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The Communitarian Update
Number 15
March 3, 1999
World Wide Communitarian Discourse
Professor Dr. Ernst Hirsch Ballin of Tilburg University in The Netherlands is planning
to establish a web site for ongoing discussion of comparative communitarianism.
For more information, contact him at Ballin@kub.nl.
H-Communitarian is coming soon. A communitarian site will be hosted in the
United States by H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line, an Internet
forum for scholars which is operated by Michigan State University, and supported
by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the US Information Agency.
This will allow an ongoing moderated international dialogue. The address will
be available soon.
Third Way Meeting
CIVICA is organizing a meeting of The First Congress of the Third Sector,
Solidarity & Philanthropy, in Madrid, May 3 - 5, 1999. This will be the
one of the most prestigious gatherings on the topic of civil society ever
to take place in Spain. Participants include political leaders, humanitarian
and cultural organizations, top intellectuals, and policy experts. For more
information, contact Enrique Buil at (011)34.1.577.4797.
New Communitarian Position Paper Available on the Web
Communitarian Position Papers and Reports explore the communitarian perspectives
on some of the most critical issues which Americans face. In "The Relationship
of Religion to Moral Education in the Public Schools" Charles Haynes and Warren
Nord describe the civic and educational principles that should guide the instruction
of religion in public schools. They sketch a general theory of moral education that
conceives a liberal education as a moral education. The authors offer a series of
recommendations for reforming education in a manner that takes seriously religion
and moral education. The full text of this incisive, timely analysis is available
at http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps in the Publications Catalogue area.
The Limits of Privacy Book Tour
Amitai Etzioni will discussing and debating his just published book, The Limits
of Privacy (Basic Books, 1999) at:
March 8 -- Harvard, The Kennedy School of Government, Fainsod Room, 4:00 PM
March 8 -- The Harvard Coop, 7:00 PM
March 9 -- Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson School, Bowl 2, 4:30 PM
March 10 -- Duke University, a debate with Political Scientist Michael Munger,
Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Room 05, 12:30 PM
March 17 -- Philadelphia, panel discussion at The Wharton School of Business,
SH-DH Room 1206, 4:30 PM.
April 1 -- Seattle, University of Washington School of Law, 12:00 PM
April 2 -- University of California-Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy,
1:00 PM
April 5 -- UCLA Law School, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
April 7 -- George Washington University's Public Health Week, panel discussion,
at Ross Hall, 4:15 PM
For more information please contact us at comnet@gwu.edu.
The Communitarian Summit
A heartfelt thank you to all the participants, attendees, and staff who helped
make the Communitarian Summit the largest and most successful event ever held
by the Communitarian Network.
The Communitarian Update is edited by Andrew S. Becker. Please send any news
items or questions to comnet@gwu.edu.
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