ID 500 Lectures

Liah Greenfeld: On Intellectuals as a Class
Friday April 14, 2006, 10-12am
Photonics Center, Room #203
5, St Mary's Street

Liah Greenfeld: A Key to Your Mind?
Friday, April 20, 2007, 10-12 A.M.Photonics Center, Room #203
5, St. Mary's Street

Liah Greenfeld: The Cradle of Madness
Friday, April 11, 2008, 10-12 A.M. School of Management Room #220
595, Commonwealth Avenue

Socratic Conversations are workshops of the Institute for theAdvancement of the Social Sciences, intended as gymnastics for the brain of its members and guests. Speakers include faculty, graduate students, and free-floating intellectuals who come to air new ideas, which the audience then discusses. Unless otherwise indicated, the Socratic Conversations are held in Boston University, 745, Commonwealth Avenue, room STH 625.

Academic year 2004-2005

-Thursday, September 16 th, 7-9 p.m.
Liah Greenfeld (University Professor, BU)
Reflections on Kant's Antinomies  

-Thusday, September 30 th, 7-9 p.m.
Brad Hudson (Ph.D. Candidate, BU)
The Cultural Bases of Behavior.

-Thursday, October 14 th, 7-9 p.m.
Blanca Deusdad (Fulbright Scholar, Barcelona)
Political Charisma in Western Democraties.

-Thursday, October 28 th, 7-9 p.m.
Robert Strassler (Editor, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War)
The Landmark Herodotus.

-Thursday, November 4 th, 7-9 p.m.
Clark Abt (Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
Harvard University; Chairman, Abt Associates, Inc.)
The Economic Impact of Nuclear and Biological Terrorism and Defenses Against Them.

-Thursday, December 2 nd, 7-9 p.m.
Linda Brownson (Ph.D. Candidate, BU)
Globalization in Light of the Franco-American Mergers.

-Thursday, February 24 th, 6-8 p.m., room STH 325.
Martin Pearlman (Artistic Director, Boston Baroque)
A Performer’s View of Baroque Music.

-Thursday, March 17 th, 6-8 p.m., room STH 325.
Fr. Methodios Alexiou (Ph.D., University of Paris-Sorbonne)
What Do Orthodox Monks Have to Say to the Modern World:
Father Paisios of Mount Athos.

-Thursday, March 31 st, 7-9 p.m., room STH 325.
Vlada Brofman (Ph.D. Candidate, UNI, B.U.)
The Magic of Decadence: Poets Between Ideal and Abyss.

-Thursday, April 14 th, 7-9 p.m., room STH 325.
David Barron (B.A. Candidate, UNI, B.U.)
At the Intersection of Computer Science and Social Science:
Developing a New Tool for Learning Interconnectedness.

-Thursday, April 28 th, 7-9 p.m.
Karen Siegemund (Ph.D. Candidate, UNI, B.U.)
What Are Teens Reading and Why?

Academic year 2005-2006

-Monday, October 24, 6-8 p.m.
Eric Malczewski (Ph.D. Candidate, UNI, B.U.)
Casuistry and the Cannibals: The Form of Conscience in Robinson Crusoe.

-Monday, November 9, 6-8 p.m.
Jonathan Eastwood (Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University)
Some Problems With Benedict Anderson’s Account of Nationalism in Latin America.

-Friday, January 27, 6-8 p.m.
Vera Brofman (Professor of Psychology, Moscow Pedagogical University)
Coping With Trauma : Experiences From Beslan.

-Tuesday, February 28, 5-7 p.m.
Chandler Rosenberger (Lecturer in International Relations, B.U.)
“ Serbia Is Rising” National Dignity and Political Revolution.

-Monday, March 13, 6-8 p.m.
-Chikako Takeishi (Professor of Sociology, Chuo University, Tokyo)
Reformulating Japanese Cultural Sciences: the Attempt of the American Occupation After World War II.

-Monday, April 24, 3-5 p.m., room STH 325.
Jacques Rupnik (Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies and Visiting Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of Research, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris)
Balkan Dilemmas: Ethnonationalism, European Integration and the Case of Serbia and Kosovo.

Academic year 2006-2007

-Friday, October 28, 6-8 p.m.
Chikako Takeishi (Professor of Sociology, Chuo University, Tokyo)
Sociological Implications from Psychological Literature in Japan: Ressentiment and Mental Disorder

-Wednesday, November 15, 6-8 p.m.
Eric Malczewski (Ph.D. candidate, UNI, B.U.)
A Socratic Conversation on Annie Dillard's « Total Eclipse »