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Fellows Chris Nichols, Scott Nesbit, Andrew Witmer, and Wilson Brissett are moving on to positions with the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Richmond, the Penn Humanities Forum, and the United States Air Force Academy. Listen to interviews with these fellows (by clicking on their names) in which they talk about their projects, time at the Institute, and future plans.
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Recent Publications
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Director Jennifer Geddes’s The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. As one reviewer writes, “This is a book that needs to be read and re-read by ‘the powers that be’—and the rest of us as well.”
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The Hedgehog Review (Order here)
The latest issue of The Hedgehog Review explores how teenagers use the internet, the new political engagement of young voters, the withering of adulthood, the creation and history of “adolescence,” and the emergence of a world youth culture.
FREE PREVIEW: read Director Joe Davis’s essay, “Adolescents and the Pathologies of the Achieving Self.” Other individual essays can be purchased for just $2 each, and the whole issue is just $12. Use our online order form.
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2009 Books from IASC Faculty Fellows
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IASC has proven an intellectually fertile place for me, beyond anything I could have anticipated.
—Matthew Crawford
Research Fellow
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Culture
Notes
This section contains audios of interest from a variety of online sources.
James Davison Hunter
U of Montana President’s Lecture Series—April 6, 2009
Listen to a lecture given by Executive Director James Davison Hunter on decoupling “the public” from “the political.”
Patrick Deneen
IASC—May 9, 2009
Hear Patrick Deneen talk about the economy, embeddedness in communities, and moral language.
Iowa Public Radio—April 7, 2009
Listen to John Kiser discuss his book, Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader (1808–1883).
Abdulaziz Sachedina
IASC—April 1, 2009
University of Virginia Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina spoke to a group in New York City about interpretations of democracy and human rights in the Koran.
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