On the occasion of Professor Tim Scanlon’s retirement from teaching, the Department of Philosophy and Harvard University will host a “Celebration of the Philosophy and Teaching of T. M. Scanlon” on Saturday, April 30, 2016 from 12:30 p.m. to 7:00 pm. The day will begin with a special welcome with Harvard President Drew Faust and Professor Christine Korsgaard of the Department of Philosophy. As a charter member of the Faculty...
Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday September 25
10:00am WELCOMING REMARKS
10:15-12:30pm POLITICS BETWEEN UTOPIA AND REALITY MICHAEL WALZER - Should We Reclaim Political Utopianism MALACHI HACOHEN - Cosmopolitanism, the European Nation State and Jewish Life: Berlin and Popper
2:15-4:30pm LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS SVETLANA BOYM - Dialogues on Liberty Beyond the Cold War: Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova ALAN RYAN - The History of Ideas as Psychodrama
