Center for Democratic Culture sponsors a lecture by Richard Shusterman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities. Educated at Jerusalem and Oxford, he was chair of the Temple University Philosophy Department before coming to FAU in 2005. He has held academic appointments in Paris, Berlin, and Hiroshima and was awarded senior research Fulbright and NEH fellowships.

His research covers many topics in the human and social sciences with particular emphasis on questions of philosophy, aesthetics, culture, language, identity, and embodiment. Authored books include T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (Columbia), Practicing Philosophy (Routledge), Performing Live (Cornell), Surface and Depth (Cornell), Pragmatist Aesthetics (Blackwell, translated into 12 languages), and more recently Body Consciousness (Cambridge) and Ars Erotica (Cambridge). He directs the FAU Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, as well as Center for Cosmopolitan Culture.

Shusterman will give a lecture on “Somaesthetics and Sociology of the Senses.” For further information please contact Dmitri Shalin, UNLV Center for Democratic Culture, dmitri.shalin@unlv.eu