Day 1 of Two
Thursday, April 5th in Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave
Session 1: 2:00-3:15
East/West, Left/Right, totality/infinity: is solidarity possible?
Mike Gubser and Aspen Brinton
Coffee break: 3:15
Session 2: 3:45-5:00
“Living in truth” in postmodern times, or, what is the (non-)ideology of post-truth?
Ludger Hagedorn and James Dodd
“[T]he habit of civilization is fragile,” wrote Czesław Miłosz, shortly after defecting from Stalinist Poland in 1951, “a sudden change in circumstances and humanity reverts to its primeval savagery.” This is precisely what Americans do not understand today: how quickly the borders can slip, how what was unimaginable one day can become the new normal three weeks later, how extraordinary is the human capacity to normalize the abnormal.