Event Details - Hallie Lecture: Why We Censor from the Inquisition to the Internet

THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS ANNUAL

HALLIE LECTURE

"Why We Censor from the Inquisition to the Internet" 

with Ada Palmer 

Ada Palmer is a cultural and intellectual historian focusing on radical thought and the recovery of the classics in the Italian Renaissance.

She works on the history of science, religion, heresy, freethought, atheism, censorship, books, printing, and on patronage and the networks of power and money that enabled cultural creation in early modern Europe.

She teaches in the History Department at the University of Chicago, and her first book is Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance.