Cornel West: "Speaking Truth to Power"

A discussion on Institutional Provincialism with Dr. Cornel West and the MIT community from February 8, 2018.

Program:

Welcome & Introduction: Mr. Ty Austin (SA+P, GSC DIS Chair)

Keynote: Dr. Cornel West (Harvard) (3:28)

Discussion (43:10)
Professor Ceasar McDowell (SA+P), Moderator,
Ms. Joy Buolamwini (PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab)
Professor Jennifer Light (SA+P, SHASS),
Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock (SHASS)

Closing Remarks: Dr. Duane Lee (MLK Visiting Scholar, SoS) (1:57:05)

This event was sponsored by:
Institute of Community and Equity Office (ICEO)
Media Lab and Program in Media Arts & Sciences (ML, MAS)
Office of Graduate Education (OGE)
Presidential Committee on Race and Diversity (CRD)
School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)
School of Engineering (SoE)
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS)
School of Science (SoS)
Sloan School of Management (Sloan)

Hosted by:
GSC Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee (DIS)

Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.

He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.

This video documents a free public event held at MIT on February 8, 2018, 5-7PM. Learn more at MIT News: http://mitsha.re/ojSW30ilCwX

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