As part of its commitment to develop the ethos of Case Western Reserve University and its relationship to its larger community, every two years, the Beamer-Schneider Professorship presents a lecture and workshop by a world-class public intellectual, ethicist or thinker of politics on a matter concerning the intersection of ethics and civics.
The 2013 lecture will be given April 11 by Susan Neiman, author of the best-selling book Moral Clarity and director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin. Her lecture will focus on two questions covered in her book: “What would a U.S.A. that truly lived up to the Enlightenment be?” and “What, in the legacy of the socialist tradition, is morally imperative to safeguard in politics?” Neiman will also host a workshop on April 12 examining the fall of communism in post-1989 Eastern Europe.
Visit the lecture’s website and for more information about the lecture. To be placed on the lecture email list (which will send out emails only infrequently as the lecture approaches), email bendik-keymer@case.edu.