IPR Announces Lecture Series and Course for 2009-10: Narrative Meaning-Narrative Wisdom

What is the role of story or narrative in human understanding?  What specific human cognitive or imaginative capacities are required for the construction and discernment of narrative patterns in our lives?

This series of lectures will explore the importance of philosophical and religious narrative in human self-understanding, culminating with a conference in Spring 2010 on philosophical and intellectual life-story writing.

As in previous years, the IPR will offer in parallel to the public lecture series a seminar course for graduates and undergraduates that will incorporate lectures in the course design (PH 456/656, RN 397/697 STH TT819).  For more information, contact Professor Allen Speight, Institute for Philosophy and Religion, casp8@bu.edu.

(Course times for Fall 2009: Wednesdays 5-8 pm)

The BU Institute for Philosophy & Religion Focal Conference on Reconciliation, Moral Obligation, and Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Conflict was held March 20-21.

Participants included:  Andrew Bacevich (Boston University); Anat Biletzki(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv); Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Ehud Eiran (Brandeis University, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs); Nir Eisikovits (Suffolk University); Charles Griswold (Boston University); William Long  (Georgia Institute of Technology); Alice MacLachlan (York University)' Padraig O'Malley (University of Massachusetts at Boston); Abdulaziz Sachedina (University of Virginia); Margaret Urban Walker (Arizona State University); Ajume Wingo (University of Colorado).

View photos and the schedule from the conference.