The Visiting Scholars Speaker Series will host Dr. Winston C. Thompson for a special talk on "The Ethics of Punishment and Identity in Educational Contexts." The talk will be held in 355–56 Stiteler. Dinner will be provided.
About the Speaker
Dr. Thompson is a professor of philosophy of education and (by courtesy) philosophy at The Ohio State University. His scholarship focuses upon normative ethical and social/political questions of justice, education, and the public good, with recent efforts analyzing dilemmas of educational policy. Currently, Dr. Thompson is working on enlarging the mainstream view of the relationship between education and politics in order to ask what is owed to persons and polities as a matter of educational rather than only political justice. In this project, he focuses upon enduring issues of race and immigration. Read more about Dr. Thompson.
About This Year's Series
The theme of this year's series is Punishment and Education. Schools and other educational spaces rely on myriad modes of punishment to establish restrictive institutional cultures and deter individual and collective acts of resistance. As the stakes for noncompliance intensify under increasingly authoritarian state legislatures, university boards of directors, and federal agencies, how can we make sense of—and perhaps push back against—the evolving landscape of punishment in K-12 schools and higher education?