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2001-2002
Convocations
Address–
"Global Duties: Western Philosophy's Problematic Legacy" by
Martha S. Nussbaum:
8
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13
Finney Chapel
West Lorain & North Professor Streets
Free public event
For more information
please call 440/775-8474.
Media Contact:
Scott.Wargo@oberlin.edu
http://www.oberlin.edu.
Sponsored by the Finney Lecture committee with support from the William
and Flora Hewlett Foun-dation and the Office of the President of Oberlin
College.
PHILOSOPHER MARTHA NUSSBAUM TO SPEAK AT OBERLIN COLLEGE NOVEMBER 13
OCTOBER 29, 2001-- "Global Duties: Western Philosophy's Problematic Legacy" is the title of the address to be presented by philosopher Martha Nussbaum at 8:00 P.M., Tuesday, November 13 in Oberlin's Finney Chapel as part of the College's 2001-2002 Convocation Series.
The event is free and open to the public.
"The most prominent female philosopher in America" according to The New York Times -- Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she also holds appointments in the philosophy department and Divinity School. In addition, she serves as Associate in Classics and is affiliated with the areas of Southern Asian Studies and Gender Studies.
From 1987 to 1993, Nussbaum was a research adviser at the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki, a part of the United Nations University. She was educated at Wellesley College and New York University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown and Oxford universities, among others.
The scholar first attracted notice in 1987 with an attack on Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. She attracted notice again in 1999, for her criticism of radical feminist philosopher Judith Butler.
The author of numerous works, Nussbaum, in her 1997 Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Radical Reform in Higher Education, championed changes in the academy -- including the study of ethnicity, race, non-Western cultures, gender and sexuality -- from the perspective of classical scholarship.
Nussbaum also co-edited Clones and Cloning -- with Cass Sunstein, also a professor of law at The University of Chicago -- which includes contributions from lawyers, novelists and psychotherapists as well as from scientists. Feeling that scientists have dominated the stage long enough, the co-editors declare: "There are pressing philosophical, ethical and legal issues . . . We aim to broaden the public debate."
Her other publications include Aristotle's De Motu Animalium (1978), The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986), Love's Knowledge (1990), The Therapy of Desire (1994), Poetic Justice (1996), For Love of Country (1996), Sex and Social Justice (1998), Women and Human Development (2000), and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001).
Her current works in progress include Hiding From Humanity: Disgust and Shame in the Law (the Remarque Lectures delivered at NYU in 2001, under contract to Princeton University Press), and The Cosmopolitan Tradition (the Castle Lectures delivered at Yale University in 2000, under contract to Yale University Press).
In 2002 she will deliver the Tanner Lectures at the Australian National University in Canberra, under the title Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice.
Nussbaum has chaired the Committee on International Cooperation and the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Philosophical Association and has been a member of the Association's National Board. In 1999-2000 she was one of the three Presidents of the Association, delivering the Presidential Address in the Central Division.
The 2001-2002 Convocation series continues Oberlin 's long tradition of bringing prominent thinkers and performers to the college community to explore the critical issues of the day.
This year's program also includes addresses by Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, February 4; author, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie, March 5; civil rights leader Julian Bond, April 3; and organizational learning expert Paul Duguid, April 9.
Media Contact: Scott Wargo
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