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our annual Back-to-School lecture
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Michael
Burger, an expert in medieval
history and Professor of History at Auburn
University in Montgomery, Alabama, will
give this year's Back-to-School
Lecture. Professor Burger writes,
The university is a medieval creation,
originally conceived as being under
faculty (or even student) control,
control that the power politics of the
time made possible. Universities
may survive in the modern world, but a
lot has changed since the Middle
Ages. Political and legal
developments since the Middle Ages mean
that faculty do not so clearly run
modern universities, even though they
still claim to—a source of real
conflict. Despite this lack of
clarity, and despite current concerns
that many universities are on the brink
of disaster, universities have had
astonishing longevity; it may be too
soon to conclude that their antique
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FREE and
ONLINE
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
5:30-7:00 pm CDT
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Sign in 5:00-5:30 pm for
informal cigar and cocktail chatter.
The event will be
called to order at 5:30.
There will be a Q&A session
following the lecture. Audience
participation is invited.
The event will conclude at 7 pm.
An optional cocktail party and
discussion will continue after the
event.
Be sure to have your
cocktails and cigars at ready
hand.
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Now Professor of
History, Michael Burger
served as dean of the School of
Liberal Arts and then the College
of Arts and Sciences (2009-2017)
at Auburn University in
Montgomery. He is the author
of Bishops, Clerks, and
Diocesan Governance in
Thirteenth-Century England:
Reward and Punishment (2012)
and The Shaping of the West
(2d ed., 2013), and many academic
articles on medieval
history. Professor Burger
has edited a primary source
collection, Sources for the
History of Western Civilization
(2015). He holds a Ph.D. and
M.A. in medieval history from the
University of California, Santa
Barbara, and a B.A. in history
from Michigan State University. He
serves as the president of
Episcopus: the Society for the
Study of Bishops and Secular
Clergy in the Middle Ages. "But my
chief claim to fame is having once
lived in a former twelfth-century
chapel that had been converted
into a residence."
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About
the
Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND
greatest traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of intellectual,
social, legal, artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and extends it
with its Informal Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which cigars,
and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important
component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the
Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the
secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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