News & Events
February 9, 4:30pm, Ida Noyes Hall, Library
The Lumen Christi Inst. and The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies presents "Shakespeare's Jewish Questions" by David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of History, and in the College.
February 24, 4:30pm, Location to be determined
Kohut Lecture by Social Thought's Kohut Visiting Professor, Sebastian Roedl. Prof. Roedl is a professor of philosophy at the University of Basel. Title is forthcoming.
March 1, 4:30pm, Stuart 105
The Committee on Social Thought presents a Nef Lecture "Negative Predication: The Visitor's Account" by Irad Kimhi, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem.
May 12, 4:30pm, Foster 305
Social Thought Colloquium - by Justin Evans, title is forthcoming.
Committee on Social Thought
The Committee on Social Thought is an interdisciplinary, Ph.D. granting graduate program. Its guiding principle is that the serious study of many academic topics, and of many philosophical, historical, theological and literary works, is best prepared for by a wide and deep acquaintance with the fundamental issues presupposed in all such studies, that students should learn about these issues by acquainting themselves with a select number of major ancient and modern texts in an inter- disciplinary atmosphere, and should only then begin intense work on a specific dissertation topic. In their first few years of study, students select twelve to fifteen foundational or fundamental books that best inform the context and background of the issues they want to write about, and they read and study these books in discussion groups, tutorials, seminars and independently, and then sit a week long qualifying exam on some selection of their books. Learn more...
