USA Africa Dialogue Series -

Dear Colleagues thank you for supporting our lecture series on Black
Lives Matter. We have several more coming up. the next one is on Tuesday.

Department of Religion
presents a
Fall 2020
Rockwell Lecture Series on Black Lives Matter

October 6, 2020
2:00 pm (CST) Via Zoom

Talk title: At E.A.S.E.: Representation and the Limits of Social Justice
Speaker: Kirsten Buick, University of New Mexico

Since the enlightenment, empathy has been both an effective and
affective tool in the struggle for and against human rights. Empathy
rests most narrowly on the fantasy that I can feel what you feel, and on
the precondition that in order to act on your behalf your embodied
experiences must be accessible to my own. When conceptualized as a
"social emotion"— one group acting on behalf of or against the interests
of another group—empathy has proven to be historically at fault for the
limitations of social justice movements. This lecture will explore the
crucial role that representation plays in these fantasies of
appropriated embodiment and progress. From the Wedgwood Medallion (1787)
to the current debates around Confederate monuments and public space,
how do we approach empathy as a social emotion (how do we get at
E.A.S.E.)? Perhaps it is time, following Professor Paul Bloom, that we
make the case for "rational compassion" and the reenvisioning of public
space and thus social relations.

Kirsten Pai Buick is Professor of Art History at the University of New
Mexico. She has published extensively on African American art, and she
has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. In 2015, she
was chosen as the eleventh recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize for
excellence in African American Art. Her book, Child of the Fire: Mary
Edmonia Lewis and the 'Problem' of Art History's Black and Indian
Subject, is published by Duke University Press. Her second book, In
Authenticity: 'Kara Walker' and the Eidetics of Racism is in progress.

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Registration is required and made available here.
<https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/118174>.
This lecture series is sponsored by the Rockwell Foundation.
Free and open to the public.


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