February 14, 2003
Citizenship Is Topic of Law School Lecture
CHICAGO --- Danielle Allen, associate professor of classical languages
and literatures, political science and the committee on social
thought at the University of Chicago, will deliver the 2003 Julius
Rosenthal Lecture Series March 4-6 at Northwestern University School
of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave.
Free and open
to the public, Allen’s three lectures will
take place at 4 p.m. March 4 and at noon on March 5 and 6.
In an investigation of the history of citizenship in the United
States, she will argue that the period from 1954 through 1964 should
be seen as one of reconstitution that highlighted the foundational
status of sacrifice in democratic political experience.
The lectures,
titled “Loss, Distrust and Citizenship” (March
4), “Imperfect Democracy” (March 5) and “Political
Friendship and the Good of Rhetoric” (March 6), are the basis
for Allen’s forthcoming book titled “Talking to Strangers:
on Rhetoric, Distrust and Citizenship.”
“The lecture series has assumed a preeminent position among
distinguished legal lecture programs,” said David E. Van
Zandt, professor of law and dean of Northwestern University School
of Law. “Publication of the lectures has contributed to legal
literature and scholarship for more than 60 years, and Professor
Allen is certain to continue this tradition.”
Originally
trained in the classics, Allen recently received a second doctorate
in political science, providing a strong basis
for her investigations into the essential philosophical, literary
and cultural threads of the social fabric. Her recent book, “The
World of Prometheus,” examines the theory and practice of
punishment in classical Athens as it affected both the intellectual
elite and ordinary citizens.
Her work contributes new perspectives to discussions of race
and politics that go well beyond the confines of traditional scholarship.
Allen, who
received master’s and doctoral degrees from
Harvard University and a M.Phil and PhD from the University of
Cambridge, has been affiliated with the University of Chicago since
1997. |