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The Liberal Education - Dead or Alive?
Conference Participants
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Raimond Gaita
Raimond Gaita:
Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London and Foundation
Professor of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. Gaita's
main research interests and publications have been in ethics. His books
include Why the War was Wrong (2003); The Philosopher's
Dog (2002); Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception (1991;
2002); A Common Humanity; Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice (1999); Romulus,
My Father (1998). |
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker:
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A leading
researcher and prolific author in the field of language and cognition,
His prizes and awards include the William James Book Prize (three times),
the Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize, and the Eleanor Maccoby Book
Prize; The Troland Research Prize from the National Academy of Sciences
and the Early Career and McCandless Awards from the American Psychological
Association; Honorary Doctorates from McGill and the Universities of
Surrey and Tel Aviv; Humanist Laureate, International Academy of Humanism;
and three teaching prizes from MIT. His numerous publications, many
of which have been widely translated, include The Blank Slate:
The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002); Words and Rules:
The Ingredients of Language (1999); How the Mind Works (1997); Language
Learnability and Language Development (1984; 1996); The Language
Instinct (1994). |
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson:
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
His awards include a Fellowship of the Royal Society, the Danny Heineman
Prize from the American Institute of Physics, and the Templeton Prize
for Progress in Religion. Dyson’s publications include The
Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999); Origins of Life (1999); Imagined
Worlds (1997); Infinite in All Directions (1988); Weapons
and Hope (1984); Disturbing the Universe (1979). |
Philip Fisher
Philip Fisher (with Elaine Scarry):
Professor of English, Harvard University. Fisher’s publications
include The Vehement Passions (2002); Still the New World:
American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1998-99); Wonder,
the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998); Making
and Effacing Art (1991); (ed.) New American Studies (1991); Hard
Facts (1986); Making Up Society (1981). He received the
Truman Capote Prize, jointly with Elaine Scarry, for Dreaming by
the Book. |
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser:
Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College. A widely
published researcher in theoretical physics, he is a Fellow of the
American Physical Society and recipient of the Presidential Faculty
Fellows Award. His interest in the cultural roots of scientific thought
has generated two books, The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths
to the Big Bang (1997), and The Prophet and the Astronomer:
A Scientific Journey to the End of Time (2001). Both books received
the Jabuti Award, the highest literary award in his native Brazil. |
Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton:
Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
His honors and awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and
the Behrman Prize for Achievement in the Humanities. His numerous publications
include, Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2002); Bring
Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (2002); Secrets of Nature:
Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (2001); Cardano's
Cosmos: The Worlds and Work of a Renaissance Astrologer (1999); The
Footnote: A Curious History (1997): Defenders of the Text:
The Traditions of Humanism in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (1991) Forgers
and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (1990);
(with L. Jardine) From Humanism to the Humanities (1986). |
Stanley Katz
Stanley N. Katz:
Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs, Princeton University and President Emeritus
of the American Council of Learned Societies. In addition to extensive
journal publications, Katz is co-editor of a book on the behavior of
non-governmental peace and conflict resolution organizations in Northern
Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and South Africa in collaboration with Professor
Benjamin Gidron of Ben Gurion University, Mobilizing for Peace:
Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel/Palestine (2002),
and is co-editor of The Life of Learning (1994). |
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby:
Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor in the Department of History and
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard Univerity; Visiting
Professor at Beijing University, Nanjing University, and the Free University
of Berlin. His current projects include: the genesis of modern China's
economic bureaucracy; the history of China's mid-20th century "transitions" on
the mainland and Taiwan; and the structure of modern Chinese capitalism.
