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A talk by Professor Lewis Gordon, Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut
This talk will first offer a critique of the tendency to treat critical work on race as the aim to reduce race to other more accepted or preferred categories of analysis such as class on one hand or individualistic models of cognitive attitudes on the other. It will then move to some prominent efforts such as intersectionality and social constructivity followed by discussions of critical theoretical, decolonial, and pessimistic considerations on one hand and challenges posed by existential phenomenological structuralist ones, which include the speaker’s advancement of transdisciplinary analysis and study, on the other with concluding reflections on the importance of dignity and political transformation.
Lewis R. Gordon is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He is also Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021); Fear of Black Consciousness (Penguin, 2022); Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon, edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey (Bloomsbury, 2023); and “Not Bad for an N—, No?”/ «Pas mal pour un N—, n'est-ce pas? »(Daraja Press, 2023). His accolades include the 2022 Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association.
This event is free and open to all, no booking required.
- Speaker
- Professor Lewis Gordon
- Venue
- King's Conference Centre
- Contact
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Ritu Vij, Senior Lecturer, Politics & International Relations r.vij@abdn.ac.uk