Oregon Humanities Center Feb. 25, 1998 Contact Holly Campbell (541) 346-1001 or Pauline Austin 346-3129 EUGENE--Classical scholar and author Eva Brann will deliver two free public lectures on the meaning of human time during March in Eugene and Portland as the Oregon Humanities Center's 1998 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities at the University of Oregon. At 4 p.m. on Monday, March 2, Brann will discuss "The Grounding of Time: Plotinus and Heidegger." Her talk, with a reception to follow at 5:30 p.m., is in the Alumni Lounge in Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St. on the UO campus. Then, at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, Brann will speak on "The Human Consequences of Thinking About Time." Her talk, with a reception opening at 5 p.m. and continuing after the lecture, will be in the Crystal Ballroom of the Benson Hotel, 309 S.W. Broadway in Portland. Brann has been dean of St. John's College in Annapolis since 1990. St. John's is a private liberal arts college which emphasizes the classics and humanistic education. Brann is concerned with the meaning of human time and how it relates to history. "People think time is just the ticking of the clock. Eva Brann examines how the way we experience time is shaped by our culture and at the same time shapes that culture," says Oregon Humanities Center director Steven Shankman. Brann is the author of four books, including "Paradoxes of Education in a Republic" and "The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance." She has published articles on Homer's "Odyssey," Thomas More's "Utopia," Jane Austen's novels, Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice," Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Kant's "Philosophy of Nature." Brann holds a degree in history from Brooklyn College and degrees in classics and archaeology from Yale University. She is a member of the Maryland Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. The Kritikos Professorship was created through a generous private gift, matched by state and National Endowment for the Humanities funds, to bring to Oregon speakers who share "a commitment to intellectual honesty and freedom" and "a recognition of the worth of open and honest civic discussion and critical analysis of differing viewpoints and values." Seating is limited and reservations are recommended for the Portland lecture. For reservations and accommodations related to disability, call the Oregon Humanities Center, (541) 346-3934. -30- #P-6067/A&E,PDX,Local,Special