What are the obligations of those of us who are affluent in the face of global poverty? 1 billion people live well below the poverty standards, with no access to basic needs. Their life expectacy is an average of 48;10 million children a year die of preventable diseases. What do we do, as rich nations?
Bunzel explains how the Jihadi movement has appropriated the philosophical Wahhabism. He shows that many people in the Muslim world do not aline themselves with Wahhabism or the Jihadi movement, but the movement remains a state building enterprise.
Marcello Canuto talks about the use of LIDAR (a method for measuring distances by illuminating the target with laser light and measuring the reflection with a sensor) is helping us learn about early lowland Maya cutlure.
Dr. Hankins re-evaluates the political thought of the Italian humanists between the time of Petrarch in the mid-14th century and Machiavelli in the early 16th.
Richard A. F. Penrose Lecture; Dr. Sen's lecture explores the meaning of identity and how it can lead to both positive and negative interactions;i.e. people helping neighbors in a crisis vs. an Us vs. Them idology during the very same crisis
Dr. Gaisser retells the story of the Golden Ass, or Metamorphosis. She describes how unlikely it is that this work of fiction in Latin survived to be told in our day.
Dr. Dirks talks about Liberal Arts education, specifically archeology. How are liberal arts connected to the sciences? How does a university administration consider this connection?
Dr. Joseph talks about the genetic link between languages: that they have common origins. He focuses on European languages; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 1 (March 2017) pp. 15-24.
