CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will host Sanford J. Ungar, president emeritus at Goucher College in Baltimore, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, in Eben Holden. The event is free and open to the public.

Ungar’s lecture, titled “Can a Free Society Live with Free Speech,” will discuss the dilemmas and complexities of unfettered free speech, even as it is fundamental to American democracy and guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Ungar is a distinguished scholar-in-residence at Georgetown University, a Lumina Foundation fellow, and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. At both Georgetown and Harvard, he teaches a seminar for undergraduates on Free Speech.

He was also director of Voice of America from 1999 to 2001 and has written or edited six non-fiction books. During his journalism career, he was a staff writer for the Washington Post, Washington editor for The Atlantic, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, and co-host of “All Things Considered” on National Public Radio.

Ungar earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard and his master’s in international history from the London School of Economics.

For more information, contact the Academic Dean’s office at 229-5998.