Are Universities Too Liberal?

Speaker Series

Are Universities Too Liberal?

Part 4 of Reimagining the University

April 28, 2023

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Joseph Chan

Academia Sinica

Joseph Chan is Distinguished Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He taught in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong for three decades and is the author of Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times (2014).

Cornel West

Union Theological Seminary

Cornel West is Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of Race Matters (1994), Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2004), and Black Prophetic Fire (2014).

Jennifer Frey

University of South Carolina

Jennifer Frey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. She is the co-editor of Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology.

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.