Session 4: On Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: misogyny, equality, gender, democracy, with Seyla Benhabib (Yale/Columbia) and Nicola Lacey (LSE).
Session 4 will be held in person in Case Lounge and on Zoom.
The Democracy's Futures seminar, co-convened by Madhav Khosla (Law) and Jed Purdy (Law) for Spring 2022, is part of a university-wide initiative that seeks to illuminate and reinforce democratic commitments and practices by fostering engaged scholarship. The events of the last five years, and particularly those of the last year, have highlighted the ways that our most prized values and institutions may be unexpectedly shaken, and even come into mortal peril. They have also highlighted a certain complacency about democracy that had crept into what was too easily imagined as a settled system. We regard understanding and engaging these stakes as among the most important tasks of the university today.
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Register: In-person attendance or Zoom attendance
Session 4 will be held in person in Case Lounge in hybrid format.
For seminar readings see: Democracy's Futures
