Glasgow Gifford Lectures 2018: Judith Butler

This prestigious lecture series is organised by the Gifford bequest committee at theUniversity of Glasgow.TheGifford Lecturesare an annual series of public talks which were established in 1887 by the will ofAdam Lord Gifford. The endowment supports lecture series at the universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews.  The first set of lectures on Natural, Physical, Anthropological and Psychological Religion or Theosophy was delivered at Glasgow byFriedrich Max Müller between 1888-1892. The long list of notable speakers delivering Gifford Lectures at Glasgow since the late 1880s includesJ. S. Haldane(1927-28),Carl Sagan(1985),Mary Warnock(1992),Vilayanur Ramachandran (2012), Jean-Luc Marion(2014),Judith Butler(2018) andT. J. Clark(2020).A list of all lectures delivered at the four universities can be foundhere.

Glasgow Gifford Bequest Committee

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Note: the current initial allocation of tickets has been exhausted, as has the second allocation for the larger venue. And the third allocation for the reconfigured larger venue (Bute Hall).  Even our waiting-list is full to capacity.  All of the tickets are gone.
Note: Because we are now using a reconfigured venue with a larger capacity, we have had to push back the start time of the lectures.  They now start at 18:30 on each evening.
Tickets are for the whole series of three lectures.
<H2>Judith Butler on Inequality and the Philosophy of Non-Violence</H2>
Abstract: ‘What does inequality have to do with non-violence?’  These lectures will suggest that a philosophy of non-violence has to take into account forms of inequality that value certain lives more highly than others. So the task is to develop a philosophy of non-violence that allows the moral questions usually associated with non-violent practice to be seen as bearing on questions of political inequality as well.  The purpose would be to show that the defence of non-violence cannot be successful if it does not take this kind of differential valuing of life into account, which means that a philosophy of non-violence is only possible within a broader commitment to equality.  These questions bear as well on the concepts of grievable and ungrievable life that Professor Butler has developed elsewhere as well as a conception of livable life at work in her critique of precarity. 
 
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