Reimagining the University in Times of War

Speaker Series

Reimagining the University in Times of War

Part 2 of Reimagining the University

March 10, 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

Samuel Moyn

Yale University

Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010). His most recent books are Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018) and Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021).

Malachi Hacohen

Duke University

Malachi Hacohen is Professor of History at Duke University and Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. His book Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902–1945 won the American Historical Association’s Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 2001. His recent book Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation & Empire won the Center for Austrian Studies biennial book prize in 2020.

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.