Title: | Morris Berman: Special Lecture SeriesFinished |
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Date: | April 17 (Thu) and 18 (Fri), 2014 |
Place: | Apr 17: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Building 101, University of Tokyo, Komaba; Apr 18: KALS, Bld. 17 (2nd floor). The University of Tokyo, Komaba |
Morris Berman
Special Lecture Series
Date: April 17, 2014, 13:30-16:30
Venue: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Building 101, The University of Tokyo, Komaba
1st lecture
Unconscious Programming: The Hidden Narratives of American History
2nd lecture
The Road to Hiroshima: A New Interpretation
Date: April 18, 2014, 15:00-16:00
Venue: KALS, Building 14, The University of Tokyo, Komaba
3rd lecture
Stagnation or Sustainability? Japan as a Post-Capitalist Model
Professor Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America. He won the Governor's Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, and was the first recipient of the annual Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992. In 2000 The Twilight of American Culture was named a "Notable Book" by the New York Times Book Review. In 2013 he received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association.
Language: English | Admission Free | No Registration Required
Organized by L1Project "Dialogical Practice between Eastern and Western Philosophy", Uehiro Research Division for Philosophy of Coexistence, The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP)