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Each year, the Kahn Institute and its long- and short-term projects present a series of lectures by distinguished visiting scholars and artists. Details about lectures by this year's visitors appear below, along with links to audio files of past lectures and schedule information for upcoming events.
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Author and musician Amit Chaudhuri, Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, explores the advent of specific terrains in writing in Indian modernity, with special attention paid to Kipling, the English language, Tagore, and Bengal, and how this sense of terrain arose from the new significance of observation and also from strategic evasions, neither colonized nor colonizer wholly wishing to acknowledge each other. This lecture is presented by the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute project Renaissances: A Multiplicity of Rebirths.
4:30 pm Neilson Browsing Room, Neilson Library
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What leads groups and individuals to harm to others? Ervin Staub, Professor Emeritus and Found Director of the Doctoral Program in the Psychology of Peace and Violence at UMass identifies sources of and motivations behind genocide, mass killing, terrorism and general violence between groups. He also examines ways to prevent evil acts and build peaceful societies, including humanizing the "other" and raising inclusively caring children, helping people heal from past victimization, and developing constructive values and institutions.
This lecture is presented by the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute project Evil.
7:30 pm
Neilson Browsing Room, Neilson Library
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What is "radical evil"? Daniel Brandes, Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of King's College, Nova Scotia, examines that concept in the work of Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). In reflecting on her early doctrine of radical evil, one is struck by the absence in her work of any straightforward definition of the term. Professor Brandes explores how the determinations in Arendt's work can distinguish "radical evil" from rival conceptions (including her own doctrine of the "banality of evil").
This lecture is presented by the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute project Evil.
7:30 pm
Neilson Browsing Room, Neilson Library
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Click a link below to hear lectures from past years.
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