The Sarah L. Hoagland Speaker Series
Northeastern’s Department of Philosophy invites the University community and general public to attend their annual Inspiring TriVia: The Sarah L. Hoagland Speaker Series on Thursday, April 20 from 3-5 p.m. in Alumni Hall on the Main Campus.
This year’s lecture, “Du Bois and the ‘Souls of White Folk’” will be given by Robert J. Gooding-Williams, Ph.D., a professor of Philosophy and African and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Gooding-Williams is also the son of former Northeastern President Ronald Williams, who served the University from 1976 until his passing in 1985.
This presentation is an analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’s moral psychology of white supremacy. Du Bois means his moral psychology to serve two purposes. The first is a social scientific explanation—specifically, the social scientific explanation of the domination and exploitation of the world’s darker peoples. The second is to articulate the Christian white supremacist’s ideal conception of his life as a Christian, for it is in virtue of this conception that the Christian white supremacist is vulnerable to moral appeal.
For questions, please contact John Casey at j-casey1@neiu.edu.
Northeastern’s Department of Philosophy invites the University community and general public to attend their annual Inspiring TriVia: The Sarah L. Hoagland Speaker Series on Thursday, April 20 from 3-5 p.m. in Alumni Hall on the Main Campus.
This year’s lecture, “Du Bois and the ‘Souls of White Folk’” will be given by Robert J. Gooding-Williams, Ph.D., a professor of Philosophy and African and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Gooding-Williams is also the son of former Northeastern President Ronald Williams, who served the University from 1976 until his passing in 1985.
This presentation is an analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’s moral psychology of white supremacy. Du Bois means his moral psychology to serve two purposes. The first is a social scientific explanation—specifically, the social scientific explanation of the domination and exploitation of the world’s darker peoples. The second is to articulate the Christian white supremacist’s ideal conception of his life as a Christian, for it is in virtue of this conception that the Christian white supremacist is vulnerable to moral appeal.
For questions, please contact John Casey at j-casey1@neiu.edu.
