2015–16 Justice

James Braxton Peterson, Africana Studies and English, Lehigh University. “A Song, A Slogan, and A Service: Dispatches from the Movement for Black Lives.” 

Naomi Klein, author, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.”

Curt Tofteland, founder and director, Shakespeare Behind Bars. “We Know Who We Are But Not Who We May Be.” in Eugene; “The Villainy You Teach Me: Mercy Seasoned with Justice or Mercy Seasoned with Revenge?” in Portland.

Hendrik Hartog, History of American Law and Liberty, Princeton Universtiy. “Justice and Dilemmas of Gradual Emancipation: A Case of Arson in 1815”

Lori Gruen, Philosophy and Animal Studies, Wesleyan University. Author of Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethics for our Relationships with Other Animals (2015).“Justice and Empathy Beyond the Human.”

Ben Fountain, author, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”An Evening with Ben Fountain.”