The Dean’s Office and the workshop together invite you to join us for a conversation with Richard B. Miller.  Professor Miller is a candidate for a senior position in ethics at the Divinity School.  This is a fantastic opportunity for us to get to know his work and to interact with him in a structured but informal setting.

Lunch will be provided. The paper should be read in advance. It can be downloaded here with your CNET ID and Password.

During his visit to campus, there are two other opportunities to get to know Professor Miller:

Monday, November 4, 2013, 4:30 pm. The Third Floor Lecture Hall.
Public Lecture with Richard B. Miller, “Moral Authority in an Age of Ethnocentric Anxiety.”

Tuesday, November 5th, 9 am. The Common Room.
Student Roundtable with Richard Miller. Coffee and nosh provided.

Richard B. Miller (PhD, University of Chicago, 1985) is Provost Professor in Religious Studies at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1985. From 2003-13 he was Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at IU. His research interests include religion and public life, political and social ethics, theory and method in religious thought and ethics, and practical ethics. Miller is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1991); Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (University of Chicago Press, 1996); Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine (Indiana University Press, 2003), and Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought (Columbia University Press, 2010).