Speaker Series

Justice and the Oneness of Humankind

Part 2 of The New Discourse on Oneness

April 5, 2024

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

Speakers

Jeremy David Engels

Penn State University

Jeremy David Engels is a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and the Barry Director of the Honors Program at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita (University of Chicago Press) and The Art of Gratitude (State University of New York Press).

Ayça Çubukçu

London School of Economics

Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and co-director of LSE Human Rights. She is the author of For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press).

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.