Philosophers on Contemporary Issues
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Richard C. Taylor is now a Cooperating Partner* in the Jena University DFG-Research Training Group 2792: Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. "The interdisciplinary research training group investigates texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages which consciously depend on other texts and are in this sense ‚heteronomous’. To these phenomena belong commentaries, paraphrases and synopses as well as handbooks, lexica, chronicles, summaries, anthologies, and retold novels. Such texts have made a decisive contribution to the development of culture and science in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They will be studied interdisciplinary with regard to how they process by selecting and actualizing their pre-texts on various levels– scientific, cultural, formal, aesthetic – to constitute a unique form of textual ‘autonomy’.” The Group will fund up to 24 doctoral researchers.
*The cooperating partners may be asked to accept responsibility as an external member of a 3-persons-committee ("Mentorat") which will supervise each PhD project, or to contribute to the study program by giving lectures or courses according to the topics and wishes of our doctoral students.
- Dr. Stephanie Rivera Berruz discussed the presence of anti-blackness in the European colonial history of Latin America and how relations between the Black and Latino races can continue to improve following growing Latino support for Black Lives Matter. "This history, when we look at it more closely, we recognize that race, the valuation of people based on their phenotypes, where the lighter you are is valued over the darkness of skin, is really produced by the colonial project in order to justify itself,” Rivera Berruz said. The story aired on WUWM-FM (89.7), Feb. 4, 2021.
- Read Dr. Stephanie Rivera Berruz's open letter to Marquette University regarding racial justice
- Dr. Stephanie Rivera Berruz wrote about the meaning and impact of the ongoing protests against police brutality in Milwaukee
- Read Dr. Grant's blog entry, The Lives that Matter in the Prevailing Social Order, for the American Philosophical Association
- Associate Professor Grant Silva, Coordinator of Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies (REIS) was interviewed about the 2019-2020 REIS Cluster Hire