Although the Women’s Movement and the Civil Rights Movement achieved great gains in the 20th century, it is also true that our societies remain unjustly stratified.
Individual and institutional injustice are just the tip of the iceberg: they are the expression of deeper and less tractable sources of inequality in social meaning. But what exactly is social meaning?  How does social meaning give rise to injustice?  And how can we change social meanings?

The Philosophy Annual Lecture

Hosted by: Department of Philosophy

In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of the Classics, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of English, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Latino/Latina Studies, Department of Linguistics, Department of Religion, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Spurlock Museum, Women and Gender in Global Perspective Program