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The Obamas and the Aesthetics of Racial Transformation

Location: Palamountain Hall: Davis Auditorium

Date: 04/16/2012

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Speaker: Dr. Paul Taylor

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The Obamas and the Aesthetics of Racial Transformation

Barack Obama's ascension to the presidency raises a host of philosophical questions, the most obvious of which have to do with the present and future of US racial politics. Even if the US has not become post-racial in the way that some particularly bullish commentators once thought, some sort of change has definitely taken place.

This presentation will examine the current state and future prospects of racial transformation in the US through the lens of philosophical aesthetics. On the theory that aesthetic experiences often register our deepest preoccupations and constitute the soil in which ethical transformations take root, I propose to ask: what does racial transformation look like, and feel like, in Barack and Michelle Obama's America?

Sponsor:
Dept of Philosophy & Religion

Contact:
Ruby Grande
518-580-5400

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