lecture is returning to East Central University Wednesday, April 13, at 2 p.m. in the Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center. Dr. Josh Grasso will be giving the lecture.
The lecture – previously an annual event – is now named for former ³ÉÈËBÕ¾ Provost Duane C. Anderson, who will be on-hand to welcome guests to the event.
The purpose of the faculty lecture series is to provide a campus-wide forum on exemplary faculty research and other academic experiences. Dr. Anderson established the lecture series during his time at ³ÉÈËBÕ¾ and originally named it for an essay by Isaiah Berlin that he read in graduate school. The essay’s title, “The Hedgehog and The Fox,â€� was pulled from a line in the work of Greek poet Archilochus. That line roughly says, “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.â€�
The line may be taken to mean that “in the world of thinkers, there [are] those who pursue a single vision or idea round which they see and interpret everything, and there are those who pursue many visions and ideas, often unrelated and contradictory,� Berlin wrote, “The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes…�
For more information on the lecture, contact the ³ÉÈËBÕ¾ Office of Academic Affairs at 580-559-5204.