Kevin Corrigan, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, will present Love and Myth in Plato’s Dialogues: the Symposium and Republic.

This lecture series, dedicated to the memory of John Turner, Cotner Professor of Religious Studies and Mach Chair in the Classics and Religious Studies Department, will serve as an annual forum in which to present important research in Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Dr. Turner was a member of the faculty from 1976 until his death in October 2019. He was an internationally known and respected scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Gnostic tradition, and the thought of Middle Platonists and Plotinus.