Please take a moment to check out two amazing pieces from members of our UConn community on the Blog of the APA: an essay written by visiting scholar Dr. Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, and a piece by UConn Philosophy alumnus Thomas Meagher. Congratulations!
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Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Sobre a Colonialidade doSer and El Mostrador
Please check out two new items from Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres: a new translation of his writings in Portuguese, and a reference to his work in El Mostrador, a Chilean newspaper.
Congratulations, Nelson!
Lewis Gordon: Interview in Newsweek
Check out Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon’s recent interview in Newsweek, “Kanye West Confused About Antisemitism and Racism, Professor Says.”
Lewis Gordon: Kanye West and the Age of the Unmanageable
Check out Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon’s comments on Kanye West in the Financial Times, “Kanye West and the Age of the Unmanageable.”
Nelson Maldonado-Torres: “Decolonizing Academia”
Check out Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres’ recent interview in “Decolonizing Academia: Obstacles and Paths Forward,” published in Chinese Social Sciences Today.
Lewis Gordon: History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Listen to Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon as he discusses Frantz Fanon on “History of Philosophy without any gaps.” In this podcast Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King’s College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, “without any gaps.” The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context […]
Lewis Gordon: Eminent Scholar Roundtable
Congratulations to Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon, honoree of the Global Development Studies Eminent Scholar Roundtable 2021-2022 organized by the International Studies Association.
Tracy Llanera: The Ambivalence of Resistance
Check out Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s recent piece on resilience, which examines the extent to which it can, albeit virtuous, be used as weapon for further exploitation of the already exploited.
Ayanna De’Vante Spencer: Believing Black Girl Survivors?
Check out Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ayanna De’Vante Spencer, in The Review’s recent articled titled “Believing Black Girl Survivors?” Spencer addresses unjust treatment of Black female survivors, incorporating the justice system and criminalizing survivors over supporting them.
Tracy Llanera: “Yes, You Do Deserve a Little Treat”
Check out Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s recent article in The New York Times, “Yes, You Do Deserve a Little Treat” *Excerpt* Tracy Llanera, 35, a philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut who studies nihilism, said that this treat-forward approach is one way people are reclaiming some of the freedom and stability that has been lost […]