If you are in New York City, please consider joining us for dinner and discussion with Research Fellow Matthew Crawford on his book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Contact Ashley Berner for further information.

2009-10 Institute Fellows gathered on Friday, September 4, 2009, for a beginning of the year conference. Visiting Fellows Regina Schwartz and Dan Philpott presented papers as well as Director Jennifer Geddes and Postdoctoral Fellow Ed Gitre. See a full listing of our 2009-10 fellows.

Regina Schwartz, Visiting Fellow and Professor of English at Northwestern University, has a recent book out with Stanford University Press, Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World.

Other recent publications by IASC fellows include Asher Biemann’s Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism (Stanford) and Talbot Brewer’s The Retrieval of Ethics (Oxford).

The Hedgehog Review (Order here)

The Fall 2009 issue of The Hedgehog Review will be available soon, with essays on cosmopolitanism by Anthony Smith and Seyla Benhabib, an interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah, and poems by James Dickey and Wislawa Szymborska.

Renew your subscription today so you don’t miss an issue. Renewing is easy to do online! And look for our $8 back issue sale on our website, www.hedgehogreview.com, coming soon!

Culture

With essays on our 21st-century knowledge economy, secularism and the novel, and the “new” no religionists, our final issue of Culture is not to be missed.

Have you enjoyed reading Culture? If so, you'll love the expanded range and readability of The Hedgehog Review, when Culture editor Joseph Davis and current Hedgehog Review editor Jennifer Geddes join forces in 2010. Subscribe to The Hedgehog Review for 2010 to see what all the excitement is about.