Sari Nusseibeh’s Friday, April 13 lecture will be live streamed via http://Live.ASU.Edu. Nusseibeh, a political philosopher and peace activist, will be speaking today at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at 2:30 p.m. in West Hall, room 135. The topic of his lecture is, “Religion, Values and the Search for Peace.”
Sari Nusseibeh, a Harvard- and Oxford-educated Palestinian scholar whose focus is on peace in the Palestine-Israel area, will deliver the Annual Lecture on Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies sponsored by the Arizona State University Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.
The free lecture, titled “Religion, Values and the Search for Peace,” will take place at 2:30 p.m., April 13, in West Hall room 135 on ASU’s Tempe campus.
His voice is an important one on the subject, said Yasmin Saikia, who holds the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and is a professor of...
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What do we mean by human rights? Do conceptions of human rights offer the best approach to achieving dignity, justice and equality for women? Can human freedom be measured?
Martha Nussbaum, philosopher, public intellectual and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will address these questions in a free public lecture titled “Human Rights and Women” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 15 in the College of Law Great Hall (Armstrong 113) on ASU’s Tempe campus.
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