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The Mind of Modernity Blog features an exposition on Greenfeld’s forthcoming book, Mind, Madness and Modernity: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience

The Mind of Modernity blog is featuring a six part exposition of IASS Director Liah Greenfeld’s forthcoming book, Mind, Madness, and Modernity: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience, in which she presents a new framework for understanding mental illness. Over the next two weeks, Mind of Modernity will feature posts outlining the major elements […]

IASS Director Honored with Prestigious Appointment to Lingnan University, Hong Kong

IASS Director, Liah Greenfeld was recently named Distinguished Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong for a term of five years, starting May 2011. During yearly month long stays, Professor Greenfeld will deliver public lectures, faculty/graduate seminars, and chair weekly research discussions with colleagues of the Department.  Read […]

IASS Members present at the 2010 Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference

On April 15, 2010, IASS and Boston School of Nationalism Studies members Oyeshiku Carr, Chandler Rosenberger, Oliver Benoit, Katrina Demulling, and Nikolas Prevelakis came together for the panel, “Empires of the Mind: Intellectuals, Anti-Colonialism and Nationalism in the Global South,” at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention at Columbia University in New York. 

James Stergios Delivers BU’s UNI’s Convocation Speech

IASS Member James Stergios, delivered Boston University’s University Professors Program’s Convocation Speech on Sunday, May 16th, 2010.  A summary of the text of his advice to BU’s graduates can be found on his Boston Globe Blog, “Rock the Schoolhouse,” and the full text can be found here.

IASS Member Peter Baehr’s latest book now available

Peter Baehr’s latest book is Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and Social Science (Stanford University Press, 2010.) The book explores Arendt’s critique of sociology – especially sociological explanations of Bolshevism and National Socialism – and the response to that critique of contemporaries such as David Riesman, Raymond Aron, and Jules Monnerot.

IASS Members Discuss Liah Greenfeld’s Theories at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference

At the April, 2009, Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University, IASS members Jonathan Eastwood,  Nikolas Prevelakis, Oliver Benoit, Katrina Demulling, Oyeshiku Carr, and Chandler Rosenberger participated in the panel “A World of Nations:  Applying the Theories of Leah Greenfeld to Comparative Politics.”  They discussed how Greenfeld’s theories on nationalism […]

Liah Greenfeld presents her new work on mental illness at the University of Alabama

Renowned social scientist Liah Greenfeld will receive the 2008 UAB Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prize and present a free, public lecture 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5 in the Alys Stephens Center Jemison Concert Hall. Greenfield’s analysis of modern culture and mental disease is examined in her lecture, “Madness in Modern Society: A Key to the […]