Bicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series
Martha Nussbaum
Date:
Thursday February 21, 2013
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Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Diamond / 142
Event type: Lecture
Event Description:
Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the law school and philosophy department at the University of Chicago, where she also is an associate in the classics department, the divinity school, and the political science department, a member of the committee on Southern Asian studies, and a board member of the human rights program. Her many publications include Sex and Social Justice; Women and Human Development; Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions; Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality; From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law; Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities; and The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age. She also has edited 15 books. Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice will be published in 2013.