LLP Keywords Series: Teresa Bejan on Equality

Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) Research GroupThe Language, Literature and Politics research group is a cross-faculty initiative, bringing together researchers from the School of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. The aim of the group is to investigate the relationship between language, literature (literary criticism and creative writing) and politics in the widest variety of contexts.

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Language, Literature and Politics Research Group (The Open University) Keywords Public Seminar Series 1/ 8: EQUALITY

The first seminar in the LLP Keywords series will be EQUALITY by Professor Teresa Bejan. Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. In 2021, Prof Bejan was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics, which celebrates early career researchers who have already achieved international recognition and with exceptional future promise.Professor Bejan’s research brings historical perspectives to bear on questions in contemporary political theory. She has written extensively on themes of free speech, civility, tolerance and equality in historical contexts ranging from ancient Athens to 20th-century analytic political philosophy.

This series of public talks takes inspiration from Raymond Williams's hugely influential 'Keywords' book to examine the terms and concepts that act as touchstones for today's society . Williams describes a keyword as one for which 'the problems of its meanings seem inextricably bound up with the problems it's being used to discuss.' So the act of defining the word is part of the process of exploring and arguing for the values that the concept represents. With speakers spanning disciplines from philosophy to political science and lexicography to literature, the series will look at how Williams's project is still highly valid today, and at what words - and the arguments around them - define society and culture in 2022.More information on the Language, Literature and Politics Research Group can be found <a href="https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/groups/llp" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>

For an introduction to the concept of Keywords and Raymond Williams&#x27;s thoughts about it, please see the video below

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