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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Public Lecture: "The Islamic World and the Radical Enlightenment: Toleration, Freethinking and Personal Liberty"
4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall
 
In the 1660s and onward, the Radical Enlightenment pushed for full freedom of thought, religious freedom, and personal liberty together with democracy and the principle of equality.  In this lecture, Jonathan Israel will address how this part of the Western Enlightenment used medieval Islamic freethinkers and their ideas, and interpreted the special features of Islamic society and politics to illustrate and broaden its own arguments for transforming the Western World.  In recent years, this intellectual movement has been much more intensively studied and better understood, and this lecture -- the outgrowth of a highly innovative colloquium recently held at the Institute, Islamic Freethinking and Western Radicalism -- will highlight recent research into what might be broadly termed the Democratic Enlightenment. 
 
This lecture is presented with support provided by the Dr. S.T. Lee Fund for Historical Studies. 

This lecture is free and open to the public.  Tickets are not required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

 
Monday, June 2 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Special Conference: "Justice, Culture and Tradition"
Wolfensohn Hall 
 
For the agenda, to register, and for more information, please visit the conference web page hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
 
This event is free and open to the public; registration is requested.  Seating is on a first come, first served basis
 
The work of Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, will be recognized at a conference that will explore his contributions to the ethical and political philosophy of the twentieth century.  A range of speakers and talks will offer penetrating discussion into Walzer's broad philosophical interests and how these ideas intersect and interrelate. Walzer has written extensively on a variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy. His most acclaimed work to date, Just and Unjust Wars (1977), is the classic contemporary text on the morality of war.
 
The conference is organized by Professor Yitzhak Benbaji of Bar-Ilan University and Shalom Hartman Institute. The conference was made possible by the generous support of the following: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung; Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Institute for Advanced Study; Shalom Hartman Institute; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law; and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

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