Backtalking to Save Democracy: An Evening with Kimberlé Crenshaw

Join us for a powerful evening with the brilliant Kimberlé Crenshaw! Dive into thought-provoking conversations about democracy, justice, and activism. It's going to be inspiring, eye-opening, and definitely a night to remember.

 

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. She was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory and is also known for introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality. She is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and the cofounder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum. Crenshaw writes regularly for The New Republic, The Nation, and Ms., hosts the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, and has appeared as a commentator on media outlets including MSNBC and NPR.

 

William Paris is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. He is one of the co-hosts of What’s Left of Philosophy? He received a PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 2018, and has served as the Frank B. Weeks Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Wesleyan University. From 2018-2020, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. He is also the author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press). In this manuscript, he brings together the work of Ernst Bloch, Rahel Jaeggi, and Rainer Forst as well as W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Delany, Frantz Fanon, and James Boggs to generate a novel critical theory of racial domination under capitalism as essentially the domination of time.