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Paulo Freire Lecture: Science of the Experience of Consciousness

Feb 19, 2026   5:15 pm  
Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Lecture
Sponsor
Unit for Criticism and College of Education
Contact
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
E-Mail
unit-for-criticism@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and former director of UCLA's Latin American Center, will give a lecture celebrating the extraordinary humanitarian career of Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he analyzed the analogous relationship of colonizer and colonized to that of teacher and student. Torres is the leading expert on Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher of ethics in education.

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