2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: When Black Lives Matter-The Ethics of Race, Crime and Punishment in America

by | Mar 24, 2016

2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government

Professor Glenn Loury (Brown University)

Title: “When Black Lives Matter: The Ethics of Race, Crime and Punishment in America”

Professor Glenn Loury will deliver the 2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government on Wednesday May 25, at 5pm, Magdalen College, Grove Theatre

The Lee Lectures are funded thanks to the generosity of Dr. Lee. Past lecturers have included  Nancy Rosenblum,  Eliot Cohen, Elinor Olstrom, and Alasdair Roberts.

Professor Loury is an academic economist who has made scholarly contributions to the fields of welfare economics, income distribution, game theory, industrial organization, and natural resource economics. He is also a prominent social critic and public intellectual, having published over 200 articles in journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad on the issues of racial inequality and social policy. Loury is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past Vice President of the American Economics Association. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic magazine. Among the issues Loury studies are racial affirmative action; dysfunctional social identity; status transmission across generations; and cognitive theories of racial stigma. He also writes popular essays on social and political themes as a public intellectual.

In this lecture, he will revisit some of the themes he first addressed in his 2006-2007 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University, on racial stigma, mass incarceration and human values.

All welcome.

 

 

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