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Belgian philosophy professor to present BYU lecture April 11

Brigham Young University will host a guest speaker from the Catholic University in Belgium for an Area Focus Lecture Monday, April 11, at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark Building.

Rudi Visker, a professor of contemporary philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, will present "Minor Differences: Europe between Freud and Lacan."

Visker's research interests are ethical engagement, human longing and French phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

He is the editor of Tijdschrift voor filosofie, the premier Dutch-language journal of philosophy which is published in Dutch, English and German.

For more information contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652 or for Kennedy Center events go online at kennedy.byu.edu.

Writer: James McCoy

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