The scholarship of Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned author and philosopher, will be the subject of a six-month study circle sponsored by a non-profit organization in Bangladesh this fall.

The program, “Vulnerability and the Search for Justice: Martha C. Nussbaum on the Task of Philosophy,” will start in September and run through February. Over its 11 sessions, the program will highlight different aspects of Nussbaum’s work, which spans the areas of law and ethics, human rights, animal rights, and ancient philosophy. 

Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School and has a joint appointment in UChicago’s Philosophy Department. The recipient of numerous awards, she has been awarded honorary degrees from 70 colleges and universities around the world.

The program is sponsored by the Banglar Pathshala Foundation, a youth-led non-profit organization in Dhaka, Bangladesh, focused on building an equitable, classless society. The event will be held at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Building in Dhaka University. 

“Our decision to organize a study circle devoted to Professor Martha C. Nussbaum … emerged from a gradual and deeply felt recognition that her work speaks with unusual clarity and urgency to the moral and intellectual challenges of our time—especially in contexts such as ours in Bangladesh and the wider Global South,” said Ahmed Javed Chowdhury, the foundation’s founder and chairperson.

The study circle is both an intellectual tribute and a pedagogical commitment, he continued. “It is our attempt, in a modest way, to bring her ideas into a sustained, dialogic engagement with a new generation of learners—many of whom are encountering these questions under very different social and historical conditions.”

Both in-person and virtual (via Zoom) participation options are available for the program. The full program agenda for the 11 sessions and registration information are available by following this link.