Students and faculty will face off in the annual Live Figures Chess Game at 5:30 p.m. Monday, September 18 on the Kelvin Smith Library Oval. The event kicks off the third annual Humanities Week Celebration. Sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, the week's events are free and open to the public.
"Humanities Week offers the opportunity to celebrate and reflect on how we make human meanings and communities, how the present springs from our many pasts, and how creativity and the capacity for play remain integral to our lives," says Thomas Bishop, director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.
Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will give the week's keynote address at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 20. Her talk, "The Costs of Tragedy: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Theories of Justice," takes place in Thwing Center Ballroom.
Thomas Bishop, director of the Baker-Nord Center, describes Nussbaum as "brilliant and a wide-ranging thinker." He notes that she is one of the country's leading humanities scholars, working in law, literature, politics, and philosophy.
Nussbaum is the award-winning author and editor of such books as The Stoic Idea of City (1999), Sex and Social Justice (1999), Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (1998), and Essays on Law and Nature (1998).
Her book, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, is due for publication this year by Cambridge Press.
Nussbaum has earned the Brandeis Creative Arts Award for Non-Fiction in 1990 and the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays in 1991.
Other activities planned for the week are:
For more information, call 368-0528.
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