Kirby’s publications include State and Economy in Republican
China: A Handbook for Scholars (2001) Modern China Series (editor); Realms
of Freedom in the Modern Chinese World (editor); A
World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (forthcoming). |
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner:
Tony Kushner is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in
America, currently being aired as a two-part film -- directed by
Mike Nichols and starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Emma Thompson –on
HBO. In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, the Broadway production of Angels
in America received two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the
Evening Standard Award, two Olivier Award Nominations, the New York Critics
Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the LAMBDA
Literary Award for Drama. Other awards for Kushner’s work include
two Obie awards, two Dramatists’ Guild Awards, two GLAAD awards,
a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award, the Princess Grace Award,
and a Lifetime Achievement Award from National Foundation for Jewish
Culture. Kushner’s other plays include Caroline, or Change (with
composer Jeanine Tesori), currently being performed in New York, Homebody/Kabul, Hydrotaphia, A
Bright Room Called Day, and Slavs! He has adapted Goethe’s Stella,
Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan, Ansky’s The
Dybbuk, and Corneille’s The Illusion. He has published
extensively in papers ranging from The Nation through The
New York Times and The Los Angeles Times to The Advocate on
social and political topics, and he has both collaborated with Maurice
Sendak and written on his work. |
Gene Likens
Gene Likens:
President, Director and G. Evelyn Hutchinson Chair in Ecology, Institute
of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York; 2001 National Medal of Science
Laureate. Likens joined the New York Botanical Garden to found the
Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 1983. With his colleagues, he was
the first to document the link between the increasing acidity of precipitation – primarily
caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides– and
fossil fuel combustion in North America. He received the National Medal
for Science in 2001. His co-authored publications include Liminological
Analyses (2000); Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem:
Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard
Ecosystem Study (1996) and Biogeochemistry of a Forested
Ecosystem,
(1995). |
Louis Menand
Louis Menand:
Professor of English, Harvard University. Menand was Contributing Editor
of The New York Review of Books from 1994 to 2001 and is currently
a staff writer at The New Yorker. His publications include American
Studies (2002); The Metaphysical Club (2001), which won
the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize from the
Society of American Historians; The Cambridge History of Literary
Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and The New Criticism,
co-ed. (2000); The Future of Academic Freedom, ed. (1998); Pragmatism:
A Reader, ed. (1997); and Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot
and His Context (1987; new edition 2004). |
Keith Moxey
Keith Moxey:
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia
University in New York. His publications include The Practice of
Persuasion: Politics and Paradox in Art History (2001); The
Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics and Art History (1994);
and Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation (1989).
He is also the co-editor of several anthologies: Art History, Aesthetics,
Visual Culture (2002); The Subjects of Art History: Historical
Objects in Contemporary Perspective (1998); Visual Culture:
Images and Interpretations (1994); and Visual Theory: Painting
and Interpretation (1991). |
David Mumford
David Mumford:
University Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University.
Higgins Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department, Harvard,
1981- 84. Vice president (1991–94) and president (1995–98)
of the International Mathematical Union. His awards include a MacArthur
Fellowship from 1987 to 1992 and the Fields Medal for mathematical
achievement in 1974. Mumford’s publications include Indra's
Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein (2002). |
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte:
Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and founding chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory. In 1995,
he published The New York Times bestseller Being Digital (1996),
which has been translated into over 40 languages. Other publications
include: The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation
Gap (1996) and The Complete Guide to Multimedia: An Instructive
and Fascinating Guide to the Leading Edge of Multimedia Technology (1996).
Negroponte is also a founder of WiReD magazine. Most recently,
Negroponte helped to establish, and serves as chairman of, the 2B1
Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing computer access to
children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world. |
Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman:
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam,
Germany.
In the 1990s, taught philosophy at Yale University and Tel Aviv University.
Her publications include Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History
of Philosophy (2002); The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant (1994); Slow
Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin (1992). Her most recent book, Evil
in Modern Thought, received an Award for Excellence from the American
Academy of Religion in 2003 and the Association of American Publishers
Award for the best book in Philosophy in 2002. |
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Andrea Nightingale:
Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Stanford
University. Her publications include Genres in Dialogue: Plato
and the Construct of Philosophy (1996); Spectacles of Truth
in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its
Cultural Context (2004). Professor Nightingale is also the recipient
of a Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships. |
Vernon Rosario
Vernon Rosario:
Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California,
Los Angeles. His awards include Norbert & Charlotte Rieger Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy Award of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry, 2002; Alex Rogowski Memorial Prize, UCLA Psychiatric Clinical
Faculty Association, 2002: American Academy of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry-Pfizer Outstanding Resident in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,
2001. Rosario’s publications include Science and Homosexualities (ed.,
1997); The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity (1997), Homosexuality
and Science. A Guide to the Debates (2002). |
Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry (with Philip Fisher):
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value
at Harvard University. Her writings include Who Defended the Country (2003); On
Beauty and Being Just (2001); Dreaming by the Book (2001); The
Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1987); Resisting
Representation (1994), and articles on war and social contract.
She received the Truman Capote Prize, jointly with Philip Fisher, for Dreaming
by the Book. |
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