[PhilosophyEvents] This Friday: Kirsten Pickering (UC Berkeley):

[Dan Hicks]

Hi everyone!

UCM Philosophy’s last colloquium talk of 2024 will be this Friday, December 6, with Kirsten Pickering: "Trust, Solidarity, and Academic Community in Prison”

Mount Tamalpais College's only campus exists inside San Quentin; its only students are incarcerated; its only program of study is an Associate degree in Liberal Arts. Like other college students, MTC students gain knowledge and strengthen core skills---such as writing clearly and thinking critically---through their studies, in a way valuable both in itself and in its effects. Yet given the lifelong experiences of social marginalization common among many MTC students, we may strive to bring about another valuable outcome of going to college: students, faculty, and college staff form an academic community, one that has the potential to support students and help them build a better life.

How much potential lies in such a community? For a community to combat social marginalization, it seems that a certain level of trust, perhaps even of solidarity, has to exist among its members. But what are the prospects for trust in a community made up of people with radically different levels of power?  This talk will discuss the role of trust in an academic community, and highlight how power imbalances might undermine trust in such a community.

The talk will start at 3:30pm in COB1 267 as usual, and a recording will be available on Youtube a couple of days after that.

Be well,
Dan
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Dan Hicks
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Merced

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