Tuesday 12 August 2014

Charles W. Mills Lecture at Wits: ‘Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism’

Department of Political Studies
Public Lecture
Professor Charles W. Mills
‘Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism’
Chair: Professor Lawrence Hamilton
Venue: The Senate Room
Second Floor, Senate House
Date: Thursday 21 August 2014
Time: 5:30 pm
(Refreshments will be served)
Please RSVP to Gillian.renshaw@wits.ac.za for catering purposes

Charles W. Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. He works in the general area of oppositional political theory, with a particular focus on race. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and five books: The Racial Contract (1997); Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998); From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003); Contract and Domination (with Carole Pateman) (2007); and Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (2010). He is currently working on a book collection of his recent articles.