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"Carolina in My Mind: John Locke and the Defense of New World Slavery"
April 9th 2010, Friday, 2:00pm, Rooms C203-205
This public seminar with Robert Bernasconi investigates the controversy occasioned by the apparent contradiction between Locke’s personal involvement with the Atlantic slave trade in various guises and his rejection of hereditary slavery, while exploring the debate on slavery in the seventeenth century which established the essential context for any assessment of his contribution. Robert Bernasconi is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of, most recently, How to Read Sartre (2007), has authored two books on Heidegger, and edited numerous books on Levinas, Derrida, and the concept of race.

Registered seminar participants are welcome to join Professor Bernasconi and Kyoo Lee, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College and Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, at 4:00pm for a discussion of the suggested reading.