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Harvard faculty member to speak about war and academics

David Gonnerman
September 18, 2007

David Little, professor at Harvard Divinity School and faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, will address "The Role of the Academic in Times of War" on Thursday, Sept. 27, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Buntrock Commons Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Before coming to Harvard, Little was senior scholar in religion, ethics and human rights at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, D.C. He co-authored the book Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy and is author of two volumes in the USIP series on religion, nationalism and intolerance.

Little's talk is one of several events that will take place at St. Olaf throughout the fall as part of the "Liberal Arts in Times of War" theme during the college's two-year academic focus on "Global Citizenship." The purpose of the theme is to encourage college-wide reflection on the contributions of liberal arts to understanding war, terrorism and the war against it, morality in war, plus the ideas of "realism," "just war," "holy war" and "non-violence" as competing traditions in the analysis of war.

Future lecturers will include Minnesota National Guard Sgt. John Kriesel and George Kelling '56, professor at the Rutgers-Newark School of Criminal Justice.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.