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About the Event
Conversion is an experience but also a metaphor. In Christian and post-Christian societies it affects the way we think about the self and how we might want to change; it also affects how we imagine society changing, in particular through the notion of revolution. But is sudden, radical change really possible in human life? And even if it is, should we desire it?
About the Speaker
Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and other domestic and foreign publications. His forthcoming book, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, will be published by Farrar Straus Giroux in the fall. For more information on Mark Lilla visit marklilla.com.
About the Benson Center:
The Benson Center promotes study of the intellectual, artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization. Central to this mission is our commitment to fostering dialogue about fundamental values and controversial questions. The Center provides a forum for free inquiry and open debate, and it promotes academic freedom and intellectual diversity on campus in a time of increasing political polarization and homogeneity.
The Center supports research that explores the ideas emerging from historically Western traditions and traces their continued influence. It focuses particularly on their role in establishing the foundational ideals and institutions of the United States. The Center promotes balanced discourse that engages both liberal and conservative viewpoints, in order to maintain a wide range of political, economic and philosophical perspectives at CU Boulder.
The Center is committed to intellectual rigor and the highest academic standards. It seeks to provide a premier academic venue for the study of our nation's political and cultural traditions. Its focus on the values of political and economic freedom, moral and legal equality, and individual liberty offers students, scholars, and residents of Colorado the opportunity to study ideals that have shaped fundamental aspects of the American intellectual heritage.