Time: Noon -1:30 pm
Location: Whetten Grad. Center, Room 200
Each month faculty and staff members are invited to give an interactive lecture on “lessons learned” during their journey in and outside of academia. At the conclusion of the lecture graduate students engage faculty in an informal question and answer session. Please bring your lunch, a friend and plenty of questions. This is guaranteed to be a great time!
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-pD0zHv0t7qH6MySxgvTM8VwXyVc9sYLfwVT5gKcJf…Speaker Biography:
http://www.polisci.uconn.edu/people/faculty/?jane_gordon
Jane Gordon is Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. She is a specialist in political theory, with a focus on modern and contemporary political theory, Africana political thought, theories of enslavement, political theories of education, methodologies in the social sciences, and political theory in film and literature. Her first book,
Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville (RoutledgeFalmer 2001), was listed by the
Gotham Gazette as one of the four best recent books on civil rights. She is co-editor with Lewis R. Gordon of
The Companion to African American Studies (Blackwell Publishers, 2006), which was the NetLibrary Book of the Month in February 2007, and
Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). She is also the co-author of
Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2009). She is also co-author of
Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) and author of
Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Fordham UP, 2014). She has written chapters for several anthologies on political thought and Africana studies, and her articles have appeared in such journals as the
C.L.R. James Journal;
differences;
Journal of Asian and African Studies; Journal of Contemporary Thought; Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy;
Journal of Political Theology;
Performance Research;
Philosophical Studies in Education;
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; and
SOULS. Her recent essay, which is the core of her next book project, “Theorizing Contemporary Practices of Enslavement: A Portrait of the Old and New,” won the American Political Science Association 2012 Foundations in Political Theory Best Paper Prize. She is the President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.