Five of the essays presented at last year’s Graduate Conference in Political Theory have been published online by the Franklin Humanities Institute as part of their Humanities Futures initiative. All five essays discuss “The Future of Political Theory.”
Charles Mills presented a paper entitled, “Racial Justice,” on November 16 at 4:00 in Gross Hall 330. Charles Mills is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He is the author of the seminal book, The Racial Contract (Cornell University Press, 1997). Most recently, he has published Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Christopher Lebron presented a paper titled: “Without the Loving Strains of Commitment.” Christopher Lebron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Color of our Shame: Race and Justice in our Time (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea (Oxford University Press, 2017). Professor Lebron’s talk will be in Gross Hall 330 at 4:00.
Kay Hymowitz spoke to undergraduates about her most recent book, The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Hymowitz is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of numerous books, including Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (Basic Books, 2011) and Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age (Ivan Dee, 2007).
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