Professor Charles W. Mills Opens Lecture Series on Race

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Professor Charles W. Mills Opens Lecture Series on Race

September 16, 2010

The University of King’s College is proud to present a lecture by Professor Charles W. Mills, entitled “Race and Liberalism,” on Thursday September 16 at 7 p.m. in the New Academic Building, King’s Campus, 6350 Coburg Road.

Professor Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. His first book, The Racial Contract (Cornell, 1997), won a Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of racial prejudice in North America and has been used widely as a text in courses at schools across the United States and Canada. He has since published two other works, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell, 1998), and Contract and Domination (Polity Press, 2007), as well as a number of articles and book chapters. Currently he is working on a collection of Caribbean essays, Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class, and Social Domination. 

“Charles Mills’ study The Racial Contract was groundbreaking,” says Lecture Series coordinator, Dr. Dorota Glowacka. “It revealed the logic of racial domination as it has inhered in the fundamental texts of Western philosophy, and in social and political institutions.
With his work on conjunctions of race, class, and gender, Professor Mills is a leading voice in the discussions on race and racism today.”

The lecture is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. It is presented by the King’s Contemporary Studies Programme, the Early Modern Studies Programme, and the History of Science and Technology Programme.

The Lecture Series “Conceptions of Race in Philosophy, Literature and Art” examines how the notion of race and the phenomenon of racism have developed in the Western tradition. The speakers will examine the works of prominent philosophers, writers and artists, illuminating the origins of contemporary ways of thinking about race. Public lectures will continue throughout the academic year until March 22 and will feature an array of nationally and internationally renowned speakers and artists.

For a complete schedule of Lecture Series on Race speakers, click here.