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| "America in Afghanistan: Limits of Just War Action" |
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| Start Date: | 11/4/2009 | Start Time: | 4:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/4/2009 | End Time: | 6:00 PM |
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Event Description
The Department of Religion will host a lecture, “America in Afghanistan: Limits of Just War Action,” by Dr. John Kelsay, the Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion and the Bristol Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Florida State University. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Weinstein Hall’s Brown-Alley Room.
Kelsay is an associate dean in Florida State’s College of Arts & Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1985 and began teaching at FSU in 1987. Over the past two decades, he has distinguished himself as one of the pre-eminent and most sought-after interpreters of Islamic thought about war and peace. He is the author or co-author of three volumes and has edited an additional four. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship, which supported work he conducted at Princeton’s Center for Human Values, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, the result of which is his recent book, Arguing the Just War in Islam (Harvard, 2007). In the spring of 2008, he lectured at Oxford University’s Christ Church on the changing character of war, and in the fall of 2007 he delivered the lecture, “Different Interpretations of Islam: Who’s Up? Who’s Down?,” as part of a program in London sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. Kelsay also serves as the co-editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. |
Location Information:
University of Richmond - Weinstein Hall
Room: Brown-Alley Room
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Admission Information:
This event is free and open to the general public. |
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