The Africana Studies Program presents its Fall Series on "Race," featuring Robert Bernasconi, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit. His talk is titled "Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois and The Conservation of Races."
Bernasconi is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has written extensively on political philosophy and on such figures as Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Derrida, and Fanon. He is co-editor of The Idea of Race (with Tommy Lott), editor of Race (Blackwell. 2001), and editor of a projected 54 volume series of books to be published by Thoemmes Press illustrating the history of the scientific concept of race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of which the first 8 volumes have
already been published.
Bernasconi is the first guest lecturer in the two-part series. His lecture is co-sponsored by the department of Philosophy. A reception will follow the lecture at The Red Pit.
