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In 2004, Martha Nussbaum publisher her important new book Hiding from Humanity: Shame, Disgust, and the Law (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). This book explores the important and often neglected relationship between emotions and the law. The conference will bring together four philosophers—David Archard (Lancaster), Thom Brooks (Newcastle), Willie Charlton (Retired), and John Haldane (St Andrews)—with replies to each by Martha Nussbaum.
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School and Divinity School. She is an Associate in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, an Affiliate of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She is the founder and Coordinator of the new Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. Her Hiding From Humanity won the Association of American University Publishers Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law in 2004.
The conference is open to all. Funding for postgraduate students is available on a first come, first serve basis.
The conference is supported generously by the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (NIASSH); the Newcastle Legal Theory Network; the Newcastle Political Philosophy Group; Princeton University Press; the School of Geography, Politics, & Sociology; and the Society for Applied Philosophy.
Unwaged/student: £10
Waged: £15
Price includes registration, teas/coffees, and buffet lunch.