News & Events
The Blumenfeld Center for Ethics' Annual Film Series: Crisis Bedfellows: government and Business at the Movies
The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, September 1 @ 6 PM in the Commons, L 103-104: "Wall Street" - Panelists: Scott Graves (Political Science); Matt Lasner (History)
Tuesday, September 15 @ 6 PM in the Lofts classroom: "Barbarian Invasions" ("Les Invasions Barbares") - Panelists: Deirdre Oakley (Sociology); Jelena Subotic (Political Science)
Tuesday, September 29 @ 6 PM (tentatively in Commons, L 103-104): "Boiler Room" - Panelists: Carolyn Biltoft (History); Faidra Papavasilou (Anthroplogy).
The Blumenfeld Center for Ethics' Annual Film Series: The Darwin Sesquicentennial
POSTPONED!!!! Tuesday, October 13, tentatively set for 6 PM, Commons, L 103-104: "Inherit the Wind" - Panelists Jon Herman (Religious Study); Sarah Pallas (Biology).
"What Humanists Should Know About Islam and the Middle East”
A One-Day Seminar led by Juan R.L. Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Date: Friday, October 2, 2009
Among all of the scholars and commentators in the U.S. who have written and spoken about Islam and the Middle East, Dr. Juan R.L. Cole stands out for his prodigious historical and cultural knowledge, his mastery of the pertinent languages, and above all, his incisive and reasoned assessment of matters whose discussion is too often enveloped in ignorance and irrationality.
The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics and the Middle East Institute are pleased to announce that Dr. Cole will be visiting GSU in order to discuss his work with our Arts and Sciences faculty. The seminar will take place on October 2, 9:30am to 4:30pm. There will be two morning sessions and two afternoon sessions. The discussions will center on readings from two of Dr. Cole’s books, _Sacred Space and Holy War_ and _Engaging the Muslim World_. Please obtain your own copy of the later book for the seminar. See the schedule below for the topics and readings for each session.
The event is open to regular GSU faculty. Registration is required. If you do not wish to attend all of the sessions, you may register for those which you would like to attend. Space is limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you would like to participate, please send an email to that effect to: kkooy@gsu.edu. In your email, please be sure to indicate which sessions you would like to attend and also include your department and title.
This seminar is the third of a series, entitled "What Humanists Should Know About..." The previous seminars were led by Jared Diamond, UCLA, and Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University.
For further information, please contact me at aaltman@gsu.edu.
Andy Altman to recieve NEH grant!
Andrew Altman, Director of Research for the Ethics Center, has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to co-direct a summer seminar in 2010 on the topic ‘Liberal Democracy and the Global Order.’ Dr. Altman and his co-director, Christopher H. Wellman, will lead 15 college faculty chosen from a pool of applicants in the philosophical study of the nature, value and limits of liberal democracy in the globalized world of the 21st century. The seminar will last for four weeks and will take place at Washington University, St. Louis.
Manuscript Workshop on Loren Lomasky and Fernando Teson's tentatively titled Global Freedom.
May, 2010.
Scheduled discussants:
Andrew Altman (Philosophy, GSU)
N. Scott Arnold (Philosophy, UAB)
Andrew I. Cohen (Philosophy, GSU)
Andrew J. Cohen (Philosophy, GSU)
William Edmundson (Philosophy, Law, GSU)
Claire Finkelstein (Philosophy, Law, U Penn)
Christie Hartley (Philosophy, GSU)
Peter Lindsay (Poli Sci, Philosophy, GSU)
George Rainbolt (Philosophy, GSU)
