Post by Saxifrage on Feb 24, 2008 12:45:38 GMT -5
The Tocqueville Forum just announced: “Georgetown alumnus and First Things editor Joseph Bottum will give a public lecture on campus on St. Patrick’s Day.” Well, um, that’s me—my first invited return to campus in a couple years, and I thought I’d remind my HoyaTalk friends of the occasion. Come, in the unlikely event you have nothing better to do. It’s March 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the ICC auditorium.
The talk is called “Living with the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials,” and the respondents will be the New Criterion’s Roger Kimball, National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia, and the architectural historian Denis McNamara.
The theme is a specific application to civil architecture and urban design of “Death & Politics,” a long essay on the centrality of grief to political theory, which appeared this summer in First Things. The essay is online here:
www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5917
The talk is called “Living with the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials,” and the respondents will be the New Criterion’s Roger Kimball, National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia, and the architectural historian Denis McNamara.
The theme is a specific application to civil architecture and urban design of “Death & Politics,” a long essay on the centrality of grief to political theory, which appeared this summer in First Things. The essay is online here:
www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5917
