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.
This five-part series continues conversations that have taken place within a constellation of preceding programs—The Liberal Imaginary and Beyond (2020-2021), Identity and Belonging in a Global Age (2021-2022), and Reimagining the University (2023), co-sponsored by institutions including the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition. Past speakers include Barbara Fields, Charles Taylor, Seyla Benhabib, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cornel West, Caitlin Zaloom, Arturo Escobar, Samuel Moyn, Deondra Rose, and Craig Calhoun.
