A Lecture on the Value of the Humanities

  • April 27, 2016
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 CST
  • Damen Student Center, Multipurpose Room
  • Joyce Wexler, jwexler@luc.edu
  • Free
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    ¿The Humanities, Civic Education, and the Problem of the Political¿ A Lecture on the Value of the Humanities by Professor Danielle Allen

    Danielle Allen, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, is Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and professor in Harvard¿s Department of Government and Graduate School of Education. She is the author of five books, including Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education, and Our Declaration: a Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, which won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. Her upcoming book, Education and Equality, scheduled for release in 2016, offers a critical clarification of just how important education is to democratic life, as well as a stirring defense of the humanities. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a 2001 winner of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.