Bringing Social
Awareness to
Troubled Times
“May you live in interesting times” is an English expression said to be translated from a Chinese curse that implies ‘uninteresting’ times are a lot more conducive to harmonious living. The phrase may be apocryphal, but in today’s turbulent world it seems apropos and, as the new Dean of Social Sciences points out, ironically, troubled times make the study of Social Sciences, a subject born in the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century, more relevant now
than ever.
