Hi Honors Community!

This year we are fortunate to have Professor William (Bill) J. Peace joining the Honors program as the Watson Distinguished Professor of Humanities. Bill Peace has been teaching Honors classes in bio-ethics and disability rights, and many of you are familiar with his class this term, “Body Art & Modification”.

Honors has the privilege of co-sponsoring this year’s Watson Symposium in the Humanities along with many other schools, colleges, and departments that have a special focus on human rights, bio-ethics, and healthcare.

As part of this initiative, next Wednesday, April 2 at 6:45 in Watson Theater, Bill will be holding an informal viewing of the ground-breaking film “Lives Worth Living”.

“Lives Worth Living” first premiered on PBS in 2011, and is the first television history of the Disability Rights Movement. From the film’s website: “Lives Worth Living is a window into a world inhabited by people with an unwavering determination to live their lives like everyone else, and a look back into a past when millions of Americans lived without access to schools, apartment buildings, and public transportation – a way of life unimaginable today.”

Bill will lead a discussion at the close of the film. You can catch the trailer below! We hope you can make it.