The Working Group on Love and Justice has been meeting regularly under the direction of Nicholas Wolterstorff and Jennifer L. Geddes and is pleased to announce the Love and Justice Lecture Series, which will bring ten leading scholars to the University of Virginia in 2010.
 

Regina Schwartz will inaugurate the series with a lecture on “Loving Justice” in the Dome Room of the Rotunda, tomorrow, February 2, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture in the Lower West Oval Room. This talk is co-sponsored by UVa’s Departments of English and Religious Studies.

Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council, will give the second lecture in the series, “From Common Humanity to Humanitarian Obligation: Suffering Strangers, Progress, and Emergencies,” in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on Thursday, February 11, at 3:00 p.m. This talk is co-sponsored by UVa’s Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies.

Senior Fellow, Nicholas Wolterstorff, will speak on “The Use and Uselessness of Art” on Tuesday, February 23, 6:00 p.m., at the Yale Club in New York City. Please contact Ashley Berner for further information.

A Conference on Hannah Arendt is scheduled for April 1, 2010 in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. More information will be announced on our website in the coming weeks. For more information, please contact Jennifer L. Geddes.

Slavica Jakelić is spearheading a working group on Secularism in the Late Modern Age. Updates about the group can be found on their webpage.

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Professors Joseph Davis and Joshua Yates taught January-term classes here at the University of Virginia. Their classes were featured in UVA Today: Davis…> | Yates…>

Visiting Fellow Daniel Philpott, with Gerard Powers, has a book out with Oxford University Press, Strategies of Peace. He was recently interviewed on the Immanent Frame about his work.

Institute Faculty Charles Mathewes has a new book out with Wiley-Blackwell, Understanding Religious Ethics. This is the first book of its kind to offer a comparative framework for understanding the ethical teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.