Origins of Freedom 360° Symposium
How might human beings live according to nature? Is property natural? Is freedom or unfreedom? How can studying human societies in the past inform collective organization in the present? "Origins of Freedom" examines property, nature, and freedom as concepts for understanding the history of human civilization from the deep past until the present. Integrating archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, and political theory, this cluster investigates the origins of freedom through lenses of individual, social, and political agency, as well as the stories we tell (and the evidence we marshal) to support these views.
The symposium will open with a group reflection activity, will include presentations from students in the 360° cluster, and will close with a group discussion.
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