Tomorrow, I will be participating in a faculty symposium at North Central College on the topic of empathy, where I will be representing the College of Arts and Sciences alongside presenters from the School of Business and Entrepreneurship and the School of Education and Health Sciences. My presentation will draw on my research into awkwardness, reconceiving the awkward cringe as a form of radical empathy.
Then this weekend, I will be presenting at “Transfinite Life: A Symposium in Honor of Bruce Rosenstock,” sponsored by the Department of Religion and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). My paper in honor of my late mentor and friend will be entitled “Bruce Rosenstock’s Secular Paulinism.” You can read my paper here.
Adam Kotsko 