LSE Literary Festival lecture
Date: Saturday 13 February 2010
Time: 3-4.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett
Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge
Richard Sennett's award winning Sociology of Literature explores the role of narrative in social research and in writing sociology.
Professor Richard Sennett trained at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, receiving his PhD in 1969. He then moved to New York where, in the 1970s he founded, with Susan Sontag and Joseph Brodsky, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. In the 1980s he served as an advisor to UNESCO and as president of the American Council on Work; he also taught occasionally at Harvard. He is currently academic governor and Professor of Sociology at LSE, and divides his time between LSE and New York University. In addition to these academic homes, he maintains informal connections to MIT and to Trinity College, Cambridge University.
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