Events at Reed

Dr. Al Frankowski is an assistant professor of philosphy at Northeastern Illinois University and will be on campus to discuss his new book, The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourning, which demonstrates how post-racial discourse and post-racial memory operates as a context through which the memorialization of anti-black violence and the production of new forms of violence are connected. By challenging many tenants of the critical turn in political philosophy and aesthetics, Dr. Frankowski argues against a politics of reconciliation and for a political sense of mourning that amplifies the universality of violence embedded in our contemporary sensibility. Sponsored by the Department of Honor Process & Restorative Justice, the Multicultural Resource Center, and the Office for Institutional Diversity.

For more information on Reed's Black History Month events, visit our website.