| For release March 12, 2008 Grawemeyer Award winners to give free public talksLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Recipients of the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Awards will discuss their winning works on UofL's campus and at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in mid-April. The Grawemeyer prizes, five awards of $200,000 each, are given each year for outstanding ideas or works in music composition, world order, psychology, education and religion. UofL and the seminary jointly administer the religion award. Here are details on the free public talks: Albert Bandura of Stanford University will speak April 16 at noon in Floyd Theater, Swain Student Activities Center. He won the psychology award for showing that having self-confidence can make us better people. Edward Zigler and Walter Gilliam of Yale University and Stephanie Jones of Fordham University will speak April 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the University Club Ballroom. All three won the education award for advocating universal preschool. Margaret Farley of Yale Divinity School will speak April 16 at 7 p.m. in the seminary's Caldwell Chapel. She won the religion award for her book maintaining that justice is an essential part of sexual ethics. Peter Lieberson, an American composer, will speak April 18 at 3 p.m. at Comstock Hall, School of Music. He won the music award for writing "Neruda Songs," a song cycle that became a parting gift to his dying wife. Philip Tetlock of University of California, Berkeley, who won the world order award for arguing that political pundits should be accountable for their predictions, will give his lecture at 1 p.m., April 17, at Rauch Planetarium. For more information, call Allan Dittmer at 502-852-5198. Related Links |