Professor Lewis Gordon served as a panelist on the Pan-African Forums: Africa Day event hosted by The Elephant. *** To commemorate Africa Day, we think about how Pan-Africanism has reproduced itself, evolved theoretically and practically in different spaces through reflection and critique, and catalysed a range of important initiatives all over Global Africa, focusing on […]
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Tracy Llanera: Interview on Ideas (CBC Radio Canada)
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera and her co-author James Tartaglia (Keele University) were recently interviewed on the radio show Ideas (CBC Radio Canada). It will also air on Australia’s Radio National: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/good-news-for-nihilists-life-is-meaningless-after-all-say-philosophers-1.6036427. The focus was their book A Defence of Nihilism (Routledge, 2021).
Tracy Llanera: “Combatting Toxic Cultures in Academia”
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera gave the opening remarks and a lecture titled “Subordination, Submission, and Suppression” on the theme “Combatting Toxic Cultures in Academia,” hosted by Women Doing Philosophy and Beyond the Ghetto, on May 21, 2021. The recorded public lecture can be found here.
Lewis Gordon: 47th Connecticut People’s World African-American History Month Celebration
Read about the 47th Connecticut People’s World African-American History Month Celebration, “Georgia On My Mind, The Third Reconstruction,” in People’s World. Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon served as the keynote speaker for the event.
Stewart Shapiro: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Visiting Professor Stewart Shapiro has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges. Founded in 1780, the American Academy […]
Lewis Gordon: “How the Court of Law Needs to Change for Racial Justice in America”
Listen to Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon’s recent interview on Let’s Go There with Shira & Ryan, “Racial Justice in America: Police Officers Need to be Subject to the Law and Not Above the Law.” **Episode Description** “Minnesota is in a state of crisis. During the high profile trial of Derek Chauvin trial for […]
Lewis Gordon: “Derek Chauvin Trial”
Read Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon’s recent article, “Derek Chauvin Trial: 3 Questions America Needs to Ask About Seeking Racial Justice in a Court of Law.” **Excerpt from the article** There are three questions I find important to consider as the trial unfolds. These questions address the legal, moral and political legitimacy of any […]
Jane Gordon: “Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg”
Check out “Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg” edited by Affiliate Professor Jane Gordon and Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers). Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this […]
Alexus McLeod: Aeon+Psyche Pick from the Archive
Psyche, a digital magazine run by Aeon Media Group that explores the human condition through mental health, the question of “how to live,” and the arts and transcendent experience, has selected Associate Professor Alexus McLeod’s 2020 essay as the editor’s pick from the archive. Read “Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal” […]
Lewis R. Gordon—Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization,” The Brainwaves Anthology (31 January 2021).
Check out Professor Lewis Gordon’s latest video “Lewis R. Gordon—Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization” where he discusses the publication of his latest book published February 2021.