LITERATURE + LECTURES

Holocaust Museum Houston presents Reflections Upon Galatea, Tuesday, September 14, 2010, at  3:00 PM.  Location: MSB 3.001, Auditorium of The University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030.

John Lienhard, Ph.D., award-winning narrator of the public radio segment “The Engines of Our Ingenuity,” will present a lecture on “Reflections Upon Galatea,” a discussion of the literature of eugenics in connection with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library’s presentation of the traveling Holocaust Museum Houston Exhibit “How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination.”

Lienhard is the M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston. He has written and hosted nearly 2,000 episodes of “The Engines of Our Ingenuity,” produced by KUHF-FM, the University of Houston’s public radio station.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking will be available in Garage 4 of the TMC Campus. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 713-799-7169 or e-mail beatriz.varman@exch.library.tmc.edu.