Political Philosopher Wendy Brown Speaks Wednesday

November 6, 2007

November 6, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - Noted political philosopher Wendy Brown will come to the campus of DePauw University on Wednesday, November 7, to present the Walker Horizon Lecture in Political Science. Brown, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss "Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy," at 6:30 pm in the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media's Watson Forum. The program is free and open to all.

"'Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy' is a theoretical consideration of the paradox of the growing phenomenon of physical walls -- around nation states but also within them -- in the context of powers that are globalized and miniaturized," says Dr. Brown of her lecture topic.

While at DePauw, Brown also will have a lunch discussion with students about neoliberalism and neoconservatism on Thursday at 11 a.m. Space is limited. Interested students can send an e-mail to nightenhelser@gmail.com.

Professor Brown's books include Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory; Politics Out of History; Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics; and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire.

To learn more about Wendy Brown, click here.

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