skip navigation
Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Just Theory lecture series: Christia Mercer, “Agency and Suffering: Women Then and Now”

October 17, 2016 - October 19, 2016

October 17, 18, and 19

Just Theory Capen Lecture Series on “Agency and Suffering:  Women Then and Now”

All lectures begin at 4pm.

Christia Mercer, Columbia University, presents three talks over three days.

Monday, October 17
“Meditating on Truth:  How women changed the course of philosophy 1300-1600 and laid the groundwork for Descartes’ Meditations”

Tuesday, October 18
“Early modern women, suffering and agency:  The Case of Anne Conway  (1631-79)”

Wednesday, October 19
“Race, Gender, and Suffering in the Prison Industrial Complex”

Details

Start:
October 17, 2016
End:
October 19, 2016

Organizer

Dept. of Comparative Literature

Venue

640 Clemens Hall