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Upcoming Event

James Bryant

“Human Flourishing in W. E. B. DuBois' (Late) Sociological Imagination”

Co-sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies

When:  Friday, January 25, 2008 | Time TBA

Where: TBA

Join us for this lecture by James Bryant, Assistant Professor of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross. Please check our website for further details.

Free and open to the public. For further information please contact IASC Director Jennifer Geddes.

Other News

Did you miss Nicholas Wolterstorff’s lecture, “Love and Justice”? You can now hear it on our website. Listen to lecture >>

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2008/9 postdoctoral fellowship applications are now being accepted. Applications are due January 15, 2008. More information can be found here.

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The Hedgehog Review announces its topics for 2008—the journal’s 10th year of publication: The Future, Utopia, and Dystopia; The Media and Politics; and Citizenship. Order a 2008 subscription or peruse our back issues online.

 Mohamed-Chérif Ferjani

From Our Recent Publications

The Hedgehog Review: The Uses of the Past

The Hedgehog Review (order here)

The Fall 2007 issue of The Hedgehog Review, “Human Dignity and Justice,” considers whether justice requires a belief in human dignity and what the bases of such a belief might be.

Philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that human rights documents are based on an assertion of human dignity, but leave open the basis for belief in that dignity. Read article >>
Culture

Culture (order here)

In our Fall 2007 issue of Culture, Institute Fellow David Franz comments on the utopian ideal of the cubicle. Read article >>

Culture Notes

Book Review of Kristen Deede Johnson’s Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism

John Sullivan

The Heythrop Journal – November 2007

Former IASC Fellow Kristen Deede Johnson’s first book receives a well-deserved complimentary review. Johnson is now Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hope College.

“Favoritism Cannot Be Tolerated”: Challenging Protestantism in America’s Public Schools and Promoting the Neutral State

Kevin M. Schultz

American Quarterly – September 2007

The Supreme Court refused the Gideons (and their Bibles) access to American public schools in the early 1950s. Former IASC Fellow Kevin Schultz, now Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, re-examines this case and its implications.

Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay

Slavica Jakelić and Jessica Starling

Journal of the American Academy of Religion – March 2006

This bibliographic essay, co-written by IASC Co-Director Slavica Jakelić, provides a thorough and articulate introduction to the modern study of religion.

Stanford University Commencement Speech

Dana Gioia

Stanford News Service – June 17, 2007

The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts argues for an American education that opens worlds of beauty to children.

Suffering Differently

Ethan Watters

The New York Times Magazine – August 12, 2007

Although we often assume human reactions are similar across time and space, cultures respond to trauma differently. American therapists working abroad are learning to respect these differences.

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