
Truth, Justice and Racial Equality
Glenn Loury | September 27, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Glenn Loury | September 27, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Alice Dreger | October 10, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Beth Truesdale '97 | November 13, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
John M. Barry | February 27, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Ding, Joy Dantong Ma, and Xiao Qiang | March 4, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Debates about race, gender, and other social issues that have roiled the academy recently raise questions, at least implicitly, about the nature and purpose of higher education. Is higher education essentially about free and open inquiry in pursuit of truth or is it about the promotion of social justice? Are truth and justice always compatible ideals? Some have argued that these ideals can conflict and that the academy’s central telos is the pursuit of truth even at the expense of justice. Others have proposed that there is no real conflict between truth and justice, that truth requires justice and vice versa. Still others say that “truth” is a social construction that invites deconstruction for the sake of justice.
A community discussion of this theme was inaugurated in a faculty seminar hosted by the Institute last July on “Liberal Arts, Academic Freedom, Truth and Social Justice.” Here is a link to the article: https://stolaf.edu/news/faculty-seminar-examines-truth-justice-and-discrimination.
Truth, Justice and Racial Equality
A conversation with Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown and host of the Glenn Show podcast
Friday, September 27, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280
Truth, Justice and the Science of Gender
A conversation with Alice Dreger, writer, historian, and journalist and author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice
Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280
Truth, Justice, and America’s Aging Workforce
A conversation with Beth Truesdale ’97, a sociologist who studies economic inequality, labor markets, health, and public policy
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Viking Theater
Pandemics, China, and the Coronavirus
A conversation with award-winning and New York Times best-selling author John M. Barry, whose books have involved him in two areas of policy-making, preparedness and resilience. Mr. Barry will discuss pandemics, China, and the Coronavirus.
Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280
China: Big Data, AI, and Privacy
A moderated panel on the computer science statistical tools and methods used by the Chinese government to track citizen activities. Panel includes Director and Research Scientist of the Counter-Power Lab at Berkeley Xiao Qiang, Rhodes Scholar and Researcher at the University of Oxford Jeffrey Ding, and former Associate Director of the Think Tank at the Paulson Institute Joy Dantong Ma.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280
The State of the Presidential Election
Monday, March 16, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280
U.S.-China Relations Today
Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280
Freedom and Coercion in China
Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Tomson Hall 280