“LOVE AND JUSTICE”

A lecture by philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff

When: Thursday, November 1, 2007 | 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Where: Dome Room, The Rotunda, UVa Grounds

Reception to follow in the Colonnade Club

Free and Open to the Public. For further information please contact IASC fellow Adam Kadlac.

Professor Wolterstorff discusses love and justice in our latest issue of Culture. Read interview >>

“ISLAM AND POLITICS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA”

Virginia Club of New York Speaker Series featuring IASC Faculty Fellow John Owen

When:  Monday, October 29, 2007 | Cocktails begin at 6:30 p.m., with talk to follow

Where: Virginia Club of New York at The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, NYC

Join Professor John M. Owen IV, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, for his discussion of cultural differences between Europe and America; ways in which political relations between Europe and America will be affected by demographic trends; and the interplay between religion and politics in Islamic and Western nations.

Reserve a spot ($10/member, $15/non-member) via phone (212-286-8744) or email. For further information please contact IASC fellow Ashley Berner.

The Hedgehog Review

The Summer 2007 issue of The Hedgehog Review, “The Uses of the Past,” discusses the ways in which the past is molded, reconfigured, justified, and shaped for human purposes—and the ways in which the past resists such malleability.

Essayist Svetlana Boym looks at the history of nostalgia and its role in contemporary life in “Nostalgia and Its Discontents.” Read article >>

Culture

Our second issue of Culture explores “Scientism”: the way scientific thought and discourse, propelled by new discoveries in the biological sciences and the expanding field of neuroscience, shape how we see and explain the world around us.

Matt Crawford reports on how brain scans are coming into our courtrooms. Read article >>

Kevin Seidel reviews recent fiction that explores genetics. Read article >>