The following announcement arrived via e-mail:

Professor Martha Nussbaum, of the University of Chicago, will be presenting a university lecture on Thursday, February 16th 2006. Her lecture, “Radical Evil in Liberal Democracies: The Neglect of Political Emotions,” will be at 4:00 p.m. in the Davidson Conference Center; a reception will follow the lecture. Her visit is sponsored by the Committee for the 125th Anniversary and the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture.
Martha Nussbaum is among the most distinguished figures in law and philosophy today, teaching and writing across a wide range of fascinating fields and possessing one of the most powerful voices in the public arena for the continued meaning and significance of the humanities. She is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, holding appointments in the Philosophy Department, Law School and Divinity School. Among her many publications are The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986, updated edition 2000), Love’s Knowledge (1990), The Therapy of Desire (1994), Poetic Justice (1996), For Love of Country (1996), Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1997), Sex and Social Justice (1998), Women and Human Development (2000), Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001), and Hiding From
Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004). Her new book, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, will be published by Harvard University Press in fall 2005. She received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction for 1990, and the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays in 1991; Cultivating Humanity won the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1998, and the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002.Sex and Social Justice won the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in 2000. Hiding From Humanity won the Association of American University Publishers Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law in 2004.
The lecture is free of charge, however seating is limited and reservations are required. Please log on to www.usc.edu/esvp to reserve your seat, and use # 2525 as your ESVP code.
More Information, please contact the Office of Protocol and University Events, (213) 740-1744.