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VIRTUAL EVENT: Monumental changes: The civic harm argument for the removal of Confederate monuments
20 January 2021, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
In this webinar, Winston C. Thompson and Timothy J. Barczak from Ohio State University will provide a definition of monuments and describe their potential for sparking removalist and preservationist controversy.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Alison Brady
In the talk, Thompson and Barczak will focus on the example of Confederate monuments in the US as, on the basis of racist impacts, these monuments are candidates for widespread removal.
They will review influential existing philosophical arguments aimed at clarifying this controversy. They will draw attention to an especially promising formulation of a moral harm argument, and will improve upon this by offering an educationally sensitive civic harm argument.
In this, they advance a view of limited compatibility between removalist and preservationist aims.
Links
- Tweet with #philofed
- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: RVA Counter-Protests Against New-CSA by Mobilus In Mobili via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
About the Speakers
Winston C. Thompson
Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Studies and the Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University.
Thompson's scholarship explores ethical, moral, and political dimensions of educational policy and practice.
Timothy J. Barczak
Doctoral student in philosophy and history of education at Ohio State University
Barczak is exploring questions surrounding communication and the civic, political, and economic aims of education relative to their impacts on democracy.