Perpetual Peace Project Kickoff LecturePerpetual Peace Project Kickoff Lecturehttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/161161KINSC Sharpless Auditorium2011-02-10T19:00:002011-02-10T21:00:00
February 10, 7:00PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Kickoff lecture for the Perpetual Peace Project, a collaboration between the Slought Foundation, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and the Hurford Humanities Center
Description
The Perpetual Peace Project at Haverford College
Sponsored by the Slought Foundation, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and the John B. Hurford ‘60 Humanities Center
Opening Lecture with project organizers:
Aaron Levy Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought Foundation
Martin Rauchbauer. Deputy Director, Austrian Cultural Forum
Gregg Lambert, Founding Director, Syracuse University Humanities Center
Thursday, February 10th Sharpless Auditorium 7:00 p.m.
The Perpetual Peace Project, inspired and named after Immanuel Kant’s treatise, is predicated on the belief that no one institution or individual can clearly claim or guarantee a mastery of the concept of peace. Today, as in Kant's time, the concept of peace remains abstract and continues to be defined negatively as an absence of war. For this reason, the project takes on initiatives within multiple institutions, to create the conditions for proposing yet again the idea of peace. The project is not attempting to formulate public policy actively; rather to conceptualize a peace movement, raising questions about how such a movement might occur. This project can be understood through Kant's notion of 'publicity;' its many forums enable us to move conversations in different directions with multiple perspectives. Eventually, this conversation must include everyone, since no one can claim to have absolute knowledge concerning the idea of peace.
The Slought Foundation and Syracuse University Humanities Center's partners in this project are the European Union National Institutes of Culture, the United Nations University, , and the International Peace Institute.
Organized by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the John B. Hurford ‘60 Humanities Center
More information: http://www.perpetualpeaceproject.org + http://www.haverford.edu/perpetualpeace
Link: http://perpetualpeaceproject.org/
For More Info
Hurford Humanities Center
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