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Islam and the West
Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World
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Monday, March 10, 2003
12:00 PM
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Monday, March 10, 2003
2:30 PM
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EPPC Conference Center
1015 15th St NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC
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The massive changes that swept the world in the last decade led many to assume that traditional societies would be subordinated to the comprehensive and irreversible movement of globalization. But the terrorist attacks of September 11 revealed a world driven less by economics than by traditional notions of identity, belief, and honor. What is the role of honor in Muslim culture and politics? To what extent is Muslim radicalism a response to the perception that Islam has been humiliated and dishonored by the West? How does honor and its demands affect the relationships between Islam and America?
The Ethics and Public Policy Center has invited Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed to present his observations and reflections on these and other questions. Dr. Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of International Relations at American University. An accomplished scholar and filmmaker, he is the author of a number of books, including the forthcoming Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World. Dr. Ahmed previously held academic positions at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities, and served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Kingdom.
After Dr. Ahmed’s presentation, James Bowman, a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will give a response, and a discussion will follow. His writings on politics, culture, and movies have appeared in The New Criterion, National Review Online, The Times Literary Supplement, The American Spectator, Crisis, and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Bowman recently delivered a Bradley Lecture on honor at the American Enterprise Institute, and is presently at work on a book on the history of honor in the twentieth century.
More Information
Kasey Cook
1015 15th St NW #900
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 682-1200 x206
Fax: (202) 408-0632
E-mail: kcook@eppc.org
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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