On Cruelty: Global Reflections from the Age of Revolutions to the War on Citizenship
Schedule
9:00 Opening Remarks
Robert Crews and Aishwary Kumar (Stanford University)
Session I The Moral Universe
9:15 David Bromwich (Yale University) “Edmund Burke on Cruelty in British India”
9:45 Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine) “Hindutva and the Need for Cruelty”
Discussant: Alison McQueen (Stanford University)
11:00 Coffee Break
Session II Responsibility and Judgement
11:15 Ayten Gundogdu (Barnard College, Columbia University) “When Compassion Turns Cruel: Arendtian Reflections on the Paradoxes of Humanitarianism”
11:45 James P. Daughton (Stanford University) “Cruelty's Humanity: The Many Faces of French Colonial Humanitarianism”
Discussant: Kabir Tambar (Stanford University)
13:00 Lunch at the Humanities Center for all participants
Session III The Grammar of Cruelty
14:15 Uday Singh Mehta (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “The Logic of Cruelty and the Logic of Violence”
14:45 Kelly Grotke (Cornell University) “Universalism and Cruelty: The History of Europe and the Challenges of Syria”
Discussant: Ian Zuckerman (Stanford University)
16:00 Coffee Break
Final Reflections
16:15-17:00 Aishwary Kumar (Stanford University)
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Department of Religious Studies, The Europe Center, The France- Stanford Center for interdisciplinary Studies, Program in Global Justice, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford Global Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Humanities Center, Center for South Asia