Identity, Spirituality, and Social Change

Speaker Series

Identity, Spirituality, and Social Change

Part 2 of Identity and Belonging in a Global Age

January 28, 2022

Co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Akeel Bilgrami

Columbia University

Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of Self Knowledge and Resentment (2006), Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (2014), and a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press on Gandhi’s philosophy.

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).

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.