Events
DANIELLE ALLEN: EQUALITY AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Date and Time
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Description
Presented by GVSU's Hauenstein Center. Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics.
Political philosopher Danielle Allen is author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Norton, 2014). Using the Declaration's own wording, she will offer an argument for equality in the American experience.
Dr. Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. A MacArthur Fellowship recipient, she is widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America.
Other works include The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (Princeton, 2000); Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (U. Chicago, 2004), and Education and Equality (U. Chicago, 2016). A former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Mellon Foundation, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
WHEN: November 6th, 2019, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
WHERE: DeVos Center, 122E - Loosemore Auditorium
The event is free but an RSVP is required at the Hauenstein Center website.
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