Bard College’s Second Annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency to Be Held on October 19
Wendy Brown, UPS Foundation professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, will deliver the lecture. Photo by WB Damon Young
The talk will explore how the crises of both democracy and ecology that beset us today can only be addressed by considering how both overlap. With a focus on the money and power behind the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, a police and fire services training campus in Georgia, the lecture will examine the parameters of political repair that could address this overlap.
The annual lecture is supported by the President’s Office, the Office of the Dean of the College, and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Wendy Brown is a political theorist who works across the history of political thought, political economy, Continental philosophy, cultural theory, and critical legal theory. Brown investigates the subterranean powers shaping contemporary Euroatlantic polities, with particular attention to the political identities, subjectivities, and expressions they spawn. She is the author or coauthor of a dozen books, including States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity; Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire; Walled States, Waning Sovereignty; Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution; and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. Across her work, Brown aims to illuminate powers unique to our era and the predicaments they generate for democratic thought and practice.
Stuart Stritzler-Levine, professor emeritus of psychology and dean emeritus, died in May 2020. Stritzler-Levine, who joined the Bard faculty in 1964 and devoted 56 years of continuous service to Bard, was dean of the College from 1980 to 2001. In those 21 years he oversaw innovations in the admission process, particularly the Immediate Decision Plan; the rapid growth of Bard’s enrollment and curriculum; and the College’s expansion into graduate education. He served as Dean of Studies at Bard High School Early College Manhattan from 2003 to 2009, then returned to teaching at Bard and at Simon’s Rock.
Post Date: 09-28-2023