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Scholars to meet Nov. 15 to debate 'New World Order'
Andrea
Lynn, Humanities Editor
217-333-2177; andreal@illinois.edu
11/4/03
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
A one-day conference on "Understanding
the 21st Century: Three Leading Public Intellectuals Debate the New
World Order" will be held Nov. 15 (Saturday) at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, will feature Tony
Judt, the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies, professor
of modern European history and director of the Remarque Institute at
New York University; Mark Lilla, professor in the Committee of Social
Thought at the University of Chicago; and Ania Loomba, the Catherine
Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Four U. of I. professors will moderate the sessions: Peter Fritzsche, history; Lawrence Schehr, French; Zohreh Sullivan, English;
and Maria Todorova, history.
The conference will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Plym Auditorium
of the Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 E. Loredo Taft Drive, Champaign.
The
conference is sponsored by the Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities, the Unit
for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Working Group on Globalization
and Empire, with additional support from many campus units.
For more information, contact Chris
Catanzarite at 217-244-7913.
