The Ashby Lecture - Professor Susan Neiman: 'Why the Left is not Woke'

Thu 28 April 2022

Robinson College Auditorium

"I will discuss the ways in which contemporary voices who consider themselves leftist have abandoned philosophical ideas which are crucial to any leftwing standpoint: a commitment to universalism, a belief in the possibility of progress, and a firm distinction between power and justice. All these ideas are connected, as I’ll try to show, and have their roots in the much-maligned Enlightenment."

The Ashby Lecture will feature responses from a panel consisting of:

- Dr Christopher Brooke (Senior Lecturer in Political Theory; Fellow and Director of Studies in Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Emma Mackinnon (University Lecturer in History; Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)
- Professor Richard Bourke (Professor of the History of Political Thought; Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Lars Vinx (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Rebecca Buxton (Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Cambridge)
- Dr Samuel Zeitlin (Hong Kong Link Early Career Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Politics, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge)

Register for the Zoom version of this event via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/271056576517

To enquire about in-person spaces, please email Tam Marshall-Watts via college.registrar@clarehall.cam.ac.uk

Cost: Free