Monday, February 18

The Ordeal of Robert Oppenheimer:The Moral Dimension of the Nuclear Age

Clay Jenkinson, Humanities Scholar in Residence

7:30 p.m., Council Chamber, Templeton

Free and open to the general public.

Clay Jenkinson returns to Lewis & Clark this semester in the guise of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb"--a complex and deeply moral man who was first praised for his role in successfully developing the bomb and then persecuted for not supporting further development of such instruments of mass destruction and terror.Through first person historical interpretation, Jenkinson has mastered the life, achievements, and visions of the contemporary physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer whose work has had a profound influence on our lives. Clay Jenkinson holds deGrees in the humanities from the University of Minesota ad Oxford University and is a recipient of the highest honor bestowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities.