We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 16th season. On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m., author and journalist Donald Morrison will discuss the ways in which our current highly unequal society mirrors that of the late nineteenth century.
Donald Morrison is an author, journalist, and lecturer. In a long career at TIME, he wrote and edited in every department of the magazine. He was Editor of its Asian edition in Hong Kong and its European edition in London. A frequent lecturer and conference moderator, he has taught at New York University in London, Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Institut d’etudes politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.
Mr. Morrison is the European Editor of the London-based magazine PORT and a regular commentator for The Berkshire Eagle and NPR’s Robin Hood Radio. He has written for The Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Le Point, The New Republic, Smithsonian, and Quartz. He has been an author, co-author and editor of books on subjects as diverse as Chinese democracy and photojournalism. His The Death of French Culture, a 2009 French best-seller, was published in the U.S. in 2010. Mr. Morrison holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics.
Now in its 16th season, the Distinguished Lecture Series is organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin. Dr. Yudkin is a resident of the Berkshires and Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University. Every summer at the Lenox Library he presents the pre-concert lectures for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood season.
All programs in the Distinguished Lecture Series are free and open to the public.