CPU Newsletter

November 15, 2005

CPU EVENT: "Religion and Politics: New Dangers and Old Threats" with Elisabeth Sifton, Senior VP of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, and daughter of Reinhold Niebuhr (TONIGHT, 7:45PM, W569)

1. The CPU "Philosophy, Culture, and Society Series": "RELIGION AND
POLITICS: NEW DANGERS AND OLD THREATS"

Speaker: ELISABETH SIFTON, Senior VP of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux,
and daughter of Reinhold Niebuhr

Date: Wednesday, 11/15
Time: 7:45pm
Location: W569, Alfred Lerner Hall

Description: ELISABETH SIFTON is Senior Vice President of Farrar
Straus and Giroux and Editor-at-Large of Hill and Wang. She is also
the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of
Peace and War. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. describes the book as "a
major contribution to the intellectual history of modernity."

(For a full description of The Serenity Prayer, please visit:
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall04/032662.htm.) A New York
Times Notable Book.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Harvard University
Press Board of Directors, and the Freedom to Read Committee of the
Association of American Publishers, Mrs. Sifton has also served on
the board of directors of Union Theological Seminary and the
French-American Foundation, and the board of advisers to the Beacon
Press.

Writers whose books Elisabeth Sifton has edited and published
include Neal Ascherson, Isaiah Berlin, John Brewer, Frederick
Brown, Vladimir Dedijer, Andrew Delbanco, Ann Douglas, Ronald
Dworkin, Susan Eisenhower, Philip Gourevitch, Gerald Gunther, James
Hershberg, Stanley Hoffmann, Michael Howard, Michael Ignatieff, Roy
Jenkins, Stanley Karnow, John Keegan, Sunil Khilnani, Nicholas
Lemann, J.R. MacArthur, Robert MacNeil, Avishai Margalit, Ernest
May, Edward Mendelson, Newton Minow, Dan Morgan, Victor Navasky,
Michael Novacek, Fintan O’Toole, Sydney Schanberg, Jonathan Spence,
Stella Tillyard, Lewis Thomas, Adam Ulam, and Jules Witcover.
Poets, novelists and critics she has published include John
Ashbery, Bruce Chatwin, Robertson Davies, Don DeLillo, Stuart
Dybek, Leslie Forbes, Carlos Fuentes, William Gaddis, Allan
Gurganus, Richard Howard, Frank Kermode, Peter Matthiessen, J.D.
McClatchy, Péter Nádas, R.K. Narayan, Richard Poirier, Gregor von
Rezzori, Charles Rosen, William Trevor, Marina Warner, and Geoffrey
Wolff.

Ms. Sifton is also the daughter of Reinhold Niebuhr.

The CPU thanks The Blue and White and the Columbia Journal of
Literary Criticism for their co-sponsorship.

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