Capita Senior Fellow Ian Marcus Corbin speaks with author Jennifer Banks about her book "Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth."
Capita Senior Fellow Ian Marcus Corbin speaks with author Jennifer Banks about her book "Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth."
Ian Marcus Corbin
Ian is a Senior Fellow at Capita. He is also a philosopher on the Neurology faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative. He serves on the ethics committee at Brigham and Women's, and helps to direct the Trust and Belonging Initiative at Harvard's Human Flourishing Program. He has studied politics, religion and philosophy at Gordon College, Oxford University, Yale University and Boston College, with an eye to the ways that deep human values function in the formation and evolution of human communities.
At Harvard Medical School, he studies intersubjectivity, cognition and human flourishing. He is currently writing a book on belonging and world-making for Yale University Press. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the Boston area and published widely in venues such as the Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Point and Plough. In a former life he founded and ran a contemporary art gallery in Boston's South End.
Jennifer Banks
Publishing professional with a wide range of experience, from foreign rights and marketing to editorial. Since 2007, as an editor at Yale University Press, Jennifer has built up a diverse, interdisciplinary list in the humanities that has emphasized non-fiction books on religion. She has edited many New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, MacArthur Genius Grant, and Grawemeyer Award-winning authors.