Professor Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard): The Floor of the World
Thursday, 20 May 201017:00 - 19:00
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Elaine Scarry Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic and Walter M. Cabot
Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value in the Department of
English, Harvard University, explored the possibility of vast injury to
the world posed by US nuclear weapons and, simultaneously, the way such
weaponry nullifies the one thing that might act as a brake on war
making – democratic citizenship.
This lecture was free and open to all.
Administrative enquiries: Anna Malinowksa
