Lecture by Professor Stephen E. Lucas

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Speaker: Professor Stephen E. Lucas, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lecture:The Genius of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’

Date: May 11, 2015

Time: 6: 30 pm- 8: 30 pm

Venue: Lecture Hall, teaching building, Jiulonghu Campus, Southeast University


Speaker’s Bio

Stephen E. Lucasis Professor of Communication Arts and Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor Lucas has been recognized for his work as both a scholar and a teacher. His first book,Portents of Rebellion: Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765-1776, received the Golden Anniversary Award of the National Communication Association in 1977 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His major articles include “The Schism in Rhetorical Scholarship” (1981), “The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism” (1988), “The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence” (1990), and “The Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence” (1998), for which he received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award of the National Communication Association. His most recent book is Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999(2009).

Professor Lucas has received a number of teaching awards, including the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Wisconsin and the National Communication Association’s Donald Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education.

Professor Lucas has directed the introductory public speaking course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1973. Over the years he has been responsible for numerous teaching innovations and has supervised the training of hundreds of graduate assistants. In addition to participating in public speaking workshops and colloquia at schools throughout the United  States, he has served as a judge for the major national English-language public speaking competitions in China, has lectured at numerous Chinese universities, and has conducted workshops for Chinese instructors on teaching public speaking.The Art of Public Speaking has been published in China both in translation and in English editions.

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