University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann will deliver the last of three Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities and Arts. Her lecture is entitled "Extremism." A lecture discussion will take place at the Stanford Humanities Center the following day at 10:00 a.m.
Dr. Gutmann was inaugurated as Penn's eighth president in October 2004. She previously held the position of Provost at Princeton University, and was the Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences at U Penn and the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. Dr. Gutmann is the author and co-author of 15 books, most recently of "Identity in Democracy" and "Why Deliberative Democracy?"