Friday, March 22, 11am-12:30pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

Complexities of social identities are increasingly a subject of political and social discourse. How should these identities, and the civic conversations about them, be appropriately understood and engaged? For many people, a challenging aspect of this question rests in the tension between believing that social identities related to, say, gender and sexuality are often matters of public concern (perhaps especially so when linked to calls for social and/or political justice) even while they are understood as intimately private and personal. Additionally, some of these social identities are commonly thought to be socially constructed by members of the public even while they are understood as rightly private and determined by the individual. How might we improve our understanding of these and related dimensions of our social identities?

Join us as Robin Dembroff (Yale University) and Jay Sosa (Bowdoin College) engage these issues in a rich conversation moderated by Erin Moore (The Ohio State University). Together, we invite you to explore what might be at stake in our collective understanding of gender and sexual identities as public and/or private phenomena in our society.

This event is part of CEHV’s 2023-24 COMPAS Directions program.

Speakers

• Robin Dembroff (Philosophy, Yale University)

• Jay Sosa (Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College)

• Erin Moore, moderator (Anthropology, The Ohio State University)

Hosted by OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values [CEHV].