"The
New Religious Intolerance:
Overcoming
the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age "
Speaker:
Dr. Martha Nussbaum
Date:
Feb. 5th, 2013
Time:
6:00pm Reception, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Lecture and Q&A
or
watch live on Ustream channel "AICUSA"
This
lecture will be followed by a book signing.
RSVP REQUIRED
Speaker Bio:
Martha
Nussbaum received her BA from New York University (1969) and her MA and PhD from
Harvard (1972, 1975). She taught philosophy and classics at Harvard in the 1970s
and 1980s, before moving to Brown. Her 1986 book, The Fragility of Goodness, on
ancient Greek ethics, made her a prominent figure throughout the social sciences
and humanities. Nussbaum's other major area of philosophical work was on the
emotions, where she specifically defended a neo-Stoic approach.
From
1986 to 1993 Nussbaum was a research advisor at the World Institute for
Development Economics Research, a part of the United Nations University. She has
chaired the Committee on International Cooperation, the Committee on the Status
of Women of the American Philosophical Association and the Committee for Public
Philosophy. She has been a member of the Association's National Board. Professor
Nussbaum was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a
member of its Council. She is also a member of the American Philosophical
Society. In 2008 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
She has also been a member of the Board of the American Council of Learned
Societies. She has received honorary degrees from thirty-two colleges and
universities internationally.
Professor
Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics,
appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School and Divinity School. She is
an associate in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, a
member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and co-chair of the Human
Rights Program. She is the founder and coordinator of the Center for Comparative
Constitutionalism and co-director of the Center for Laws, Philosophy and Human
Values.
