Third Annual Carus Lecture at Concordia

Thursday, September 17
7:30 pm
Centrum, Knutson Campus Center, Concordia College, Moorhead

Concordia College will present the third annual Carus Lecture in Philosophy, “Disrupting Injustice: Implicit Bias and Structural Change,” featuring Dr. Sally Haslanger at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center.

In spite of the important U.S. civil rights accomplishments of the 1960s-70s, many forms of injustice persist. Recently, implicit bias has been heralded as a key factor beyond bigotry and formal discrimination that keeps us from achieving social justice. Haslanger will discuss implicit bias and that changing social structures are a precondition for changing patterns of thought and action. She’ll talk about developing different sorts of narratives that address not only the question “What can/should I do?” but also “What can/should we do?”
Haslanger is the Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds the 2015 Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

Concordia College created the Carus Professorship in Philosophy and the Carus Lectureship in recognition of gifts from the charitable trusts established by M. Elisabeth Carus and her brother Alwin C. Carus. The Carus’ grew up at LaSalle, Ill., and attended the University of Chicago, where Alwin established strong, lifelong connections that represented his deep interests in philosophy, science and religion.

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