Victims, Victims Everywhere - Kirby Center

Hillsdale College
invites you to a lecture hosted by the Kirby Center
Victims, Victims Everywhere:
Trigger Warnings, Liberty,
and the Academy
Christina Hoff Sommers
Resident Scholar
American Enterprise Institute
Thursday, May 28, 2015
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
227 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, D.C. 20002
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lunch will be provided
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The AWC Family Foundation
The AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series addresses political, historical, and economic topics from a constitutional perspective.
College is intended to be a place of open and honest discourse in
pursuit of truth. But all too often today, it is a place where politically
correct groups bully those with opposing views into silence. In addition
to undermining free speech and academic freedom, recent talk of
“trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” encourages a crippling mentality
of victimhood. Where did this hypersensitivity come from, and what
might we do to turn things around?
About the Speaker
Christina Hoff Sommers is
a resident scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute. She earned her
B.A. at New York University and
her Ph.D. in philosophy at Brandeis
University. From 1980 to 1999, she
was a philosophy professor at Clark University. She is the
author of several books, including Who Stole Feminism?,
The War Against Boys, and Freedom Feminism: Its
Surprising History and Why It Matters Today.
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