Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke (2000), tells the story of an ex-banker and heroin addict in contemporary Lahore. It was published in 14 languages and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.  His second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), recounts a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York. Published in over 30 languages, it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.  Hamid's next novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), is both a…

The Kenan Institute for Ethics welcomes Christy Wampole, associate professor of French and Italian at Princeton University, for a lecture on utopian models of the university in history.  Dr. Wampole holds a PhD in French and Italian from Stanford University.  She is the author of Rootness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (U Chicago Press, 2016) and The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation (Harper Collins, 2016).

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATE TBD. Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will give the third Luce Anthropocene lecture on October 15th.  “The Global and the Planetary: The Great Divergence of the Anthropocene" Monday, October 15th, 6:00 pm Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Rubenstein Library 153) Dr. Chakrabarty is known for his work on modern South Asian history and historiography; subaltern, indigenous, and minority histories; decolonization; and environmental history…