Georgetown Hosts a Prominent British Philosopher in a Lecture on the Future of Education

The Master and founder of London’s New College of the Humanities, Professor A. C. Grayling, will be delivering a public lecture titled “A Philosophical Perspective on the Future of Education” on the campus of Georgetown University in Qatar on March 7th, at 5:30 pm. Casting a global perspective, the scholar and prolific writer will discuss why education should be adapted to the condition of the twenty-first century and its complex future.

Professor Grayling, who has been called “Britain’s most eminent publicly engaged philosopher” is visiting Education City as part of a region-wide tour. His public Georgetown event will be paired with a separate visit to Doha College where he will engage students in a discussion on philosophy and where he is scheduled to present a lecture to their faculty on The Value of Humanities in Modern Society. His last stop will be at the Emirates Festival of Literature in Dubai, where he will talk about his new book titled The Age of Genius.

A. C. Grayling is also a Professor of Philosophy at the London-based New College of the Humanities, which launched as an institution of higher education in 2012, and the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He is a columnist for Prospect magazine, and was for a number of years a columnist on the Guardian and Times. He has contributed to many leading newspapers in the UK, US and Australia, and to BBC radios 4, 3, 2 and the World Service, and he has often appeared on television.

He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Anthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.