Living in the Shadow of 9/11: A Dialogue with Jean Bethke Elshtain and Peter Berkowitz

October 12th, 4-5pm, Common Room, Swift Hall

Reception to follow

It is hard to overestimate the impact that the events of 9/11 had on American and global realities.  Simultaneously, there is profound ambiguity about the meaning of those events and the effects they have had on American life, religion, culture and politics.  It marked a new period of conflict between religion and secularism, Christianity and Islam, the West and the Middle East, freedom and security.  The “war on terror” persists, but in new forms and theaters of combat.  In dialogue with Jean Elshtain and Peter Berkowitz we will look at the meaning of 9/11 ten years later and the continuing impact it has for all facets of modern life.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of
Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School.

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University.