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In The News

The Hedgehog Review“In its 10th Year, Journal about Culture Looks Toward the Future” was the headline in UVa Today regarding The Hedgehog Review’s latest milestone.

 

Former Fellow Felicia Wu Song’s essay in the Spring 2008 issue of Culture, “Social Networking Sites,” inspired an editorial in The Washington Times, while David Franz’s “Cubitopia” from the Fall 2007 issue was reviewed in The Wilson Quarterly.

Other News

The God of a Second Chance

Dissertation Fellow Justin Neuman will be defending his dissertation this summer and heading off to New Haven for an assistant professorship at Yale University. We sat down with Justin to discuss his project as well as his plans. Listen to the interview. [0:06:52]

The Institute’s 2008–2009 Fellows will be introduced in the August eNewsletter…keep an eye out for it.

Recent Publications

The Hedgehog Review: The Uses of the Past

The Hedgehog Review (Order here)

The Spring 2008 issue of The Hedgehog Review, “Imagining the Future,” explores our propensity to envision the future and the forms these visions take in contemporary life. Read IASC Director Joshua Yates’s essay, “Managing the Future,” a review of Francis Fukuyama’s Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics.

Culture

Culture (Order here)

Culture’s Spring 2008 issue revolves around “Ambiguous Distinctions.” Read about the spread of American problem-solving courts in former IASC Fellow James Nolan’s essay, “Ambivalent Anti-Americanism.”

Recent publications by IASC Directors and Fellows include: Slavica Jakelić in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Joseph Davis in Society, Jon Shields in Critical Review, and a review of Kristen Johnson’s book by Oliver O’Donovan in The Expository Times. [Please note, subscriptions are necessary to view these essays.]

Culture Notes

Babies by Design: Ethics and Genetic Enhancement

Ronald Green and Joseph Davis

UVa Medical Center Hour – October 2007

Ronald Green adds moral and social complexity to the genetic engineering debate in his recent book. Listen here to his presentation at the inaugural Hollingsworth Lecture in Practical Ethics and IASC Director Joseph Davis’s response.

The Moral Life of Cubicles: The Utopian Origins of Dilbert’s Workspace

David Franz

The New Atlantis – Winter 2008

Few now question their cubicle’s origin. Not so with IASC Fellow David Franz. This is his second essay on the topic (his first was in the Fall 2007 issue of Culture). This essay from The New Atlantis has been posted on Arts & Letters Daily and blogged about by Andrew Sullivan and The New Republic.

China Helps Itself

The Economist – 22 May 2008

Astonishing many, the Chinese people have mobilized, volunteering aid to their fellow countrymen who are suffering from the recent earthquake—and the government seems to be responding to this individual action with praise.

Behind the Masks

David Runciman

The Guardian – 17 May 2008

Perhaps it is the acknowledgment and lament of dirty hands, not their absence, which makes for a virtuous politician. Or so proposes David Runciman in this essay, as in his new book, Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.

 

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