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Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks will be delivering this year’s Fall Lectures on October 11, 12, 13, 2010. He will speak on Difference and Democracy in the Post-Secular World each day at 3:00 pm in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. Attendance is free of charge, but registration is requested.

Love and Justice Lecture Series audio recordings are available for Craig Calhoun and Jeffrie Murphy in our Media Library. The Fall 2010 schedule of lectures is available here.


The Hedgehog Review

The Hedgehog Review

Summer 2010 includes essays on “The Phantom Economy” by Robert Jackall, Caitlin Zaloom, and Philip Mirowski as well as a book forum on Research Fellow Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft, essays by Thomas DeGloma and Geoffrey Claussen, book reviews, and a gallery of the works of Karen Parker Lears. See the full table of contents >>

Craig Calhoun

Media Library

On April 1, 2010, scholars met in the Dome Room of the Rotunda for the conference: “Reading Hannah Arendt for the 21st Century.” Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Richard Bernstein, and Susannah Gottlieb delivered papers. Listen to their talks, with respondents, from our Media Library.

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