Speech Acts in the Age of Normalized Violence: Understanding truth and meaning-making in the fight for social justice

Hosted Thursday, Feb 13th, 2020 | 12-2pm -| HAR 201

Natasha Lennard is a journalist and essayist. She is a columnist for The Intercept, editor for the Commune Magazine, and her work has appeared regularly in The Nation, Esquire, and The New York Times, among other.

She teaches critical journalism at the New School For Social Research in New York and is the author of Violence: Humans in Dark Times (City Lights 2018, with Brad Evans) and Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life (Verso Books 2019)

The event was sponsored by the Political Science Dept. and International Affairs Program.