Events
Past Events
Workshop | 3 May to 4 May 2013
Culture and Catastrophe
Afternoon Tea | 1 May 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Fellows' Reception | 26 April 2013
Fellows Cocktail Hour
Afternoon Tea | 17 April 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea | 10 April 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Seminar | 5 April 2013
Leonidas Donskis (Vytautas Magnus University, Philosophy)
Institute Seminar Series - "Modernity and Evil"
Lecture | 4 April 2013
Leonidas Donskis (Vytautas Magnus University, Philosophy)
Thursday Lecture - "Modernity and Evil"
Conference | 27 March to 29 March 2013
The Present Challenges and Believable Futures of Liberal Democracy
Seminar | 22 March 2013
Allan Boesak (Stellenbosch University, Theology)
Institute Seminar Series - "Deification, Demonization, and Reconciliation in South Africa: Will the Center Hold?"
Lecture | 21 March 2013
Allan Boesak (Stellenbosch University, Theology)
"Deification, Demonization, and Reconciliation in South Africa: Will the Center Hold?"
Seminar | 14 March 2013
João Carlos Espada (Catholic University of Portugal, Political Studies)
Institute Seminar Series - "European Disintegratrion? The Sources of Extremism"
Afternoon Tea | 6 March 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Seminar | 1 March 2013
Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University, History)
Institute Seminar Series - “Privacy”
Lecture | 28 February 2013
Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University, History)
Thursday Lecture - "The Beginnings of the 'End of Privacy' in the Modern U.S."
Seminar | 22 February 2013
Michael Barnett (The George Washington University, International Affairs and Political Science)
Institute Seminar Series - "Global Humanitarianism"
Lecture | 21 February 2013
Michael Barnett (The George Washington University, International Affairs and Political Science)
Thursday Lecture - "Can Humanitarianism Survive Globalization"
Afternoon Tea | 20 February 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Seminar | 15 February 2013
John Zammito (Rice University, History)
Institute Seminar Series - "Normativity and/in Nature: Why Think Them Together"
Lecture | 14 February 2013
John Zammito (Rice University, History)
Thursday Lecture - “Naturalism and the Claims of Philosophy to Authoritative Knowledge”
Fellows' Reception | 8 February 2013
Fellows Cocktail Hour
Lecture | 1 February 2013
Leon Botstein (Bard College, President)
Friday Lecture - "Resisting Complacency, Fear and the Philistine: Modernization, Tradition, and the University"
Afternoon Tea | 23 January 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea | 9 January 2013
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Seminar | 7 December 2012
Colin Bird (U.Va., Political Philosophy, Policy & Law)
Institute Seminar Series - “Humanism and Dignity”
Holiday Tea | 6 December 2012
Institute Holiday Tea Gathering
Afternoon Tea | 28 November 2012
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Fellows' Reception | 16 November 2012
Fellows Cocktail Hour
Conference | 15 November 2012
Culture of American Families Conference
Culture of American Families Conference
Seminar | 9 November 2012
Allan Megill (UVa, History)
Institute Seminar Series - “History, Theoreticism, and the Limits of ‘the Postsecular’”
Afternoon Tea | 31 October 2012
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Seminar | 26 October 2012
Jennifer Rubenstein (UVa, Politics)
Institute Seminar Series - “Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGO’s”
Fellows' Reception | 19 October 2012
Fellows Cocktail Hour
Lecture | 8 October 2012
E.J. Dionne
Lecture in collaboration with The Miller Center
Seminar | 8 October 2012
E.J. Dionne
Seminar in collaboration with The Miller Center
Afternoon Tea | 3 October 2012
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Colloquia | 28 September 2012
Krishan Kumar (UVa, Sociology)
Institute Seminar Series - “The Return of Civilization – and of Arnold Toynbee?”
