Lecture by Professor Jürgen Habermas on 15 June 2010.
The School of Philosophy is delighted to announce that Professor Jürgen Habermas (emeritus, University of Frankfurt am Main) will receive the UCD Ulysses Medal at a special ceremony on 16 June 2010. The Ulysses medal is the highest academic honour that the university can bestow and is awarded to those whose work has made an outstanding global contribution.
Professor Habermas will give an academic lecture on 15 June at 6pm in the Clinton Auditorium, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies. The title is: ‘The Political’: The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology.
Admission is free. All welcome, but no reservation of seats is possible, so early arrival is advised. The Clinton Auditorium is no. 30 on the UCD Belfield campus map: http://www.ucd.ie/virtualtour/map_print.htm
UCD School of Philosophy gratefully acknowledges the support of the Goethe Institute, Dublin, the German Embassy, Dublin and the College of Human Sciences, UCD.