DATE: Jan. 28, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Doc Rando Hall at UNLV

DETAILS: Free and open to the public

Martha Nussbaum, an American philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago, will give a talk titled "Not For Profit: Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship."

Nussbaum - a specialist in classical Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics - is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

Her research interests include classical Greek philosophy, current issues in education, civil rights, the status of women, Southern Asia and law. Nussbaum is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

Nussbaum is the author of several books including "The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy," "Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education," and the forthcoming "Not for Profit: Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship."

This event is sponsored by the UNLV English Department KVBC Lecture Series. For more information, call the department of English, (702) 895-3533 or visit http://english.unlv.edu/.