THE PUBLIC THINKING LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS

Elizabeth Bruenig

“AT THE LIMITS OF FORGIVENESS”

March 27, 2023 at 5 p.m.
University of Chicago
Oriental Institute | Breasted Hall
1155 E. 58th St.

On Monday, March 27th, The Atlantic writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Bruenig will be delivering a public lecture at the University of Chicago on “the limits of forgiveness” in modern American life. What is the relationship between forgiveness and justice? Why does the idea of forgiveness or mercy tend to provoke such hostility? For all its importance, forgiveness remains a vexed and mysterious concept, both interpersonally and politically. Is it possible to reclaim it as a social virtue?

This will be the inaugural address in the new Public Thinking Lecture Series at the University of Chicago, hosted by The Point Program for Public Thinking, the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse, and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.