On Race, Science, and Liberal Education: a conversation with Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1W15 Cafe
As part of the faculty-led DEI event series, Ewa Atanassow and Ulrike Wagner invite you to a conversation with Geoffrey Galt Harpham, a scholar of the humanities and director emeritus of the National Humanities Center. Our conversation will delve into Professor Harpham’s new project, which traces the intellectual history of the concept of race and its impact on the development of modern scientific disciplines. Through this exploration, we aim to gain insights into what we can learn from this history and how we should relate to it today.
This event is sponsored by Early Modern Science Core and the Senior Colloquium. A pre-circulated text, which those interested in attending will be asked to read in advance, will be sent by email.
Geoffrey Harpham is a literary scholar and intellectand historian. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane University, and Duke University, and from 2003-15, he served as president and director of the National Humanities Center. During this time he became a prominent historian of and advocate for the humanities, sponsoring initiatives that encouraged dialogues between the humanities and the sciences and social sciences. His longstanding scholarly interests include the role of ethics in literary study, the place of language in intellectual history, the history of education, the place of scholarship in the contemporary world, and the history of the race concept.