Public Intellectuals: Bringing a Public into Being
A Conversation with Corey Robin and Jedediah Purdy
Join us for a discussion with professors Jedediah Purdy and Corey Robin, two scholars who write frequently for non-academic publications. What does it mean to write to “bring a public into being?” Why do this sort of writing? How does the practice of writing for a public affect other, more academic-focused forms of scholarly writing?
Read Some of Corey Robin’s Public Writing
How Intellectuals Create a Public, The Chronicle Review (January 22, 2016), B10-14
Judith Butler as a Public Intellectual, (June 29, 2016), coreyrobin.com
From the Talmud to Judith Butler: Audiences as Co-Creators with — and of — the Public Intellectual (July 2, 2016), coreyrobin.com
Read Some of Jed Purdy’s Public Writing
Environmentalism Was Once a Social-Justice Movement, The Atlantic (December 7, 2016)
What I Had Lost Was a Country, n+1 Magazine (December 20, 2016)
America’s New Opposition, The New Republic (February 1, 2017)
Free and open to the public. Light lunch served. Sponsored by the Forum for Scholars and Publics.
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“What we can do is articulate a politics within which the many people who find themselves left out of a winner-take-all economy can recognize their shared interests.” —Peter Constantine Pihos, The Possibility of a Public, Forum Online
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