Wednesday, April 22, 2020
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Commentators: Barrymore A Bogues, Brown University Uday Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY, is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions. He has worked on a range of issues including the relationship between freedom and imagination, liberalism’s complex link with colonialism and empire, and, more recently, war, peace, and nonviolence. He is the author of The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke (1992) and Liberalism and Empire: Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought (1999), which won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association in 2001 for the best book in history and theory. In 2002, he was named a Carnegie Foundation scholar.He received his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Princeton University. Prior to arriving at CUNY, he was Clarence Francis Professor in the Social Sciences at Amherst College.