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CSWR events are free and wheelchair accessible.
May
Keynote address to begin at 4 pm
on May 12
Conference to resume on May 13, 8:30 am-5:30 pm
May 12-13 Conference: Rethinking the Human
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue
In our globalized world, seemingly different conceptions of human nature and human values raise critical questions as to whether universal and partisan claims, interests, and perspectives can be reconciled, whether interreligious and intercultural conversations can have a positive effect on building human community, and whether a pluralistic ethos can effectively transcend the uncompromising notions now current as to what is true, good, necessary, just, and real. This conference invites intellectuals in religious studies, the humanities, and the social sciences to offer historical and contemporary insights into how these issues might be usefully explored and practically resolved.
Registration is full for this event.
Keynote speaker:
- Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Harvard University; director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University; and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College, London
Conference presenters:
- Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Michael Puett, Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
- John P. Reeder, Jr., Visiting Professor of Ethics, Harvard Divinity School
- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
- Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University in the City of New York
- Charles Hallisey, Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School
