ANN ARBOR—David A. Hollinger, the Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley, will deliver the ninth annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at the University of Michigan at 4 p.m. March 15 in the Rackham Amphitheater. His lecture is titled “University and Cosmopolitanism.”

The annual lecture, open to the public, is named for three faculty members—H. Chandler Davis, Clement L. Markert and Mark Nickerson—who in 1954 were called to testify before a Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities. All invoked constitutional rights and refused to answer questions about their political associations. The three were suspended form the University. Markert was subsequently reinstated and Davis and Nickerson were dismissed.

Hollinger, who was professor of history at the U-M until moving to Berkeley in 1992, will discuss some of the political dilemmas of universities in recent years, and will distinguish these dilemmas from those of the McCarthy Era. He also will address the contemporary cosmopolitan movement for its potential relevance to the defense of universities as distinctive institutions.

His books include “Science, Jews and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History,” “Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism,” “In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historigraphy of Ideas” and “Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal.”

Hollinger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. Other honors include receipt of the U-M’s Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, membership in the Institute for Advanced Study and selection as the History of Science Society‘s Distinguished Lecturer.

He is a trustee of the National Humanities Center, senior editor of The Dictionary of American History and the American National Biography.

Active in faculty governance throughout his academic career, Hollinger served on the Senate Advisory Committee for University Affairs while at the U-M. He is chair of the Budget Committee at Berkeley and a member of the Council of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.

This year’s lecture at U-M is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, the U-M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the Office of the President, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, and the Department of History.

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