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As a frequent contributor to The New Republic, Daedalus, The New York Review of Books and other highly respected publications, historian Tony Judt is set apart from many other distinguished scholars by his role as a genuinely "public intellectual."
He will speak next week to general audiences on the Indiana University Bloomington campus as a Patten Lecturer.
Judt is the founding director of the Remarque Institute at New York University, which promotes the study and discussion of Europe and facilitates communication between Americans and Europeans. The institute is named for Erich Maria Remarque, whose widow, Paulette Goddard, made a generous bequest to NYU.
Judt will deliver two Patten Foundation Lectures. The first will be Tuesday (Feb. 16) at 7:30 p.m. in Rawles Hall 100, and the second will be Thursday (Feb. 18) at 5 p.m. in Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union.
His first lecture is titled "Necessity and Irresponsibility: Intellectuals and Politics in Cold War Europe," and the second is titled "Beyond Good and Evil?: Intellectuals and Politics Today."
Judt will be in residence at IU this month as a visiting fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study.
He also will participate in the international conference "Cold War Culture: Film, Fact and Fiction," co-hosted by IU's West European Studies National Resource Center Feb. 18-21.
Related Link:
http://www.indiana.edu/~weur/Cwc.html
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