What are the challenges that oppressed groups face when they try to protest under conditions of communicative marginalization? This talk will analyze the different ways in which protests are silenced, and different ways of resisting such silencing. Elucidating the proper or improper uptake that publics give to protests, the talk will discuss the kind of communicative solidarity that we owe to social justice movements that advocate for the oppressed. An argument will be given for the special communicative obligations that we have toward oppressed protesting publics that have been silenced.
Website: https://philosophy.northwestern.edu/people/continuing-faculty/medina-jose.html
Dr. José Medina is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, with affiliations in African American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese. His primary fields of expertise are critical philosophy of race, feminist and queer theory, social epistemology, and political philosophy. Medina has published five monographs, five edited (or co-edited) volumes, and seventy articles and book chapters. His latest book, The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance, came out with Oxford University Press in 2023. Previous books include The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations (Oxford University Press, 2013), recipient of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award.
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Lawrence Ware is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Oklahoma State University. He is also the associate director of Africana Studies at the university. In addition to being a professor, he is also a writer. He began writing for blogs in the early 2010s, and since 2016 he has been a regular contributor to the Huffington Post as an op-ed writer and to Slate writing about film and TV. Since 2017, he is a regular contributor to The New York Times, writing on film and pop culture. His writing on film at Slate and The New York Times has gotten him labeled as a Top Critic with Rotten Tomatoes.
