Join us for the Inaugural Professorial lecture by Professor Radha D'Souza.
About the event
We live in times of perpetual crises: the climate crises, immigration and human displacement crises, nuclear wars, pandemics, bank collapses, job losses, disappearing biodiversity and much else. The expanding size and scale of these crises create ever-present anxieties about yet another impending apocalyptic event that could engulf our lives at any moment.
Drawing on her academic work, legal practice and social justice activism over the decades Professor Radha D’Souza will examine the reasons for the disappearance of the public intellectual in these apocalyptic times and the ramifications of it for the future. She will contrast the role of the public intellectual in European modernity, which is contingent on the existence of a ‘public sphere’, with the intellectual spaces in pre-modern non-European societies for those who oriented their knowledge towards the future of society and people. Her lecture will highlight the urgent need for social spaces that can sustain real intellectual freedoms that can shift the focus of knowledge beyond power to restoring the capacities for self-rule and self-determination of people.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception in the Regent Street foyer.
Location
This event takes place in Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW
