The Kentucky Author Form, in partnership with UofL's Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) will present a lecture and discussion by author and historian Jill Lepore on Monday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m.  at the CEL, rooms 191-197. The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Lepore, along with UofL professor Jasmine Farrier, will discuss Lapore's upcoming book,  The Deadline: Essays, a collection of 46 of her essays written over the last decade - including three unpublished ones – that offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness and unprecedented yet armed aimlessness.

Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018), an international bestseller, named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. She is currently working on a long-term research project called Amend, an NEH-funded data collection of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution. Much of Lepore's scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence.

Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005, writing about American history, law, literature and politics. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Journal of American History, Foreign Affairs, the Yale Law Journal, American Scholar and the American Quarterly; have been translated into many languages; and have been widely anthologized, including in collections of the best legal writing and the best technology writing. Her most recent book, IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, was longlisted for the National Book Award.

Lepore is the recipient of many honors and awards, including being acknowledged as finalist for the National Book Award; the National Magazine Award; and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize. She won the Anisfield-Wolf Award, for the best non-fiction book on race. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society. In 2021, she was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. She’s also the host of the podcast The Last Archive.

The Center for Engaged Learning is attached to Belknap Village South across from the Kurz Pavilion at the SAC.