Science of the Experience of Consciousness: An Hermeneutic Analysis of Freire’s Theory, Methodology, Political Pedagogy and the Role of Research
Feb 19, 2026 5:15 - 6:45 pm
Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
- Sponsor
- Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- Speaker
- Carlos Alberto Torres (Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles)
- Contact
- D. Fairchild Ruggles / Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- unit-for-criticism@illinois.edu
- Views
- 14
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
On February 19, 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. The lecture will take place at 5:15 PM at the Plym Auditorium in Temple Buell Hall. A reception will follow the lecture.