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Profs. John J. MacAloon and Martha C. Nussbaum are the recipients of this year’s Norman Maclean Faculty Award, which honors their extraordinary contributions to teaching and student life within the University of Chicago community.Established in 1997,

We take the Web for granted as that thing thats there and we talk of things being good or bad for the Web, but we dont ever sit down and really say what the Web is for. I take a look at this question with an eye towards understanding what it is we need to do to build a Web thats actually better.

Camille Labchuk cares deeply for animals. She says viewing images of commercial seal killings on the news left an indelible impression on her as a child growing up on Canada’s East Coast.

This book examines the Europeanisation of gender policies and addresses some of the challenges of the debates surrounding the domestic impact of the European Union. By taking Turkey as a case study, it illustrates that Europeanisation needs a feminist agenda and perspective.

The 2020 and 2021 Holberg Prizes were conferred upon Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, respectively.

ABSTRACT: Isaiah Berlin made the distinction between negative liberty and positive liberty. Since then, prominent contemporary philosophers including Charles Taylor and Martha Nussbaum have declared negative liberty insufficient or incoherent. This is a critique of those declarations, which have been unduly accepted to a large extent. The critique primarily focuses on Taylor, who made the most direct and complete argument against negative liberty. His argument is shown to be ineffective. And fu...

 E-Mail (Bergen, Norway): Today, the Holberg Prize--one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology--named American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as its 2021 Laureate. Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She will receive the award of NOK 6,000,000 (approx. EUR 585,000 / USD 705,000) during a 9 June ceremony at the Universit...

In India, mainstream environmentalism and development situate biodiversity conservation and human well-being as mutually exclusive goals. This is contentious because a large section of India’s population has inextricable economic, social, political, and cultural linkages with its rich biodiversity. The 4-Cs framework is suggested to address human well-being within the purview of ecosystem assessment and management by incorporating multiple social-ecological variables. Examples of domains, att...