Public Lecture with Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University, "The Fragility of Life: Rethinking Abolition More Broadly"

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Date & Time Feb 12 2020 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Department Program in Law and Public Affairs-See P*LAW for future programming
Speaker(s)
Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Columbia University; Directeur d'études, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Audience Open to the Public

Please join the Program in Law and Public Affairs for a 4:30 talk with Bernard Harcourt on The Fragility of Life: Rethinking Abolition More Broadly. 

With the release of the movie Just Mercy and the opening of the Peace and Justice Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, many are rethinking capital punishment in the USA and the movement for abolition more broadly. In this workshop, Professor Harcourt will explore questions of innocence and injustice, and the new context of abolition today. 

Free and open to the public.

https://lapa.princeton.edu/content/fragility-life-rethinking-abolition-more-broadly
Sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs

More information: Contact Judi Rivkin, jrivkin@princeton.edu

Professor Harcourt will be speaking earlier in the day in the Interdisciiplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) Lunchtime Series 'counting/recounting' on the topic, Beyond the Will to Truth.

The lunch is open to graduate students with an RSVP to bleavey@princeton.edu.

https://ihum.princeton.edu/events/beyond-will-truth

Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist, social justice advocate, and the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books, 2018).