Europe's Public Sphere—Christian J. Emden Delivers Lübeck Lecture

On April 6, Christian J. Emden, Associate Professor, gave the 2009 Lübeck Lecture at Ohio State University on "The Nation State as a Social Imaginary: Political Realism Beyond the Liberal Public Sphere." The topic of the lecture followed a two-year research collaboration between Rice University and the University of Cambridge, England, on Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere. The results will be published later this year in two volumes: David Midgley and Christian J. Emden (eds.), Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere (New York: Berghahn, 2009), and Public Interests, Public Spheres: Knowledge, Governance, and Civil Society (New York, Berghahn, 2009).