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1997-98 Colloquium Series: "The Question of Evil"

October 16	Berel Lang, Trinity College "Evil Inside and Outside History: The Post-Holocaust vs. the Post-Modern"
November 18	Roger Shattuck, Boston University "Great Faults and 'Splendidly Wicked People"
December 11	David Morris "The Plotting of Suffering: AIDS and Evil"
March 5	Larry Bouchard, University of Virginia "Contingency and Culpability: Is the Post-Modern Post-Tragic?"
March 19	Richard Kearney, Boston College and University College Dublin "Others and Aliens: Between Good and Evil"
April 9	Thomas Cushman, Wellesley College "The Reflexivity of Evil: Modernity and Moral Transgression in the War in Bosnia"
April 23	Elaine Scarry, Harvard University "Beauty and Its Relation to Justice"

Selected papers from this colloquium series were published in the Summer 2000 issue of The Hedgehog Review.

Longer versions of selected papers were published in Jennifer L. Geddes, ed., Evil After Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, and Ethics (Routledge, 2001).

Each spring the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture sponsors a series of public lectures, held at the University of Virginia. The purpose of these colloquia is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for exploring and discussing issues of enduring significance and common concern. Often working together with other departments and programs at the University of Virginia, these colloquia address tough issues of abiding importance in ways that challenge prevailing assumptions and categories in the academy.