Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Series

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
Faith, Ethics, and Truth in the Twenty-first Century

A Lecture by Rob Riemen

Founder and Director of the Nexus Institute, The Netherlands
Author of The Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

Yale University Press

Friday, February 20th, 5PM
Sweeney Hall, Jacobs School of Music
Reception following - Auer Hall Green Room - Meet Mr. Riemen

Rob Riemen founded the Nexus Institute in 1994, an international center devoted to intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and philosophical debate. The annual public Nexus Lectures read like a Who’s Who of major thinkers and artists. Riemen’s book, Nobility of Spirit, has garnered high praise from many quarters. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa comments: “the author’s vast cultural knowledge, his firm commitment to liberal ideals, and the agility of his pen make these essays an invaluable guide to orient us amid the great political and cultural problems—and the ideological confusions—of the world in which we live.”

Sponsors of the lecture include Religious Studies, Anthropology, the Poynter Center
for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, the West European Studies Center,
the Institute for Advanced Study, the Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Series, and the
Office of the Vice-President for International Affairs.