As well as giving two public lectures, Rae Langton will lead a 2 day graduate workshop on RACE AND GENDER HATE SPEECH, and closely related topics. See Programme below.
The lectures are free and open to the public but require registration. Workshop registration is free for graduate students, but there are limited spaces - to register for the workshop and/or the lectures email: [log in to unmask] specifying which events you wish to register for.
****The deadline for registration is 6th January 2014****
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
Friday January 24th 2014 | Workshop and Public Lecture
Workshop | Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, Room 415
10.00–10.25 Arrival and registration
10.30–11.30 Another Form of Silencing | Charlotte Knowles (Birkbeck)
11.35–12.35 What’s (Morally) Wrong with Stereotyping | Erin Beeghly (Berkeley)
12.35–13.45 Lunch
13.45–14.45 Hate Speech, Generics and Linguistic Revision | James Kirkpatrick (Oxford)
14.45–15.15 Break
15.15–16.15 The Ethics of Metaphor | Rachel Fraser (Oxford)
16.15–16.30 Closing remarks
Lecture | Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, Room B33
18.00–18.15 Welcome
18.15–20.00 Speech Acts and Generics
Saturday January 25th 2014 | Workshop and Public Lecture
Workshop | Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, Room 415
10.00–11.00 Hateful Exclusions | Nicole Ramsoomair (McGill)
11.00–12.00 Slurs and Sluts: The Precarious Performative Structure of Reclamation Projects | Cassie Herbert (Georgetown)
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.00 Devolution Revoltion: Subordinating Hate Speech and the Problems of Authority | Kameron St. Clare (Sheffield)
14.00–15.00 They Will All Drown in the Depths of Things as they Are | Konstancja Duff (Sussex)
Lecture | Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, Room B35
16.00–18.00 Speech Acts and Epithets
Reception | Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street Room B02 & B04
18.00–21.00
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