DATE: Noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, April 21, 2011.

EVENT: University of Michigan professor Wayne Baker is the first speaker in a planned series of ISR Director’s Lectures on social science topics relevant to contemporary social issues. Baker’s presentation is titled “Are there core American values?”

The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are presented by James S. Jackson, director of the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR).

Baker is the Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is leading the Americans’ Evolving Values project at the Institute for Social Research, where he is a faculty associate. He blogs daily about values and ethics in America at www.OurValues.org. His books include “America?s Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception” (Princeton University Press 2005).

PLACE: Room 6050, U-M Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor campus