Events

Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Fabienne Moore, associate professor of French, collaborated on a newly published book The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonization (Polity, 2024), a translation of essays and speeches by prolific anticolonial writer, poet, and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade. The two scholars will […]

Brooke Burns, PhD candidate, Philosophy and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow.   My dissertation clarifies how dignity, as an ethical principle, has historically animated anti-cruelty reform movements in prisons and zoos. To do so, I deploy a politically realist genealogy, which is a historical-philosophical method based on the premise that ethical principles are more likely to […]