[Mitai-announce] April 30, 5pm- Martha Nussbaum: "Democracy and Extremism in India and the US"

[Shankar Mukherji]

>From our friends at MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice:

*The Clash Within: Democracy and Extremism in India and the US*

*Martha Nussbaum*
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago

*MONDAY April 30, 5:00-6:30pm
Room 1-190*


While Americans have focused on the war on terror, Iraq, and the Middle
East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the world.
India -- the most populous of all democracies -- has been in crisis.
Until the spring of 2004, its parliamentary government was increasingly
controlled by right-wing Hindu extremists who condone and in some cases
actively support violence against minorities, especially the Muslim
minority. In this lecture, prominent philosopher Martha Nussbaum will
use the violent 2002 Gujarat riots as a lens through which to conduct a
critical examination of the "clash of civilizations" thesis, and argue
that the real "clash of civilizations" is not the clash between "Islam"
and "the West," but instead a clash /within/ virtually all modern nations.



Martha Nussbaum is a prominent philosopher who has written prolifically
on issues ranging from classical philosophy and literature to gender
rights to contemporary politics and democracy. She received her B.A.
from NYU and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard,
Brown, and Oxford Universities. From 1986 to 1993, she was a research
advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research,
Helsinki, a part of the United Nations University. She has chaired the
Committee on International Cooperation and the Committee on the Status
of Women of the American Philosophical Association, and currently chairs
its new Committee for Public Philosophy.

Professor Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor
of Law and Ethics,appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School and
Divinity School. She is an Associate in the Classics Department and the
Political Science Department, an Affiliate of the Committee on Southern
Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She is
the founder and Coordinator of the new Center for Comparative
Constitutionalism.
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       The Clash Within: Democracy and Extremism in India and the US

                              Martha Nussbaum
       Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
                           University of Chicago
                        MONDAY April 30, 5:00-6:30pm
                                 Room 1-190

   While Americans have focused on the war on terror, Iraq, and the
   Middle East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the
   world.  India - the most populous of all democracies - has been in
   crisis. Until the spring of 2004, its parliamentary government was
   increasingly controlled by right-wing Hindu extremists who condone and
   in some cases actively support violence against minorities, especially
   the Muslim minority. In this lecture, prominent philosopher Martha
   Nussbaum will use the violent 2002 Gujarat riots as a lens through
   which to conduct a critical examination of the "clash of
   civilizations" thesis, and argue that the real "clash of
   civilizations" is not the clash between "Islam" and "the West," but
   instead a clash within virtually all modern nations.
   Martha Nussbaum is a prominent philosopher who has written
   prolifically on issues ranging from classical philosophy and
   literature to gender rights to contemporary politics and democracy.
   She received her B.A. from NYU and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard.
   She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. From 1986
   to 1993, she was a research advisor at the World Institute for
   Development Economics Research, Helsinki, a part of the United Nations
   University. She has chaired the Committee on International Cooperation
   and the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Philosophical
   Association, and currently chairs its new Committee for Public
   Philosophy.
   Professor Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor
   of Law and Ethics,appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School
   and Divinity School. She is an Associate in the Classics Department
   and the Political Science Department, an Affiliate of the Committee on
   Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights
   Program. She is the founder and Coordinator of the new Center for
   Comparative Constitutionalism.
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