Afternoon Tea | 19 September 2012
Fellows Afternoon Tea
Seminar | 14 September 2012
Alon Confino (UVA, History)
Institute Seminar Series - “A World Without Jews”
Colloquium | 7 September 2012
Dan Turello, Ben Snyder, William Hasselberger, Matt Crawford
Fellows Fall Colloquium
Symposium | 6 June to 7 June 2012
The Global Culture Project
Citizenship and the Good World
Public Lecture | 19 April 2012
Michael Ignatieff
Reimagining a Global Ethic
Conference | 19 April to 21 April 2012
Organized by Joshua J. Yates
Globalization and the Common Good
Public Lecture | 1 December 2011
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Philip Rieff and the Question of the Inner Life
Public Lecture | 17 November 2011
Hans Joas
The Sacredness of the Person: On the Origins of Human Rights
Conference | 4 November 2011
Organized by Neslihan Cevik
Roundtable on Turkey
Public Lecture | 3 May 2011
Ashley Berner
Re-Visiting American Education
Public Lecture | 24 March 2011
John Meyer
Actors and Organizations as Cultural Forms in World Society
Public Lecture | 10 February 2011
Chad Wellmon
Why Google Isn't Making Us Stupid
Conference | 29 January 2011
Organized by Slavica Jakelic
Secularism in the Late Modern Age
Public Lecture | 2 December 2010
Christopher Eberle
The Soldier's Rationale
Public Lecture | 16 November 2010
Edward J.K. Gitre
Boredom in the Late Modern World
Public Lecture | 11 November 2010
Leora Batnitzy
The Priorities of Love and Justice: Some Reflections on Judaism, Christianity, and the Question of Human Anthropology
Art Exhibit | 6 November to 30 November 2010
Karen Parker Lears
The Artwork of Karen Parker Lears
Public Lecture | 28 October 2010
Jean Porter
Beyond Self-Sacrifice: The Recovery of Political Virtue
Public Lecture | 21 October 2010
Jeremy Waldron
Rescuing Impersonality: The Myth of Mrs. Jellyby
Public Lecture | 11 October to 13 October 2010
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Difference and Democracy in the Post-Secular World
Public Lecture | 30 September 2010
John Brewer
Compromise after Conflict
Public Lecture | 16 September 2010
M. Cathleen Kaveny
Love, Law, and Justice: The Strange 'Divorce' Case of Watts v. Watts
Public Lecture | 26 April 2010
John M. Owen, IV
What History Teaches Us About Radical Islam
Public Lecture | 5 April 2010
Thomas Brudholm
The Anatomy of Hatred
Conference | 1 April 2010
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Richard Bernstein, and Susannah Gottlieb
Reading Hannah Arendt for the 21st Century
Public Lecture | 18 March 2010
Jeffrie Murphy
The Case of Dostoevsky's General—Reflections on Forgiving the Unforgivable
Public Lecture | 23 February 2010
Nicholas Wolterstorff
The Use and Uselessness of Art
Public Lecture | 12 February 2010
Craig Calhoun
From Common Humanity to Humanitarian Obligation: Suffering Strangers, Progress, and Emergencies
Public Lecture | 2 February 2010
Regina Schwartz
Loving Justice
Public Lecture | 18 November 2009
Adam Seligman
Modernity and Sincerity: Problem and Paradox
Public Lecture | 20 October 2009
Matthew Crawford
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Public Lecture | 19 May 2009
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Beyond Tolerance: Honoring Deep Difference in the Late-Modern World
Public Lecture | 1 April 2009
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights
Public Lecture | 3 February 2009
Charles Mathewes
American Faith: Going Strong, Going Down, or Going to the Mall?
Public Lecture | 2 October 2008
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Myth of the Sovereign Self
Public Lecture | 22 September 2008
Felicia Wu Song
Bowling Alone, or Online Together?
Public Lecture | 12 May 2008
James Davidson Hunter
Understanding Difference
Public Lecture | 28 February 2008
Jonathan Judaken
Rethinking the "New Antisemitism" in a Global Age
Public Lecture | 25 January 2008
James Bryant
Human Flourishing in W. E. B. DuBois’ Late Sociological Imagination
Public Lecture | 1 November 2007
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Love and Justice
Public Lecture | 29 October 2007
John M. Owen, IV
Islam and Politics in Europe and America
Conference | 5 March 2007
Richard Bernstein, Sarah Coakley, Russell Hittinger, Oliver O’Donovan, Charles Reid, Miroslav Volf, Chris Eberle, and Paul Weithman
Justice
Reading | 2 February 2007
U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall
Public Lecture | 8 November 2006
Adam Michnik
Democracies, Dictatorships, and Intellectuals
Public Lecture | 7 September 2006
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
Religion and Politics
Colloquia | 15 March 2006
Telling Suffering: Pain, Trouble, Trauma, and Their Stories
Conference | 29 January 2006
José Casanova, Talal Asad, and Pippa Norris
After Secularization
Conference | 12 October 2005
Thrift and American Culture
Conference | 1 June to 3 June 2005
The Vienna Conferences
Colloquia | 31 March 2005
Joseph Epstein, Wendy Kaminer, and Loren Glass
Celebrity Culture
Public Lecture | 20 October to 21 October 2004
David Brooks, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Todd Gitlin, and John Searle
Discourse and Democracy
Colloquia | 2 April to 3 April 2004
The Fate of the Arts
Reading | 2 April 2004
Adam Zagajewski
Public Lecture | 18 November 2003
Khaled Abou El Fadl, René Girard, Danièle Hervieu-Léger, and Mark Juergensmeyer
Religion, Justice, and Violence
Colloquia | 13 February to 10 April 2003
The Commodification of Everything
Public Lecture | 3 November 2002
Lionel Jospin, Samuel Huntington, and Robert Kaplan
America in the World
Colloquia | 7 February to 28 March 2002
Technology and the Human Person
Colloquia | 1 February to 15 February 2001
Exploring the Possibilities of Pragmatism
Colloquia | 2 March to 4 April 2000
What's the University For?
Colloquia | 21 January to 13 April 1999
Diversity Reconsidered
Colloquia | 12 November to 1 March 1997
The Question of Evil
Colloquia | 18 October to 27 February 1996
The Problem of Identity
Conference | 15 September 1996
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Sandel, Richard Sennett, John Gray, Lawrence Friedman, Neil Postman, William Galston, John Patrick Diggins, and Richard Merelman
Democracy on Trial
Who We Are
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community at the University of Virginia committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the public good.
