Veritas Forum Conversation on the Purpose of Education
Join us for a conversation on the purpose of education with UVA Professor of Sociology, Angel Parham, and UVA Professor of English, Mark Edmundson.
March 17, 2027 | Time and location TBA
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About our Speakers
Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology, senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and Associate Director of Political and Social Thought at UVA. She is the author of the award-winning American Routes (2017) and co-author of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature (2022). Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Parham is also co-founder and executive director of Nyansa Classical Community, an educational organization that invites students from diverse backgrounds to engage with classical education and pursue truth, goodness, and beauty. A former Fulbright scholar, she holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Mark Edmundson is a Professor of English at UVA, where he specializes in nineteenth-century American and British literature, poetry, and Romanticism. He is the author of numerous books exploring literature, education, and culture. His most recent book, The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World (2023), examines contemporary culture through the lens of Freudian psychology. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and other publications. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Edmundson earned his Ph.D. from Yale University.
This event was a partnership between the Center for Christian Study and the Veritas Forum.
