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Join UAB and Jemison Visiting Professor Amia Srinivasan, Ph.D., University of Oxford, to discuss the #MeToo movement. The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host Amia Srinivasan, Ph.D., for a lecture exploring old and new questions pertaining to the #MeToo movement, as part of the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Endowment.
The free virtual event is set to take place Wednesday, April 21, from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, University of Oxford; she will lead a presentation followed by discussion. To attend the event, register online.
The event is sponsored by the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy.
The #MeToo movement prompts a reckoning with some old questions: Who should be believed, and why? How does racial injustice inflect the economy of belief? How does a sexual culture change — and is it fair to punish people according to “new” rules?
The movement also raises some new questions: What does due process look like in the age of social media? To what extent can sexual harassment serve as a feminist rallying cry in the age of late capitalism?
The UAB Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Endowment is a lecture series that invites professors, scholars and writers to speak to faculty, staff, students, alumni and the public.