The Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University
cordially invites you to the Upcoming Events:
Friday, September 26, 2008
Alfred Gusenbauer - Chancellor of Austria and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria
Richard Sennett - Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professsor of the Humanities at New York University
Chair: Ira I. Katznelson
6:00 PM
School of Management
Boston University
595 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor
Free and open to the public | Reception to follow
More Information: 617-358-2778 or ihs@bu.edu
This debate is taking place as part of the 4th Conference on Solidarity: Solidarity and Isolation. It focuses on the following questions: If social isolation is the converse of solidarity, what can we learn about the latter by exploring the former? How does the magnitude, and how do various patterns of social isolation affect a civic order that is premised on threshold levels of generalized solidarity based on trust, pluralism and toleration?
Elizabeth D. Amrien
Institute for Human Sciences
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-358-2778
Fax: 617-358-3584
eamrien@bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/ihs
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
6:30 PM
Kenmore Classroom Building
Boston University
565 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101
Our Innocence, Foreign Perversions:
Gender and Sexuality in Nationalist Discourse
Agnieszka Graff
Polish writer, translator, feminist and human rights activist. Since 2000, Graff has been an assistant
professor at the Center for American Studies at the University of Warsaw. She published her
best-selling first book, "Swiat bez kobiet "(A World without Women) in 2001.
In cooperation with the Women’s Studies Program at Boston University
Free and open to the public
Monday, April 28, 2008
6:30 PM
School of Management
Boston University
595 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th floor
Ethics of Atheism
Paolo Flores D'Arcais
Italian philosopher and editor-in-chief of MicroMega
Alan Wolfe
Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College
Free and open to the public ~ Reception to follow
Thursday, May 1, 2008
7:00 PM
School of Management
Boston University
595 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th floor
Fiction and Possibility
Magdalena Tulli
Polish author and translator
Lawrence Weschler
Writer and Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
In cooperation with the literary journal AGNI
Free and open to the public ~ Reception and book-signing to follow
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Info:
Tel: 617-358-2778
Fax: 617-358-3584
eamrien[at]bu.edu