Michael Ignatieff gave a Gifford lecture entitled 'The Lesser Evil - Political Ethics in an Age of Terror' Image Event details Lecture Series Theme: The Lesser Evil - Political Ethics in an Age of Terror Dates: 6-16 January 2003 Biography Michael Ignatieff was born and educated in Toronto, Canada. He gained a doctorate in history at Harvard University and held a senior research fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge and visiting posts at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris; the University of California at Berkeley; Notre Dame; Princeton University; Amherst College; the University of London; and the London School of Economics. His academic publications include: A Just Measure of Pain: Penitentiaries in the Industrial Revolution (1978)and Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (1983). A regular broadcaster and critic on television and radio, his work includes the award-winning series Blood and Belonging, examining the issue of nationalism in the late twentieth century. His acclaimed biography Isaiah Berlin: A Life, the result of ten year’s research was published in 1998. Scar Tissue (1993) was short-listed for the Booker Prize for fiction. His new novel Charlie Johnson in the Flames will be published in late 2003. He has written three books on ethnic war and intervention: Blood and Belonging (1993), The Warrior’s Honour (1998) and Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000). A fourth volume, Empire Lite: Nation-building in Afghanistan and Kosovo will be published in the spring of 2003. His writing on rights includes: The Rights Revolution (2000) and Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001). He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Financial Times and The Guardian. He has recently served as a member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and the International Commission on Sovereignty and Intervention. He is currently Director of the Carr Center and Professor of Practice of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This article was published on 2024-08-28
