Justice and the Oneness of Humankind
Speakers
JEREMY DAVID ENGELS
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).
AYCA CUBUKCU
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
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
Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is 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.
SPRING 2024 SPEAKER SERIES
The New Discourse on Oneness
The idea of oneness has emerged as an important concept within a growing number of scholarly debates. This series brings together a diverse group of leading thinkers to explore notions of oneness and to consider their implications for some of the pressing social and ethical questions we face today. Guided by the conviction that the principle of oneness contains rather than contradicts the robust expression of diversity, The New Discourse on Oneness invites dialogue across a wide spectrum of fields including physics and philosophy, history and ecology, as well as Black, Indigenous, Indian, and Chinese thought.
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