Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Alice Kaplan — “Looking for ‘The Stranger’: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic”

Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington

For the Washington History Seminar, Alice Kaplan presents her book Looking for "The Stranger": Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic (University of Chicago Press, 2016), which explores the development and critical reception of Camus's 1942 novel. Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. The seminar is a joint venture of the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the History and Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Martha Nussbaum — “Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame”

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F Street NW, Washington

Philosopher and law professor Martha C. Nussbaum will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Her lecture topic will draw from her latest book project, which brings a philosophical view to political crises in America, Europe, and India by offering a deeper understanding of how fear, anger, disgust, and envy interact to create a divisiveness that threatens democracies. Nussbaum is the University of Chicago’s Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics. This event is sold out, but a wait list is available. There […]