*Postponed due to Public Health Emergency* Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion with Professor Ruth Chang

*Due to the current Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, this event will be postponed to Hilary Term 2021. Please check back for additional information.*

Discussion 

On Tuesday, May 12th, 2020, Professor Chang will present a feminist text and will then lead an open discussion. The discussion will be held at St. Hilda's College (room to be confirmed) from 12:00-1:30 p.m. 

About the Speaker

Professor Ruth Chang is the Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence and a Professorial Fellow of University College. Before coming to Oxford, she was Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in New Jersey, USA. Before that, she was a visiting philosophy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting law professor at the University of Chicago. During this period she also held a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College where she was completing her D.Phil. in philosophy. She has held fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and the National Humanities Center and serves on boards of a number of journals. She has a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her expertise concerns philosophical questions relating to the nature of value, value conflict, decision-making, rationality, the exercise of agency, and choice. Her work has been the subject of interviews by various media outlets in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand, and Austria, and she has been a consultant or lecturer for institutions ranging from video gaming to pharmaceuticals to the CIA and World Bank.

About the Discussion Group

The Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group also welcomes offers to present papers or other work-in-progress to the group, or to lead an open discussion. Please contact one of the convenors if you are interested in talking to the group or if you have an idea for an informal discussion.

The group’s co-convenors are Sabrina Golds, Sophia Demetriou-Jones, and Stacy Topouzova, and the Group's Senior Member is Dr. Barbara Havelkova.