Public lecture: Dr. Richard Shweder: The Moral Challenge of Robust Cultural Pluralism
Renowned cultural anthropologist Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago to speak at U of S.
The Moral Challenge of a Robust Cultural Pluralism
The Culture, Health and Human Development Program in the Department of Psychology is pleased to present a public lecture by Dr. Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago entitled "The Moral Challenge of a Robust Cultural Pluralism."
Monday, Dec. 14, 2015
3:00 p.m.
Arts 146, U of S
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has received numerous prestigious awards, fellowships and prizes throughout his illustrious career, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological Prize for his essay, Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally? He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and formerly co-chaired a joint Social Science Research Council/Russell Sage Foundation Working Group on Law and Culture.
Professor Shweder’s work as a cultural psychologist explores issues of moral reasoning, emotional functioning, gender roles, explanations of illness, causal ideas about suffering and the moral foundations of family life practices in the Hindu temple town of Bhubaneswar, India. He has recently turned his attention to the challenges and limitations of cultural pluralism in Western liberal democracies.
He is the author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology and Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology (both published by Harvard University Press); and editor or co-editor of many books in the areas cultural psychology, psychological anthropology and comparative human development, including Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion; Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development; Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities; Ethnography and Human Development: Meaning and Context in Social Inquiry; and Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions).
Everyone is welcome to attend this lecture. For more information, please contact Jan Gelech at jan.gelech@usask.ca