{"id":26446,"date":"2024-04-04T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26446"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:11:34","slug":"2024-charles-hill-moffat-lecture-ten-years-past-galileos-middle-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/2024-charles-hill-moffat-lecture-ten-years-past-galileos-middle-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture: \u201cTen Years Past Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The 2024 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture promises an engaging evening with Dr. Alice Dreger, esteemed historian, journalist, and author. Dreger will deliver her thought-provoking lecture titled \u201cTen Years Past Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger: What Have We Learned from a Decade of Campus Conflicts?\u201d at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are especially excited to have such a renowned and relevant scholar as this year\u2019s Moffatt Lecturer,\u201d said Greta Rensenbrink, chair of the Department of History.<\/p>\n<p>In Dreger\u2019s work, Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger, she delved into the early history of what we now recognize as \u201ccancel culture\u201d within the fields of anthropology, psychology, and gender medicine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alice Dreger&#8217;s book, <em>Galileo&#8217;s Middle Finger<\/em>, shows us the moral and scholarly reasons why we have to follow the evidence, wherever it leads us, even if it offends,\u201d said Chris White, a professor in the Department of History.<\/p>\n<p>Dreger is a Guggenheim Fellow, and author of &#8220;Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar\u2019s Search for Justice&#8221;, published by\u00a0Penguin Press. The book was named a New York Times Editors\u2019 Choice. Her work championing free speech and open inquiry in academia led to her receiving the\u00a0Heterodox Academy\u2019s inaugural Courage Award, and she now serves on that organization\u2019s\u00a0Advisory Council. Learn more at her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/alicedreger.com\">alicedreger.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture promises an engaging evening with Dr. Alice Dreger, esteemed historian, journalist, and author. Dreger will deliver her thought-provoking lecture titled \u201cTen Years Past Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger: What Have We Learned from a Decade of Campus Conflicts?\u201d at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26448,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions\/26448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}