Celebrated Sociologist, Craig Calhoun, To Lecture At Muhlenberg College
One of the world’s leading sociologists, Craig Calhoun, will reflect on questions of identity and difference in his lecture, “Cosmopolitanism and Belonging,” on February 20 at 7 p.m. in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Monday, February 13, 2006 01:59 PM
Calhoun’s lecture is a part of the series, The Ethics and Politics of Identity.
Calhoun will address the neglect of ethic and cultural identity in the way we frequently speck about globalization. Calhoun notes that we too often assume that our social solidarities- in the sense of belonging to an ethnic group, nation, or religion – will get swept away in the new global currents. His lecture will challenge this assumption, suggesting the numerous ways in which local and particular communities still matter.
Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. He has authored a number of books, including Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (1994), Nationalism (1995), and Critical Social Theory (1995). Among his edited collections are Habermas and the Public Sphere (1992), Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (1997), Understanding September 11th (2002), Social Theory and the Politics of Identity (1994) and Lessons of Empire (2005). Calhoun has long reflected on questions of identity and difference, most recently in relation to globalization.
The Ethics and Politics of Identity is a year long series of programs, sponsored by the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics , about the ethical challenges that surround the changing categories of social, national, and global identities.
For more information on the series, or to view the schedule of events, please visit: www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
