FSU’s Distinguished Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion, Sumner Twiss, PhD, will present two dynamic lectures to the campus community March 9 and 10.
Humanities and Atrocities
March 9 at 7 pm in DAV130
Twiss will discuss human rights atrocities like the Holocaust and the Belgian Congo and how people can treat each other so harshly. To help us better understand the causes of these atrocities, Twiss will examine novels, autobiography and testimonial literature including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Elie Wiesel's novels, the autobiography of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoess, and Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader. “I hope that examination of these texts can empower us to prevent such human atrocities from reoccurring,” Twiss said.
Theology, Tolerance and Two Declarations of Human Rights: An Interrogative Comparison
March 10 at 10:30 am at Williams House
In this small-group setting, Twiss will look at the role religious conceptions play, and should play, to establish human rights policies. If you are interested in attending this lecture, please contact Hugh LaFollette for a copy of the paper that will be discussed.
Twiss is the editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics and focuses his work on contemporary moral problems, religious ethics, philosophy and theory of religion and comparative moral and religious thought. He is also the senior editor of Advancing Human Rights, a new book series published by Georgetown University Press.
For more information about these lectures, please contact Cole Chair of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette at hughlafollette@tampabay.rr.com.
