“Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and the Power of Hesitation: Interrupting Racializing Habits of Perception” talk by Alia Al-Saji
“Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and the Power of Hesitation: Interrupting Racializing Habits of Perception”
Dr. Alia Al-Saji
Associate Professor of Philosophy, McGill University
Thursday April 25
4:00 – 5:30 pm, Ford Alumni Center, Room 202
(On Thursday, she will be giving a phenomenological account of racializing perception and how it can be interrupted)
Friday April 26
11:00 am – 12:00 noon, PLC 314
(On Friday, she will be discussing her recent work on “The Racialization of Muslim Veils” which will expand on the research presented in Thursday’s colloquium talk and will involve her more specific work on racialization, cultural racism, and Muslim veiling; contact Beata Stawarska at stawarsk@uoregon.edu to obtain copies of the readings)
For more information about this event please contact Beata Stawarska at stawarsk@uoregon.edu