Disasters and Social Change
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- CAS MillerComm hosted by Department of Philosophy
- Location
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
- Date
- Sep 17, 2024 3:00 pm
- Speaker
- Jordan Pascoe, George A. Miller Visiting Scholar, Professor of Philosophy, Manhattan College
- Cost
- Free and open to the public
- Views
- 155
- Originating Calendar
- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change- in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change, and how disaster policy can shape that social change.