Remak Award

Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study has appointed John Lucaites and Jon Simons as Henry H.H. Remak Distinguished Scholars for 2011-12. This award was created in 1994 to honor Professor Henry Remak, who served the university with distinction for over sixty-five years as a scholar, teacher, and administrator. He directed the Institute for Advanced Study from 1988 to 1994 and from 1997 to 1998. The award recognizes the enthusiasm Professor Remak had for scholarship in all fields and the mission of the Institute to promote innovative ways of thinking... Read more >>

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Institute for Advanced Study/Poynter Center Symposium Empathy: Self, Society, Culture November 11-12, 2011 at Indiana University Bloomington This three-day symposium was part of a larger project designed to examine how the humanities and sciences might cooperate to develop understandings of virtue in modern society. It brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the theories and practices of empathy in both formal and informal sessions. The three featured speakers, Carolyn Dean, Nancy Eisenberg, and Nancy Sherman, each presented a paper on one of the conference's main themes: Carolyn Dean was the featured plenary speaker for Empathy in Culture, History, and Society and presented a paper entitled "The Longing for Human Dignity and its Relation to 'Virtuous' Empathy"; Nancy Eisenberg presented "Empathy-Related Responding in Children: Relations with Positive Moral and Social Development" as part of the section on Empathy and Psychology; and Nancy Sherman was the speaker for the Empathy and Ethics section of the symposium and presented a paper entitled "Recovering Lost Goodness: Self-Empathy and Self-Forgiveness."

For more information about both the symposium and the larger project on empathy, please visit: The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions

Carolyn Dean, History and International Studies, Brown University	Nancy Eisenberg, Psychology, Arizona State University	Nancy Sherman, Philosophy, Georgetown University

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