Symposium | Human Oneness

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center on Modernity in Transition on February 6th and 7th for the Human Oneness Symposium. The concepts that express our shared humanity are proving inadequat4e to the challenges we face. Terms such as cosmopolitanism, humanism, and universalism can trigger unease in academic and public discourse, revealing that how we understand our oneness as human beings requires reconsideration. This transdisciplinary symposium gathers an international group of leading thinkers to engage this task. Specifically, the symposium will constructively address a set of dilemmas that surround the concept of human oneness, including the tensions between unity and diversity, universalism and justice, essentialism and constructivism, the secular and the sacred, and human beings and their natural environment.

This symposium will be complemented by a series of public events. We hope to cultivate a sustained and dynamic community of inquiry on this essential theme.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and the Center on Modernity in Transition.