UC Berkeley history professor Thomas Laqueur is due on campus June 1 to deliver the 18th annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture.

The evening program is free and open to the public, and organizers noted that Laqueur’s lecture, “The Work of the Dead: Churchyards and Cemeteries in the Making of Modern Europe,” will be aimed at a lay audience rather than academic specialists.

Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of History. British history is his primary field of study.

He has authored numerous critically acclaimed works, including Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud.

Colleagues describe Lunn, who died in 1990 after a 20-year career in the UC Davis Department of History, as an esteemed teacher and mentor, and a distinguished scholar in the field of modern European intellectual history.

Lunn authored Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer (1973) and Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno (1982). Both focused on the relations of intellectuals to working people and to popular culture, and were widely acclaimed.

Laqueur’s talk is scheduled to take place in the AGR Room at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, starting with refreshments at 7 p.m. The lecture is scheduled from 7:30 to 9, with a reception will follow.

UC’s Bioengineering Symposium returns to Davis.

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