Speaker
Julian Go is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (Oxford, 2016). He is the winner of Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology given by the American Sociological Association and former President of the Social Science History Association.
Description
This is an inaugural lecture which introduces a brand new series of events within the Department of Sociology and Criminology, here at City. The name of this new series of events: What Knowledge? Whose Freedom? What Society? corresponds to the nature and content of the scholarship that the department espouses, with these events functioning as opportunities to ask critical questions about what knowledge/scholarship, freedom/liberation and society/collectively mean to us and how to achieve them through our research, writing and public engagement. Intent on creating a dialogue amongst members of the department, invited guests and those joining us, we hope to explore the relationship between knowledge production and social change at the service of social justice.