THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
DEAN’S LECTURE SERIES
FALL 2016
Reading Thoreau
in the 21st Century
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Since its publication in 1849, Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil
Disobedience” has influenced protestors, activists, and political
thinkers all over the world, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin
Luther King, Jr. Professor Taylor will address the question: What does
Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” still have to teach us
more than a century and a half after it was first published?
Bob Pepperman Taylor joined the University of Vermont Department of Political Science
in 1986. He teaches courses in political theory and the history of political thought.
His publications include seven books, most recently The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau’s
Civil Disobedience, and the new Broadview edition of Civil Disobedience (forthcoming).
His awards include the University of Vermont Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award,
a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the 2016-17 University
Scholar Award, and the 2016 UVM George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award.
Date
October 6, 2016
Time
4:00 p.m.
Location
Memorial Lounge, Waterman
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or artists and who translate that knowledge into stimulating teaching.
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