USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Lewis R Gordon on Black Lives Matter

Department of Religion 

presents a

Fall 2020

Rockwell Lecture Series on Black Lives Matter

 

October 1, 2020 

2:00 pm (CST) Via Zoom

 

Talk title: Fighting Against Racism for Democracy

Speaker: Lewis R. Gordon, U-CONN-Storrs

 

Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician who achieved his Ph.D. in philosophy with distinction from Yale University. Gordon's research in philosophy is in Africana philosophy, philosophy of existence, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, philosophy of culture, race, and racism, aesthetics, philosophy of education, philosophy of science and technology, philosophy of human sciences, philosophy of psychiatry, and philosophy of medicine, psychiatry, and  psychoanalysis. He is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at UCONN-Storrs, where he also has affiliations in Judaic Studies, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies.  His visiting appointments include Philosophy and Government at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, and Honorary Professor in (UHURU) the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes in South Africa, where he was formerly the Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Chair in Political and International Studies (2014, 2015). His previous appointments include The Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in the Faculty for Economics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal; the European Union Chair in Euro-Philosophy at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France (2014–2019); Writer-in-Residence at the Birkbeck School of Law at the University of London (2016), the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University (2004–2013), where he founded and directed the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University (1996–2004). Gordon has held Visiting Professorship at Yale University, Purdue University (1993–1996). His major works include Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Humanities, 1995), which will appear in a revised 25th anniversary edition with a foreword by Mabogo More, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man, which will appear in a 25th anniversary edition with commentary by an international group of scholars under Routledge in 2020, Her Majesty's Other Children, which won the Gustavus Meyer Award for Outstanding work on Human Rights, Existentia Africana, and An Introduction to Africana Philosophy, a major resource for Africana Philosophy. In addition, Gordon, co-edits with Jane Anna Gordon the book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought and the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs. He is Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies and a former president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, for which he now serves as its chairperson of awards and global collaborations. Gordon has served a doctoral thesis here in the Department of Religion, and supervised many students around the world.

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Registration is required and made available here. 
This lecture series is sponsored by the Rockwell Foundation.
Free and open to the public.