About the Spring ‘25 Line-Up
Below you can learn more about each of our upcoming speakers, as well as about their respective talks. For more details about each talk, see Schedule.
Shatema Threadcraft
Black Femicide and Toni Morrison and W.E.B. Du Bois’s Democratic Storytelling | January 28, 4 - 5:30 pm ET
Shatema Threadcraft is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press 2016).
Lionel McPherson
“Not Like Us”: Respect, Standing, and White Tribalism | February 11, 4 - 5:30 pm ET
Lionel McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical Search (Oxford University Press 2024).
Derrick Darby
Boxed In: Making Identities Safe for Democracy | March 25, 4 - 5:30 pm ET
Derrick Darby is the Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Boxed In: Making Identities Safe for Democracy (with Eduardo J. Martinez, Oxford University Press 2024).
Juliet Hooker
Forging (and Challenging) “a Tyrannical Public Opinion”: Du Bois and Terrel on Confederate Faithful Slave Monuments | April 8, 4 - 5:30 pm ET
Juliet Hooker is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton University Press 2023).
Ronald Sundstrom
The Dread of Tyrants: Frederick Douglass on Dignity and the Liberty of Thought and Expression | Tuesday, April 22, 4 - 5:30 pm ET
Ronald Sundstrom is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Just Shelter: Integration, Gentrification, and Race and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press 2023).