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The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College presents "Limits of Dissent?" on Thursday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.  This panel features Ward Churchill, University of Colorado at Boulder, speaking on "Some People Push Back"; Natsu Taylor Saito, Georgia State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, speaking on "Criminalizing Dissent:  The USA Patriot Act - Extending COINTELPRO"; and Richard Werner, The John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College, speaking on "Pragmatic Pacifism and Civil Disobedience." The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Kirkland Endowment.

Ward Churchill, a Keetoowah Band Cherokee, is an outspoken Native American scholar and a leading analyst of indigenous issues.  He is a professor of ethnic studies and coordinator of American Indian studies at the University of Colorado.  He also serves as associate director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the university.  He is co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.

Churchill's many books include Marxism and Native Americans, Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Agents of Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide:  Holocaust and Denial in the Americas.  In his lectures and published works, Churchill explores themes of genocide in the Americas; racism; historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization; environmental destruction of Indian lands; government repression of political movements; literary and cinematic criticism; and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.

Natsu Taylor Saito, J.D., is a professor of law at Georgia State University and associate professor of ethnic studies, University of Colorado.  She was involved in civil rights, community organizing and prison litigation before attending law school and now teaches race and the law, immigration, international human rights, and criminal procedure.  At the University of Colorado she teaches undergraduate courses on American Indian studies and race, ethnicity and the law, and immigration of racial minorities.  Her research focuses on the legal and political history of race and racial subordination in the United States.

Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College, teaches courses in ethics, ancient philosophy and social philosophy. He is the author of articles on ethical realism, pragmatism, just war theory and medical ethics including "Abortion: The Ontological and Moral Status of the Unborn," "Ethical Realism," "The Immorality of Nuclear Deterrence," "Civil Disobedience," "Reconceiving the Abortion Argument" and "An Analogical Argument for Stem Cell Research."  A past Tennent Caledonian Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, he has also been a recipient of a John Dewey Senior Research Fellowship. Werner received his doctorate from the University of Rochester. Werner served as chair of the philosophy department from 1990 to 1995 and as acting chair on several occasions.  His recent research interests center on issues relating to pragmatic pacificism, justification in ethics, and the ethics of killing (e.g. war, abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia).

This panel is free and open to the public.  For more information please contact the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.

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