Dear All, This is a reminder that the next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club (and the final meeting of Michaelmas Term) will take place tomorrow (Tuesday 28 November) from 2.30-4.15 pm in the Barbara White room of Newnham College. Laura Valentini (LSE) will present a paper entitled "On Public-Identity Disempowerment". Here is the abstract:
It is well known that social disempowerment can follow from the ascription of certain identities, such as gender, race, ethnic, or religious identities. In this paper, I put the spotlight on a related, but different form of disempowerment, which affects the processes leading to the ascription of those identities. This is the disempowerment suffered by those who are deprived of adequate control over how they are publicly perceived. I call this phenomenon public-identity disempowerment. I offer a framework for analysing this form of disempowerment, explain why it is wrongful, and show that it lies at the heart of otherwise rather different social phenomena, including bullying, cultural exclusion, statistical discrimination, and positive as well as negative stereotyping. Club members who attend the talk are welcome to join us for dinner with Laura Valentini later the same evening. Those who wish to do so should email to express their interest in doing so by no later than noon today (Monday 27 November), and we will contact them with details in due course. Best wishes Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
