You are cordially invited to attend the 36th Annual Hanna Lectures featuring Professor Tommie Shelby.
Professor Shelby is Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Harvard University Press, 2016), which won the Spitz Prize from the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, and the 2016 Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. He is also the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard University Press, 2005). He and Derrick Darby coedited Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Open Court, 2005). Shelby and Brandon M. Terry coedited To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Professor Shelby's most recent book is The Idea of Prison Abolition (Princeton University Press, 2022), of which is based on his 2018 Carl G. Hempel Lectures at Princeton University. The book was co-winner of the Easton Award from the Foundations of the American Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association.
Professor Shelby will give two lectures on the theme "Doing the Right Thing":
First Lecture: Resisting Racial Stereotypes - Thursday, April 3, 7.30 p.m., Sundin Music Hall
Second Lecture: Intellectual Freedom and the Political Ethics of the Oppressed: Lessons from Richard Wright - Friday, April 4, 11:30 a.m., Sundin Music Hall
These events are free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you at the lectures.