Contemporary Conversations about Contemporary Civilization

The CC Chats are a weekly forum on Zoom open to all Contemporary Civilization students where they can discuss freely some of the texts on the CC syllabus with world-leading experts from a large variety of fields. These discussions focus on the larger and/or the contemporary stakes of the texts on the CC syllabus.

Upcoming Chats

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Past Chats

Does the Universe Really Bend toward (Social) Justice? The Scriptures and the Political Challenges of Today.
Obery Hendricks (Religion, Columbia University)
October 9, 2020

Mind and Body: Decision-Making from Augustine to Neuroscience
Michael Shadlen (Neuroscience, Columbia University)
October 16, 2020

Decolonizing Contemporary Civilization: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (French and Philosophy, Columbia University)
October 23, 2020

Machiavelli on Princes, Populists, and Plutocrats
John P. McCormick (Political Science, University of Chicago)
October 30, 2020