In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

History is rife with artists who created inspiring work, but were considered questionable characters at best, and despicable at worst. Caravaggio, the renowned 16th-century Italian painter, was also known as a notorious criminal and a murderer. Immediately after the death of Klaus Kinski, one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, his daughter revealed...

Small communities and associations have a political component. Not only do they offer an opportunity for political participation at a small scale, but they also relate politically to other communities. I explore the politics among communities by looking at three different places where people with and without disabilities live together in intentional community—Geel, Belgium; L’Arche;...

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

2024 Las Casas Institute Annual Lecture Professor Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE Law School, is returning to the Las Casas Institute to give this year's Annual Lecture. Open to all. The lecture will be live streamed as well. Professor Gearty has given an interview to Ian Linden ahead of his lecture....