Philosophy Colloquium: Resisting Under Conditions of Oppression: Silencing and Protest by Jose Medina

Thursday, March 13, 2025
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students

Resisting injustice is not an easy thing to do under conditions of oppression. There are different ways in which protesting voices are silenced and their resistance against injustice is rendered invisible. This talk will critically examine the challenges that oppressed groups face when they try to protest injustices under conditions of communicative marginalization. The talk will discuss how silencing and social invisibility are resisted by social justice movements that advocate for the oppressed, and how oppressed subjects use public protest as a mechanism of epistemic self-empowerment.

José Medina is the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His research is in critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, political philosophy, and social epistemology. His books include The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Location Information

MAK-BLL-110, Mackinac Hall, Allendale Campus

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Contact Information

[email protected]

Hosting Department, Organization, or Business

CLAS Philosophy Department

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