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 Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the law school and philosophy department at the University of Chicago, with associate appointments in classics, divinity, and political science. The author of many influential books, Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.

Drawing on stories of troubling--and hopeful--educational developments around the globe, Nussbaum argues that a shortsighted focus on profitable skills threatens to erode our ability to criticize authority, reduce our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damage our competence to deal with complex global problems.

 This lecture, reflecting ideas Nussbaum advanced in an acclaimed book of the same title, offers a timely and provocative call for reconnecting education to the humanities—ensuring that students have the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their communities and the world.

This is a direct video feed of a live event held on the UMTC campus, sponsored by the Imagine Fund.