The interdisciplinary center will offer 18 workshops this academic year. A typical workshop brings together several Stanford faculty members and a number of advanced Stanford graduate students, who meet at least four times per quarter to present work in progress and explore topics or problems of common intellectual concern. The workshops support faculty members who are exploring new intellectual agendas and encourage graduate students to enter into ongoing scholarly dialogues. The program is sustained by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. A series of seminars, structured around three themes, will address recent topics in the study of ancient cultures.
First meeting is to be announced.
First meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. in the Humanities Center Annex. This seminar will study the contested concept of autonomy, which occupies a central place in moral philosophy, political theory, international relations, bioethics, cultural psychology, feminist ethics and philosophy of education. First meeting is to be announced. This workshop concerns the normative force of different ideals of equality such as equality of political power, equality of opportunity and equality of well-being. First meeting is to be announced.