CAS/MillerComm Lecture: "Social Meaning and Social Justice" by Sally Haslanger

• Event Date: Friday, March 14, 2014
• Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

"Social Meaning and Social Justice" Sally Haslanger Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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?

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Department of Philosophy in conjunction with the 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, and the Women and Gender in Global Perspective Program.