Lisa Cacho - "Tragic But Not Criminal, Challenging the 'Objective Reasonableness' of Police Killings"

The Rock Ethics Institute is cosponsoring this lecture, which is a part of "Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance", a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Series, sponsored by the Department of African American Studies. Lisa Cacho - "Tragic But Not Criminal, Challenging the 'Objective Reasonableness' of Police Killings" - Read More…

Race & Revolution: Still Separate - Still Unequal; Larry Ossei-Mensah & Katie Fuller

The Rock Ethics Institute is cosponsoring this event, which is part of the Spring 2019 John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series. Race & Revolution: Still Separate - Still Unequal; Larry Ossei-Mensah & Katie Fuller - Read More…

Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Mina Cikara, "Their Pain, Our Pleasure"

Mina Cikara, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University is the first speaker in the Expanding Empathy Speaker Series. In her lecture, she discusses factors contributing to Schadenfreude, a phenomenon that occurs when people strongly identified with their social group experiencing pleasure when they observe threatening out-group members' misfortunes. Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Mina Cikara, "Their Pain, Our Pleasure" - Read More…

The Clinic and Elsewhere Speaker Series: Aren Aizura, "Hell Holes or Saviors: Transnational Visions of Southeast Asian Trans Surgery"

Aren Aizura, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, investigates the spectrum of perspectives on the quality of care in Southeast Asian clinics providing transgender surgeries, paying particular attention to the marginalization of low-income trans people. The Clinic and Elsewhere Speaker Series: Aren Aizura, "Hell Holes or Saviors: Transnational Visions of Southeast Asian Trans Surgery" - Read More…

Rock Colloquia Series - Elizabeth Ransom

Gender and Sex Equity Initiative Speaker Series: The Clinic and Elsewhere "Curiosity, Ethics, and the Medical Management of Intersex Bodies"

Ellen Feder, Professor of Philosophy at American University and expert on the ethics of intersex medical treatment, examines the ways that intersex bodies have become "curiosities" in the medical world, as well as the consequences arising from such curiosity. Gender and Sex Equity Initiative Speaker Series: The Clinic and Elsewhere "Curiosity, Ethics, and the Medical Management of Intersex Bodies" - Read More…

"Dislocation Beyond War’s End: First World War, Armistice, and After" International Colloquium on the Occasion of the Armistice Centenary

Visit the website in the description for more information. "Dislocation Beyond War’s End: First World War, Armistice, and After" International Colloquium on the Occasion of the Armistice Centenary - Read More…

Rock Colloquia Series – Désirée Lim

The Intersex and Trans Invention of Gender: On Children's Self-Determination

Join us as Julian Gill-Peterson discusses the roots of the concept of gender in dehumanizing and unethical research and its overlap with the medicalization of intersex and transgender young people. Gill-Peterson will examine the question: "What could childhood gender self-determination really look like??" The Intersex and Trans Invention of Gender: On Children's Self-Determination - Read More…

The 57th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP57)