Should the European Union embrace a pluralistic, diverse identity rather than trying to form a homogeneous national identity?
Should the European Union embrace a pluralistic, diverse identity rather than trying to form a homogeneous national identity?
Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe will explore that question in the free public talk “An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mouffe, professor of political theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, will give this year’s Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies in the Hanes Art Center auditorium. The center is off South Columbia Street beside the Ackland Art Museum.
Questions and answers, then a reception and book sale, will follow the talk. The lecture will be presented by UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, a part of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The annual Reckford Lecture aims to introduce a general audience to an interdisciplinary study of modern and historical Europe through a humanistic lens. UNC classics professor emeritus Kenneth J. Reckford established the lecture in 1990 to honor his late wife, Mary Stevens Reckford. For more information on the lecture and names of past lecturers, visit http://iah.unc.edu/programs/community-programs/lectures/reckford.
Mouffe website: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/humanities/politics-and-international-relations/people/staff/mouffe,-chantal
Institute for the Arts and Humanities website: www.iah.unc.edu
Institute for the Arts and Humanities contact: Kirsten Beattie, (919) 259-9995,
kbeattie@email.unc.edu