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X-WR-CALNAME:Philosophy and Literature: Indignity: A Life Reimagined
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DESCRIPTION:With Speaker Lea Ypi (Professor in Politics and Philosophy at L
 SE)\n\nRSVP Here\n\nIndignity: A Life Reimagined is Lea Ypi's most recent 
 venture into philosophical literature. Her first book Free\, was a memoir 
 detailing her upbringing in Albania before and after the fall of communism
 \, and an exploration of the varying conceptions of freedom attendant to h
 er personal and historical setting. Her most recent book is a biographical
  reimagination of the mysterious life of her grandmother. Ypi discovers a 
 photo of her grandmother\, Leman\, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941\, and 
 she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up\, she was told all reco
 rds of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of commu
 nism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband\, Asllan Ypi: glamor
 ous newlyweds while World War II raged. What follows is a reimagining of t
 he past\, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy\, the making 
 of modern Greece and Albania\, a global financial crisis\, and the horrors
  of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. The recent book centers 
 conceptions of dignity and indignity\, and raises a number of philosophica
 lly interesting questions about our relation to the past.\n\nIn her talk\,
  Ypi will share some passages of Indignity\, and discuss the method of the
  book\, her turn to philosophical literature\, and the relation between ph
 ilosophy\, history\, and literature. \n\nLea Ypi is Professor in Politics 
 and Philosophy at LSE. She has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature fro
 m the University of Rome La Sapienza\, a PhD from the European University 
 Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield Colleg
 e\, Oxford. She is the author of Indignity: A Life Reimagined and Free: Co
 ming of Age at the end of History\, as well as Global Justice and Avant-Ga
 rde Political Agency\, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White)\,
  and The Architectonic of Reason. Her work has been translated into more t
 han thirty-five languages and won numerous prizes.\n\nSponsor: DLCL\, Phil
 osophy Department\, The Research Workshop in Literature\, Philosophy\, and
  the Arts
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LOCATION:Building 260\, Pigott Hall\, Room 252
SUMMARY:Philosophy and Literature: Indignity: A Life Reimagined
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 ea-ypi
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