UBC ARTS ONE 50TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Sander Gilman, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Sander Gilman is a prominent cultural and literary historian and author or editor of over ninety books. He wrote the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane (1982), and Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (2016).
Gilman has held distinguished professorships at Cornell University, University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago, where he created the “Humanities Laboratory. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto (1997), elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000), an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007), and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).