The Department of Gender & Race Studies presents:

Politics and Democracy

A Lecture Series for 2018 and 2019

Lisa Guenther is Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and

Critical Prison Studies at Queen’s University in Canada. She is the author of

Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013) and co-editor of

Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2015).

From 2012-17, she facilitated a discussion group with men on death row in

Tennessee called REACH Coalition. She is currently working on two projects:

1) a critical phenomenology of carceral space, and 2) a feminist analysis of

the relation between incarceration, reproductive politics, and settler

colonialism in Canada, Australia, and the United States.

Please join us at the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the

University of Alabama for an exciting lecture presented by the Departments

of Gender & Race Studies, American Studies, Criminal Justice, and Philosophy,

as well as University Programs, the Blount Scholars Program, and the Arts &

Sciences Dean’s Office.

This lecture will be open to University of Alabama faculty, students, and the general public.

Thursday, October 4th / ten Hoor 30 / 3:30-5:00 pm

“Police, Drones, and the

Politics of Perception”

presented by Lisa Guenther